Sex and gender in lung health and disease: more than just Xs and Ys

Jason Weatherald; Renata L Riha; Marc Humbert

doi:10.1183/16000617.0217-2021

Sex and gender in lung health and disease: more than just Xs and Ys

Eur Respir Rev. 2021 Nov 8;30(162):210217. doi: 10.1183/16000617.0217-2021. Print 2021 Dec 31.

Authors

Jason Weatherald^{1

2}, Renata L Riha^{3

4}, Marc Humbert^{5

6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Medicine, Division of Respirology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada Jason.Weatherald@ahs.ca.
² Libin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
³ Dept of Sleep Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁴ Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine, Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.
⁶ INSERM UMR_S 999 (Pulmonary Hypertension: Pathophysiology and Novel Therapies), Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Le Plessis-Robinson, France.
⁷ Dept of Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine, French Pulmonary Hypertension Reference Center, Hôpital Bicêtre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.

Abstract

A new series explores the role of sex and gender-related factors in respiratory physiology, lung health, and across respiratory diseases https://bit.ly/3mP0BVF

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Humans
Lung*