Respiratory Diseases in Women
eBook - PDF

Respiratory Diseases in Women

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  1. 241 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Respiratory Diseases in Women

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About this book

This book offers an excellent overview of the present knowledge about sex and gender differences in the different domains of respiratory medicine and aims to contribute to a better "e;sex and gender perspective"e; on health and healthcare in clinical practice and research.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Guest editors
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction
  6. Philosophical introduction - As long as there is breath
  7. Chapter 1 - Sex differences in airway anatomy over human lifespan
  8. Chapter 2 - Gender differences in airway behaviour (physiology) over the human lifespan
  9. Chapter 3 - Gender differences in immunity over human lifespan
  10. Chapter 4 - Adherence with therapy for women with respiratory illnesses
  11. Chapter 5 - Differences between males and females in the natural history of asthma and COPD
  12. Chapter 6 - Gender differences in the natural history of pulmonary diseases
  13. Chapter 7 - Women and response to drugs
  14. Chapter 8 - Women and asthma
  15. Chapter 9 - Smoking and mortality in women: "smoke like a man, die (at least) like a man"
  16. Chapter 10 - The role of household exposures in lung disease among women
  17. Chapter 11 - Occupational lung disease in women
  18. Chapter 12 - Women and lung cancer: potential mechanisms of greater susceptibility to tobacco smoke
  19. Chapter 13 - Tuberculosis in women
  20. Chapter 14 - Women and interstitial lung diseases
  21. Chapter 15 - Women: lung and autoimmune disease
  22. Chapter 16 - Women and sleep-related disorders
  23. Chapter 17 - Women and pulmonary arterial hypertension
  24. Chapter 18 - Gender and respiratory infections
  25. Instructions to authors