How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice

How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice: A Personalized Approach to Patient Care, 2nd edition continues to provide content that can be readily utilized by the primary care clinician within their daily practice. The unique application framework assists practitioners in the application of sex and gender differences. It aligns sex and gender medicine with the emergence of precision medicine. Health care consumers are becoming increasingly aware of sex and gender issues related to their health and the clinicians who incorporate this approach into their practice attract an increasing number of patients who seek providers who "know the difference." This book fills an important need by applying the findings that uniquely characterize the male and female patient to protocols for optimal clinical care and the detection and prevention of disease. This second edition provides updated evidence-based information on disease prevalence, diagnosis, testing, and treatment, and covers new topics such as sex differences in thyroid disease, pain and hypertension. Chapters have been updated to reflect the influences of sex and gender on disease clinical presentation, physical examination, laboratory and imaging testing, treatment and prognosis, and how these differences impact clinical decision-making.