Allergy skin testing[/caption]Leanne Jenkins---When it comes to general health, one gender seems more prone than another to chronic illnesses, ending some of the debate over which sex is the healthier, men or women.
“More prepubescent males have rhinitis, asthma and food allergy than females,” said Renata Engler, MD, allergist and ACAAI Fellow, who will be a presenter at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. “However, roles change. When females enter young adulthood, they outnumber men in these chronic illness categories.”
Research has found women have a higher risk of asthma and allergy post adolescence. The reasons for this are complex, physicians tell us, and the rate of these diseases in women vary with age. Furthermore immune responses vary as well, which is why researchers tell us that care must be individualized and that “one size fits all is not the best approach.”
Even as medical researchers have provided information on the gender differences in asthma and allergies most of the standard care approaches and information cited publicly relate more to the familial factors in these diseases and the treatment that is more general than gender-specific.
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