Diabetes: Factor 'gender' into treatment, say experts
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 10:31
in Health & Medicine
The international guidelines for the management of diabetes mellitus (type 2) purport to observe factors such as age, social environment, the duration of the illness or associated health complaints. The factor gender is not included. However, this is becoming an ever growing issue, because men and women bear different risks and fall victim to or suffer from a different type of diabetes. Therefore, say researchers, the treatment of the illness should be increasingly more gender-specific and personalized.