2023-11-09 08:00:15
DECRYPTION – The effect of molecules can differ depending on whether you are XX or XY. One solution: adapt the doses or duration of certain products.
Medicines have a gender! The effect of a molecule on a female or male body can be different, and women are twice as likely to experience adverse effects. Examples: they have hemorrhages more often while taking anticoagulants, edema under calcium antagonists, they have muscle pain under statins or even loss of blood cells under chemotherapy. As for effectiveness, morphine works better in men and aspirin protects them better from myocardial infarction…
Research has addressed these inequalities. Yannick Goumon, from the Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences in Strasbourg, is working, for example, on morphine, the benchmark painkiller, on an animal model, the mouse. Yannick Goumon notes that morphine causes more side effects in females but also that they need a dose twice as high as males to achieve a similar analgesic effect. “Such differences…
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