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Women have a lower range of 'normal' blood pressure than men: Study
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 11 (ANI): A new study shows that women have a lower 'normal' blood pressure range compared to men.may be detrimental to a woman's health," said Susan Cheng, MD, MPH, MMSc, associate professor of Cardiology and director of the Institute for Research on Healthy Aging i
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Ageing neutralizes sex differences in the brain, suggests study
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Linkoping [Sweden], August 14 (ANI): A team of researchers from Linkoping University suggested that male and female fruit flies' brains become desexualized as they age. Both sexes endure age-related changes, however, the male brain gets more feminised than the female brain becomes masculine.
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Study finds why men face higher risk of most cancers than women
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 13 (ANI): Men have a higher incidence of most cancers than women. A study showed that the cause could be underlying biological sex differences rather than behavioural differences related to smoking, alcohol consumption, food, and other things.
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Ageing neutralizes sex differences in the brain: Study
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Linkoping [Sweden], August 10 (ANI): Fruit flies' brains become desexualized as they get older, both male and female. Both sexes experience age-related changes, but the male brain becomes more feminized to a larger extent than the female brain becomes masculine. A study conducted by a res
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Study finds why men face higher risk of most types of cancer than women
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 8 (ANI): For unknown causes, men have greater rates of most cancers than women. A recent study suggested that the cause may be underlying biological sex differences rather than behavioural differences relating to smoking, alcohol consumption, food, and other factors.
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Neurobiological processes during puberty trigger sex differences in learni
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
California [US], February 12 (ANI): Can biological changes during puberty affect learning and memory? New research from the University of California, Irvine has revealed that sex differences in learning and memory mechanisms are triggered by biological events occurring during puberty.
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Research finds universal sex differences appear in teens' career aspiratio
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 30 (ANI): A new study has shown consistent sex differences across 80 nations, suggesting biologically-influenced preferences can play a role in gender segregation in the workplace later in life.
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Animal study looks at anxiety differences between females, males
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine recently examined how biological factors impact anxiety disorders. The team studied male and female rodent models to better understand sex differences in biological responses related to anxiety.
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Researchers find clues to sex differences in autism
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], April 17 (ANI): While it is unclear why autism occurs much more frequently in boys than in girls. In a new Yale-led study, researchers find that autism may develop in different regions of the brain in girls than boys and that girls with autism have a larger number of genetic
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Hardly any difference between brains of men, women: Study
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 3 (ANI): A team of researchers at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science studied different research works on the differences between men and women's brains and concluded that the two brains are hardly different from one another.
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Study suggests women undergo less aggressive open heart surgery
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 6 (ANI): Women are significantly less likely than men to undergo coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) using guideline-recommended approaches, which may result in worse outcomes after surgery, as per a new study.
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Sex differences in 'body clock' may benefit women's heart health
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 10 (ANI): Did you know that a woman's 'body clock' benefits her heart health? A new research suggests that a gene that governs the body's circadian clock acts differently in males as compared to females and may protect females from heart disease.
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