2009 Publication Calendar

 

Each quarter, Gender Medicine provides important scientific and clinical information on gender/sex-specific differences in medicine and therapy including issues related to aspects of both men’s and women’s health concerns. The journal also focuses on a legal or ethical dilemma that impacts clinical care or policy decision-making.

February 2009: THEME ISSUE—DIABETES, OBESITY, AND THE METABOLIC SYNDROME

Print Date: February 10th

• Diabetes, obesity, and erectile dysfunction
• Review of cardiovascular risk factors in women
• Impact of hormone therapy for women aged 35 to 65 years, from contraception to hormone replacement
• Gender differences in insulin resistance, body composition, and energy balance
• Gender in childhood obesity: family environment, hormones, and genes
• Cost and policy implications from the increasing prevalence of obesity and diabetes mellitus
• Antepartum glucose tolerance test results as predictors of type 2 diabetes mellitus in women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review
• Interrelations and associations of serum levels of steroids and pituitary hormones with markers of insulin resistance, inflammatory activity, and renal function in men and women aged >70 years in an eight-year longitudinal study of opposite-sex twins

March 2009

Print Date: March 10th

• Trends in self-rated health in Japan
• Associations of alcohol drinking with blood pressure and serum lipids in Japanese female smokers and nonsmokers
• Gender differences in preventive dental treatment procedures
• Gender-related differences in the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Eastern Europe
• Suicidal ideation among female physicians
• Gender differences in constipation
• Sex differences in reproductive senescence

March 2009: THEME ISSUE—PAIN EXPERIENCE, PERCEPTION, AND THERAPY

Print Date: March 10th

• Diagnosis and treatment options in fibromyalgia
• Fluctuations in ovarian hormones in women with irritable bowel syndrome related to gastrointestinal symptoms
• A review of pain response throughout the menstrual cycle
• Sex differences in the associations between cortisol and laboratory pain responses in healthy children
• Sexual differentiation of reproductive versus opioid antinociceptive systems review
• Sex difference in the development of localized and spread mechanical hypersensitivity after injury of infraorbital or sciatic nerves

June 2009

Print Date: June 10th

• A cross-cultural perspective of women as leaders of complementary medicine integration in primary care
• Gender differences in use, perceived efficacy, and future use of tobacco dependence treatments
• Higher physiological serum levels of progesterone in elderly are associated with congestive heart failure, diabetes, and increased mortality
• Sex differences in body composition
• Treatment response to rivastigmine in cognitive impairment
• Gender differences in psychotic bipolar mania
• Review of gender-related differences in upper gastrointestinal endoscopic findings

September 2009: THEME ISSUE—CARDIOVASCULAR SEX AND GENDER DIFFERENCES

Print Date: September 10th

• Genistein treatment on ischemic recovery of heart function
• Estradiol increases renal cGMP by decreasing oxidative stress
• Coronary artery disease in women
• A gender perspective of early warning signs of an acute myocardial infarction
• Gender specific preventive cardiovascular knowledge
• Women with atrial fibrillation
• Elevated C-reactive protein levels in subjects with the metabolic syndrome related to gender

For more information, please contact:
Jo-Ann E. West, MSc
Publisher
908.547.2082
j.e.west@elsevier.com