Specialty Sections
Gender Medicine focuses on the impact of sex and gender on normal human physiology, the pathophysiology and clinical features of disease, and therapeutic interventions. The journal seeks to publish reports of original scientific investigations that use biological sex and/or gender as a significant variable in the experimental protocol.Click on images below for more details.
Cardiovascular/Renal
- Pathophysiological basis of cardiovascular and renal disease
- Regulation of blood pressure
- Regulation of water and electrolyte homeostasis
- Epidemiology of cardiovascular and renal disease
- Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and renal disease
Developmental Programming of Diseases
This research, focusing on developmental programming of adult disease and health, includes:- Maternal and fetal influences
- The impact of early postnatal growth
- Epigenetics
- Preterm birth and maternal health
Endocrinology
- Gender-related observations in metabolic syndrome and diabetes
- Thyroid disease
- Congenital and acquired metabolic conditions affecting the adrenal glands and gonads
- Metabolic bone disease
- Endocrine disruptors
Health Policy and Gender Disparities
- Preventive, acute care, and chronic disease management
- Medical decision-making
- Health care experiences, health literacy, power, and doctor-patient relationships
- Health status, access to health care, health care utilization, and satisfaction with health care
- Effects of managed care and other health insurance products
- Legislation that engenders or ameliorates disparities
- Behaviors that protect against or increase risk for poor health outcomes
- Differences across subpopulations that impact health status, costs, risk, access, etc.
Neuroscience
- All sex/gender-related aspects of basic neuroscience research, from molecules to disease
- All sex/gender-related aspects of clinical neurological research, from molecules to disease
- Neuroscience research on one sex that has implications for both sexes
Psychiatry
This research, focusing on gender differences across all psychiatric disorders, includes:- Neurobiological and clinical aspects
- Endocrinological influences on psychiatric disorders
- Differences in pharmacotherapy in men and women
