Kim Seong-Eun
Department of Internal Medicine, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Korean J Gastroenterol. 2021 May 25;77(5):241-247. doi: 10.4166/kjg.2021.064.
Although not as prominent, there are gender/sex differences in incidence/prevalence, clinical manifestation and disease course, comorbidities, therapeutic response, and patients coping strategy to the disease of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). In this review, current knowledge about gender-specific differences in IBD would be provided and how to apply this in clinical practice be discussed.
尽管不那么显著,但炎症性肠病(IBD)在发病率/患病率、临床表现和病程、合并症、治疗反应以及患者对疾病的应对策略方面存在性别差异。在这篇综述中,将提供关于IBD性别特异性差异的当前知识,并讨论如何将其应用于临床实践。