Departments of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 5E9, Canada.
Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 5E9, Canada.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 5;19(21):14524. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192114524.
In this commentary, we explore the disproportionate risk women experience with the insertion of various medical devices. Although pre-market device testing and complication tracking could be improved for all, a failure to consider sex differences in hormones, anatomy, inflammatory responses, and physical function puts women at particular risk. This invisibility of women is an example of gender bias in medical science and practice, a bias that could be corrected in the ways we suggest.
在这篇评论中,我们探讨了女性在插入各种医疗器械时所面临的不成比例的风险。尽管可以改进所有医疗器械的上市前设备测试和并发症跟踪,但未能考虑到激素、解剖结构、炎症反应和身体功能方面的性别差异,使女性处于特别的风险之中。这种对女性的忽视是医学科学和实践中性别偏见的一个例子,这种偏见可以通过我们建议的方式得到纠正。