Augenarzt-Praxisgemeinschaft Gutblick, Pfäffikon, Switzerland.
Department of Ophthalmology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2024 Apr;52(3):317-333. doi: 10.1111/ceo.14364. Epub 2024 Feb 13.
Gender medicine is a medical specialty that addresses gender differences in health and disease. Traditionally, medical research and clinical practice have often been focused on male subjects and patients. As a result, gender differences in medicine have been overlooked. Gender medicine considers the biological, psychological, and social differences between the genders and how these differences affect the development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. For ophthalmological diseases epidemiological differences are known. However, there are not yet any gender-based ophthalmic treatment approaches for women and men. This review provides an overview of gender differences in retinal diseases. It is intended to make ophthalmologists, especially retinologists, more sensitive to the topic of gender medicine. The goal is to enhance comprehension of these aspects by highlighting fundamental gender differences. Integrating gender medicine into ophthalmological practice helps promote personalized and gender-responsive health care and makes medical research more accurate and relevant to the entire population.
性别医学是一门医学专业，研究健康和疾病中的性别差异。传统上，医学研究和临床实践通常集中在男性受试者和患者身上。因此，医学中的性别差异被忽视了。性别医学考虑了性别之间的生物、心理和社会差异，以及这些差异如何影响疾病的发展、诊断、治疗和预防。对于眼科疾病，已经知道存在流行病学差异。然而，目前还没有针对女性和男性的基于性别的眼科治疗方法。这篇综述提供了视网膜疾病中性别差异的概述。其目的是使眼科医生，特别是视网膜专家，更加关注性别医学这一主题。目标是通过强调基本的性别差异来提高对这些方面的理解。将性别医学纳入眼科实践有助于促进个性化和对性别问题有回应的医疗保健，并使医学研究更加准确和适用于整个人群。
