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Stroke sensitivity in the aged: sex chromosome complement vs. gonadal hormones.
Aging - 1 Jul 2016
McCullough Louise D, Mirza Mehwish A, Xu Yan, Bentivegna Kathryn, Steffens Eleanor B, Ritzel Rodney, Liu Fudong
Abstract excerpt
Stroke is a sexually dimorphic disease. Elderly women not only have higher stroke incidence than age-matched men, but also have poorer recovery and higher morbidity and mortality after stroke. In older, post-menopausal women, gonadal hormone levels are similar to that of men. This suggests that tissue damage and functional outcomes are influenced by biologic sex (XX vs. XY) rather than the hormonal milieu at...
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