Medicines have a gender. The effect of the molecule on the body of a woman or a man can be different, and women are twice as likely to have negative effects. For example, they are more likely to have bleeding when taking anticoagulants, swelling when taking anticalcium drugs, muscle pain when taking statins, or even loss of blood cells during chemotherapy. In terms of efficacy, morphine works better in men and aspirin better protects them from heart attacks…
Research has addressed these disparities. Yannick Goumon of the Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences in Strasbourg works, for example, on an animal model of morphine, the benchmark pain reliever, in the mouse. Yannick Goumon notes that morphine has more adverse effects in women, but also that they need twice as high a dose as men to achieve a similar analgesic effect. “Such differences…
Source: Le Figaro
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