Chest pain is most common in men while women's symptoms are more subtle, often being generalized fatique, abdominal pain and nausea . Women have a greater risk of developing irregular heart rhythms in response to potassium channel blocking drugs . Women with irritable bowel syndrome will respond better to a serotonin receptor antagonist than men. Ibuprofen , as a pain reliever, is not as effective in women as in men. Nicotine replacement therapy is more effective in men than women.
Women metabolize alcohol more slowly than men because they make less gastric alcohol dehydrogenase.
Therefore, less alcohol intake is required in women to reach the same blood alcohol level. Some language functions are active in both sides of a woman's brain but only in one hemisphere in men. Women are more likely than men to recover language ability after suffering a stroke. Women experience depression two to three times more often than men, which may be due, in part, to a much lower rate of serotonin synthesis in women. Men and women absorb and excrete some drugs in different ways and at different rates.