Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine, Volume 1-2
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: May 24, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1396
ISBN-13: 9780124409057
Subjects: Physiology; Public health & preventive medicine; Medical / Nursing; Internal Medicine; Medical; Family & General Practice; Medical / Endocrinology & Metabolism; General; Endocrinology & Metabolism; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology
First sentence: Evidence that differences between male and female infants in mortality, growth, and the susceptibility to specific diseases exist during the perinatal period (fetal and neonatal) has been bolstered by numerous embryologic, physiologic, epidemiologic, and anthropologic observations in humans and by laboratory studies and field observations in animals.