Coverage of recommended vaccinations in subjects with diabetes mellitus and ischemic heart disease: results for women and men

Dörner, Thomas; Rásky, Éva; Stein, K. Viktoria; Stronegger, Willibald J.; Kautzky‐Willer, Alexandra; Rieder, Anita

doi:10.1007/s10354-010-0856-4

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“…In general, females have a tendency to prefer healthy lifestyle. Thus, they have higher probability to get health information and take preventive action like vaccination than males [36,37]. However, other previous studies have shown higher vaccination rates in males [38,39].…”

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Importance of Awareness and Treatment for Diabetes in Influenza Vaccination Coverage of Diabetic Patients under 65 Years: A Population-Based Study

Han

et al. 2021

Diabetes Metab J

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Background: Influenza is a global public health problem causing considerable morbidity and mortality. Although vaccination is the most effective way to prevent infection, vaccination coverage is insufficient in people with chronic disease under 65 years, especially diabetes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate influenza vaccination coverage and identify factors associated with influenza vaccination in Korean diabetic adults under 65 years. Methods: Data were obtained from 24,821 subjects in the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2014 to 2017). Socioeconomic, health-related, and diabetic factors were investigated for their relations with influenza vaccination in diabetic patients under 65 years using univariate and multivariate analyses. Results: Among 24,821 subjects, 1,185 were diabetic patients under 65 years and their influenza vaccination rate was 36.5%. Socioeconomic (older age, female gender, non-smoker, light alcohol drinker, lower educational level, and employed status), healthrelated factors (lower fasting glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin level, good self-perceived health status, more comorbidities, recent health screening, more outpatient visits, and diet therapy), and diabetic factors (more awareness and getting treated) were associated with influenza vaccination. In multivariate analysis, more awareness and getting treated for diabetes were associated with influenza vaccination in diabetic patients under 65 years (odds ratio, 1.496 and 1.413; 95% confidence interval, 1.022 to 2.188 and 1.018 to 2.054, respectively). Conclusion: Influenza vaccination rate was low in diabetic patients under 65 years, especially in those with unawareness and not getting treated for diabetes. Active screening and treatment for diabetes may be helpful to improve the influenza vaccination rate in these patients.

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Importance of Awareness and Treatment for Diabetes in Influenza Vaccination Coverage of Diabetic Patients under 65 Years: A Population-Based Study

Han

et al. 2021

Diabetes Metab J

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“…A basic genomic view reveals that while the Y chromosome carries mainly genes associated with sexual function, the X chromosomes harbor genes coding for physiological processes of the heart, brain and immune system. As a result, women, carrying two copies of the X chromosome, although one of them is silenced, have a stronger immune system than men, a lower risk for infectious disease and better antibody production following vaccination [ 5 , 6 ]. On the other hand, women are also more frequently affected by autoimmune disease like multiple sclerosis and rheumatic disease [ 5 , 7 ].…”

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The Relevance of Gender in Tumor-Influencing Epigenetic Traits

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Tumorigenesis as well as the molecular orchestration of cancer progression are very complex mechanisms that comprise numerous elements of influence and regulation. Today, many of the major concepts are well described and a basic understanding of a tumor's fine-tuning is given. Throughout the last decade epigenetics has been featured in cancer research and it is now clear that the underlying mechanisms, especially DNA and histone modifications, are important regulators of carcinogenesis and tumor progression. Another key regulator, which is well known but has been neglected in scientific approaches as well as molecular diagnostics and, consequently, treatment conceptualization for a long time, is the subtle influence patient gender has on molecular processes. Naturally, this is greatly based on hormonal differences, but from an epigenetic point of view, the diverse susceptibility to stress and environmental influences is of prime interest. In this review we present the current view on which and how epigenetic modifications, emphasizing DNA methylation, regulate various tumor diseases. It is our aim to elucidate gender and epigenetics and their interconnectedness, which will contribute to understanding of the prospect molecular orchestration of cancer in individual tumors.

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“…In 2004, most topics were related to cardiovascular disease, public health, and osteoporosis, whereas in 2006 the main topic was gender-differences In this journal we have covered a broad spectrum of medical areas with a focus on endocrinology and metabolism [7], including reproductive health, but also referring to the important topic of kidney transplantation [8] and heart failure [9], and to prevention and public health [10,11] as well as medical education [12] from a gender perspective. There are many unsolved important questions regarding sex-and gender differences.…”

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Editorial: Sex- and gender-based medicine: a challenging field of research

Kautzky‐Willer

2011

Wien Med Wochenschr

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Gender medicine is a new and challenging field of research which arouses increasing public interest and is going to affect more and more clinical practice. There is increasing evidence of gender-related differences in risk factors, clinical manifestation, and sequelae of diseases and increasing knowledge that prevention, detection, and therapy of illness affect men and women differently. Broad-minded clinicians and health professionals try to consider the different health needs of women and men. The increase of gender awareness is also reflected in several articles concerning sex-and gender-differences in the various fields of medicine and professional journals in addition to the journals relevant to this specific science. Therefore, it is not surprising that other fields of research than public health or cardiology, which traditionally engaged in gender medicine, are increasingly addressing sex-and gender-based differences. For example an actual scientific literature search in PubMed with the term Gender medicine resulted in 29837 publications including 1894 review articles. The terms gender differences showed 104176 articles, sex differences 134079 and gender bias 22317 publications. On the other hand, Womens health resulted in 306274, but Mens health in only 3107 citations. Gender medicine developed from womens health but also broadened the field of womens health including the wide range of health conditions that affect women beyond sexual and reproductive health and throughout the life course. Furthermore, the gender approach also prepared scientists and clinicians for more thorough engagement in mens health.In particular, gender medicine in the field of endocrinology and metabolism is rapidly expanding. Indeed endocrinology is one of the core subjects of gender-based medicine in general and therefore a regular section devoted to endocrinology was recently introduced to the journal specifically devoted to gender medicine, the Journal of Gender Medicine, founded by Marianne Legato in 2004 [1]. Sex-and gender-differences play an important role in pathophysiology, clinical picture, development of complications and in part also regarding therapy of metabolic disorders affecting life-quality and life-expectancy [2,3]. It is comprehensible that lifestyle-diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes are of special interest to sex-and gender-based medicine. Not only genes, sex-specific hormones, and body fat distribution combined with sex-related changes of adipocytokines, but also environmental exposures and psychosocial factors obviously contribute to progression of the diseases [4,5]. However, many other diseases such as immunologic diseases and allergies, but also degenerative diseases, neurologic and psychologic diseases show important sex-and gender-based differences [6]. In addition, knowledge on differences in drug-response and side reactions following drug therapy is still insufficient and there is need for randomized clinical trials addressing these questions and powered to answer these question in the futu...

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Coverage of recommended vaccinations in subjects with diabetes mellitus and ischemic heart disease: results for women and men

Cited by 7 publications

References 25 publications

Importance of Awareness and Treatment for Diabetes in Influenza Vaccination Coverage of Diabetic Patients under 65 Years: A Population-Based Study

Importance of Awareness and Treatment for Diabetes in Influenza Vaccination Coverage of Diabetic Patients under 65 Years: A Population-Based Study

The Relevance of Gender in Tumor-Influencing Epigenetic Traits

Editorial: Sex- and gender-based medicine: a challenging field of research

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