Asthma
Different mechanisms cause asthma in males and females at varying ages
Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 21st, 2005
Piush J. Mandhane, of both McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, and colleagues found that factors predicting asthma and wheeze differed between the sexes and between childhood and adolescence.
Males were found to have had childhood wheeze more often and females were more likely to display adolescent-onset wheeze.
The researchers pointed out that...
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