Gender medicine: Lessons from COVID-19 and other medical conditions for designing health policy

Figure 1 The annual number or articles publishes in PubMed on gender differences and medical conditions. The annual number of articles on gender differences and medical conditions¹ (black rhombus, continuous line), and the subsets on treatment/intervention/guidelines² (dark gray square, dotted line) or health policy/prevention strategies³ (light gray, dashed line). ¹The exact query searched for the following terms in either the “Title” or the “Abstract” of the articles: [(“Gender difference” OR “sex difference” OR [(“sex” OR “gender”) AND “risk factors”)] AND (“health” OR “comorbidities” OR “medical conditions”) NOT (“transgender” OR “identity” OR “orientation”)]; ²The exact query is similar to the first one, including an additional condition: (“Treatment” OR “intervention” OR “guidelines”); ³The exact query is similar to the first one, including an additional condition: (“Policy” OR “prevention”).

Figure 2 A broad and integrative approach to generating data on gender differences related to medical profiles across developmental stages and translating the evidence into age-adjusted and gender-oriented clinical guidelines and health policy.