Gender, Sex Hormones and Respiratory Disease

Аннотация

This book showcases some of the most important sex-based differences in lung structure and function in normal people and also the role that sex plays in lung diseases. The chapters highlight the successes in understanding why women have different pulmonary function testing results than men, how sex hormones may affect pulmonary vasculature, and why women have rising rates of smoking-related lung disease, to name just a few.