Female resistance to hypoxia: Does it explain the sex difference in mortality rates?

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 786-794

  Mage, David T ^a   Donner, Maria ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ASPHYXIA; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN STEM; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RESPIRATORY NERVE CELL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; X CHROMOSOME DOMINANT INHERITANCE;

ANOXIA; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT WELFARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33748459193     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2006.15.786     Document Type: Review

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