Full Description
Role of Sex and Gender in Aging and Longevity aims to shed light on the complex interplay between sex and gender differences in the aging process and longevity of individuals. While biological sex differences have long been recognized as influencing various aspects of aging, this book includes how gender also plays a significant role in shaping these processes, accelerating aging, or favoring longevity. By acknowledging the influence of both biological and socially constructed factors, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of why individuals may experience different aging trajectories and have divergent longevity outcomes. This book explores the intricate ways in which gender norms, roles, and expectations shape individual experiences of aging and delves into the social determinants of health that can interact with biological factors to influence the aging process and longevity outcomes. By examining these interactions, this book aims to provide a nuanced understanding of the multifaceted nature of aging and longevity and how sex and gender contribute to these complex phenomena, laying the groundwork for future aging research and providing significant implications for disease prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of age-related conditions.
Contents
1. Role of sex and gender in aging and longevity: An introduction
2. Sex and longevity: A demographic perspective
3. Exposome, aging, and longevity: The role of sex and gender differences in health and mortality
4. The health-survival paradox: Women live longer but are frailer
5. Lifestyle and successful aging in men and women
6. Role of genetics and hormones in the differences in longevity between men and women
7. Sex, gender, and epigenetics of aging and longevity
8. Hormesis and sex factors in aging and central nervous system disorders
9. The role of sex and gender in the proinflammatory status in aging and longevity
10. Immune aging of men and women: Different susceptibility to infectious diseases and different response to vaccines
11. The role of sex and age in some pathobiological and pathophysiological processes
12. Sex and gender differences in pathophysiology, clinical aspects, and drug therapy. Focus on oncology
13. Sex and gender differences in cardiovascular diseases
14. Brain aging, neurodegenerative disorders, and sex differences
15. Endocrine disorders in male and female older people
16. Autoimmune diseases of older people are influenced by sex and gender
17. Allergic diseases: Differences related to sex and gender and age
18. Sex differences in biomarkers: Implications for age-related diseases
19. Laboratory parameters in male and female older people
20. Role of sex and gender in aging and longevity: State of the art and future perspectives
