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Special Considerations for Men's Health
Published in Gia Merlo, Kathy Berra, Lifestyle Nursing, 2023
This chapter will focus on the following areas of men’s health lifestyle medicine—gender identity issues, overweight and obesity, erectile dysfunction, male fertility, chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, prostate cancer, testicular dysfunction, and testicular cancer.
Women in research
Published in Wendy A. Rogers, Jackie Leach Scully, Stacy M. Carter, Vikki A. Entwistle, Catherine Mills, The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics, 2022
Heart disease is often thought of as a men’s health issue. However, it is the leading cause of death for both women and men globally (Woodward 2019). The under-recognition of heart disease as a significant health threat for women, compounded by the differing clinical presentations of women and men, leads to less aggressive treatment strategies for women and a lower representation of women in clinical trials for coronary heart disease (Maas and Appelman 2010). Women’s experience of heart attack may differ from that of men (Woodward 2019); for example, women are more likely to have shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting and back or jaw pain. Traditional diagnostic methods based on male symptoms are therefore sub-optimal for women (Maas and Appelman 2010). In the US, women younger than fifty-five were seven times more likely to be misdiagnosed and discharged in the middle of having a heart attack than male patients (Nabel 2000). Research is orientated toward male experience of heart disease and as a result clinical treatment is often less effective for women. Looking at the medical literature, a standard heart disease clinical trial population is 85% male (Dougherty 2011). Mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting is higher in women than men (Alam et al. 2013).
Men’s Health
Published in James Matheson, John Patterson, Laura Neilson, Tackling Causes and Consequences of Health Inequalities, 2020
At a national strategic level: there should be an introduction of men’s health policy and also for other health policies, whether on cancer, cardiovascular disease or obesity, to take explicit account of the specific needs of men [38].
All of Me
Published in Oncology Issues, 2022
Due to anatomical changes from surgery to treat cancer, certain parts of the body may need to be removed to improve a patient’s chance of cure or remission. This is true for many types of cancer, such as uterine or bladder cancers, among others. Specific to ovarian cancer, pre-menopausal patients whose ovaries are removed as a part of their cancer treatment will experience induced menopause post-operation. These patients will have dramatic hormonal changes that they may not be prepared to address. Hormones are important for bone, cardiovascular, and sexual health, but the surgical removal of the ovaries in females or the prostate in males for treating cancer may be necessary. “It would be naive of us to believe that cancer treatments would not affect sexual health,” explains Amy Pearlman, MD, a urologist, clinical assistant professor, and director of the Men’s Health Program at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. “It has some to do with surgical technique, but it also has to do with anatomy and the anatomy in the pelvis that’s responsible for sexual health.”
Men have eating disorders too: an analysis of online narratives posted by men with eating disorders on YouTube
Published in Eating Disorders, 2022
Ekaterina Malova, Victoria Dunleavy
Additionally, ED in men are surrounded by stigma and gender stereotypes (Strother et al., 2012). It is a common misconception that ED is an exclusively female condition (Wiseman et al., 1992), and even men with ED themselves identify it as ‘female disease’ (Drummond, 2002), with only a small number seeking help (Bohrer et al., 2017; Pope et al., 2000). A recent comprehensive systematic review of men-only studies about experiences of ED treatment confirmed that men face specific challenges in healthcare access and availability as well as general stigmatization of ED as a “woman’s illness” (Richardson & Paslakis, 2020Under-diagnosis of male ED is common (Weltzin, 2012), suggesting that the number of men suffering from ED may be much bigger than reported. This pattern among men limits an accurate understanding of the magnitude of men’s health experience. Given that a very limited number of studies explore ED perspectives in men, a gender-sensitive approach recognizing different needs for males is critical for effective treatment (Bunnell & Maine, 2014; Weltzin et al., 2012). Hence, this study addresses this need and advances research on ED among males by examining common factors triggering ED development. We aim to confirm extant research on triggers and identify additional factors affecting disordered eating behaviors (aim 1).
Quality of life among patients after cystoprostatectomy as the treatment for locally advanced prostate cancer with bladder invasion
Published in The Aging Male, 2020
Peng Yuan, Shen Wang, Xifeng Sun, Hua Xu, Zhangqun Ye, Zhiqiang Chen
Prostate cancer (PCa) is a challenging threaten to men’s health, which ranks first among all male malignancies with almost 165 thousand estimated new cases in the USA alone, 2018 [1]. Importantly, it has been recently demonstrated that the incidence of PCa is increasing in China. Both the incidence and mortality of PCa have been on the top of any Chinese male urogenital malignancies [2]. Unfortunately, several cases were initially diagnosed with locally advanced PCa (LAPC) because of atypical symptoms and lack of early screening. Unlike localized PCa which can achieve almost 100% of 5-year overall survival (OS), LAPC is associated with a higher possibility of biochemical recurrence, distant metastasis, and mortality [3–5]. Moreover, LAPC patients always complained about discomfortable symptoms like hematuria, dysuria, and urinary frequency especially if the bladder invasion was involved [6]. Poor quality of life (QoL) and negative survival outcomes were common in these patients [7]. Comprehensive evaluation and individual treatment are crucially based on multi-disciplinary discussion and cooperation.