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@shes-here
i was mulling over these papers in the past week, as i was looking into the under representation of women in clincial trials+studies. which isn’t the best way to put it, as women ARE represented, but not faithfully, aka not to where it reflects the populations the study is looking to benefit [1]. Sosinsky et al. brings us this crazy statistic where in psychiatric trials, women are 60% of the patients but 42% of the participants. AND i wanted to highlight some company attitudes reflected in the trial investigators as shown in the study by Waltz et. al., who acknowledged the importance of data from female participants, and then said that the competition to have the drugs out first often led to there being not enough data on the drug’s impacts on female reproductive systems to use it. which leads to a inaccurate data set in the first place, requiring readjustments on the drug information later on bc it wasn’t tested accurately against female metabolic systems… leading to further to delay
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agusti
@bleu.eth
there’s also and underlying under representation of women in the medical and scientific population due to historic cultural pressures avoiding them reaching these professions. this also translates in way less studies or research on health issues that majorly affect women like PMS, reproductive healthcare, etc there’s also some research on how women are better served by having a male family member accompain them at a doctor visit, due to the long time biases that women are more loud about pain, some doctors might undermine their active pain vs a man which is seen as not expressing it as easily. lots of angles
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@shes-here
yes absolutely!! there’s even more perspectives- gonna highlight what Waltz et al. mentions, the idea that a “man” is the standard for what a human is. In health research, this turns into understanding drugs and health as a whole from the perspective of male physiology, which results in drugs that are based on male hormonal cycles, metabolic processes, and more!
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agusti
@bleu.eth
that seems backwards since fetuses are hermaphrodite by default and only develop male/female genitalia during gestation... but so much of our science is backwards that im not surprised i guess we used to think the universe and our galaxy gravitated around the earth and not the sun
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@shes-here
right!!!!!! there is so much further we must go in science- the knowledge that’s ahead is vast and boundless, we must dig even deeper 🤩
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