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Gender, Sex Hormones and Respiratory Disease

A Comprehensive Guide

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Anna R. Hemnes

    1. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA

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  • Comprehensive, first-of-its kind title in the field
  • Covers full range of sex-specific lung diseases
  • Important new resource for clinicians and scientists alike

Part of the book series: Respiratory Medicine (RM)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Sex Differences in Normal Pulmonary Structure and Function at Rest and During Exercise

    • Craig A. Harms, Joshua R. Smith, Stephanie P. Kurti
    Pages 1-26

  3. Sex Hormone Signaling in the Lung in Health and Disease: Airways, Parenchyma, and Pulmonary Vasculature

    • Andrea L. Frump, Tim Lahm
    Pages 27-62

  4. Women and COPD

    • Catherine A. Meldrum, MeiLan K. Han
    Pages 63-85

  5. Sex, Gender, and Asthma

    • Dawn C. Newcomb
    Pages 87-103

  6. Sex Hormones, Sex, Gender, and Pulmonary Hypertension

    • Xinping (Peter) Chen, Eric D. Austin
    Pages 105-117

  7. Pulmonary Fibrosis

    • Andrew J. Bryant
    Pages 119-145

  8. Sex-Specific Differences in Lung Cancer

    • Laura P. Stabile, Timothy F. Burns
    Pages 147-171

  9. Lymphangioleiomyomatosis

    • Jeannette Zinggeler Berg, Lisa Young
    Pages 173-187

  10. Developmental Lung Disease

    • Patricia Silveyra
    Pages 189-203

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 205-213
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About this book

This book discusses normal sex-related differences in lung structure and function and the role these differences play in lung disease. New research on the effects of sex hormone signaling on specific cell types of the lung has begun to reveal how these hormones may drive or prevent lung disease. Expertly written chapters examine the effects of sex hormones on normal pulmonary structure and function, hormone signaling in lung health, and specific diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, pulmonary hypertension, and lung cancer. Gender, Sex Hormones, and Respiratory Disease: A Comprehensive Guide focuses on our current understanding and the gaps in research, with suggestions for future directions and implications for therapy. This book is a useful reference for pulmonologists and researchers and will prompt further inquiry aimed at improving overall lung health.    

   

Editors and Affiliations

  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA

    Anna R. Hemnes

About the editor

Dr. Anna R. Hemnes received her undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1995 and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1999. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins as well. She received advanced training in pulmonary vascular disease at Vanderbilt and has incorporated this interest into her research focus: physiology of pulmonary vascular disease. Her laboratory investigates how the right ventricle hypertrophies and fails in the load stress of pulmonary hypertension and the influence of gender on this phenotype. She is also interested in the non-invasive diagnosis and evaluation of pulmonary vascular disease ranging from pulmonary embolism to pulmonary arterial and venous hypertension.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender, Sex Hormones and Respiratory Disease

  • Book Subtitle: A Comprehensive Guide

  • Editors: Anna R. Hemnes

  • Series Title: Respiratory Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23998-9

  • Publisher: Humana Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23996-5Published: 22 December 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79567-6Published: 27 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23998-9Published: 16 December 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2197-7372

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7380

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 213

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Pneumology/Respiratory System, Biomedicine general

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