Medical Academic
Quarterly Insights

Women experience unique challenges that require a unique response from health workers. Due to hormones, their reproductive system, genetics and lifestyle, they are more likely than men to develop hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, fibromyalgia, eye disease, hyperalgesia, irritable bowel syndrome, and certain mood disorders.

Issue 01 - August 2023

Special considerations

Women are special. I should know, I've got a wife and two daughters running around the house. A house with many women is a house with many special considerations, where many special rules apply. It requires more cleanliness, for one thing. And it requires more pig-headed humans (men) to evolve the power to be considerate. Like something from a very sappy X-Men movie.

Health workers (and clinicians in particular) need to take note of the special rules that apply to roughly 49.6% of the global population and diagnose accordingly. Women are more likely than men to experience disabling chronic conditions. They have body parts men don't have. They are also more likely to seek medical treatment than men. So if you're wondering why ladies are flooding your waiting room, it's probably not the stack of Sarie mags on the coffee table.

This is the very first issue of our Quarterly Insights and we're very proud of it. We worked extra hard to make sure it's jam-packed with high-quality content that's relevant to you. And it's CPD-accredited to boot! A personal highlight was getting Prof Carol-Ann Benn to review our article on multidisciplinary breast cancer teams. We also look at the alarmingly high rate of depression among women. The cycle of weight loss and weight regain is addressed in our article about phentermine therapy.

PCOS is alarmingly common among SA women: read more about its link to diabetes in our CPD article. We also give you the skinny on the cardiovascular and metabolic risks of menopause. Drop me a line at Conrad.Strydom@newmedia.co.za if you have any comments, suggestions or cheques you want to deposit.

Kindest regards,
Conrad

**Conrad Strydom** has been involved in the media, publishing and content creation industry for 12 years. He has worked as an editor and senior journalist for high-profile organisations such as New Media and the South African Medical Association. He believes in a multimedia approach, incorporating whatever format works best to inform and uplift his readers.

**Conrad Strydom** has been involved in the media, publishing and content creation industry for 12 years. He has worked as an editor and senior journalist for high-profile organisations such as New Media and the South African Medical Association. He believes in a multimedia approach, incorporating whatever format works best to inform and uplift his readers.

Medical Academic offers healthcare professionals the opportunity access clinical content generated by Medical Chronicle, Specialist Forum, Pharmacy Magazine and the SA Ophthalmology Journal. Medical Academic hosts articles that have been accredited for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) by approved accreditors. CPD articles enable healthcare professionals to stay up to date with industry standards, treatments and diagnosis.

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