Giuseppina Candore, Giulia Accardi, Anna Aiello, Giovannella Baggio, Tiziana Bellini, Vittorio Calabrese, Anna P Carreca, Ignazio Carreca, Anna Masucci, Monica Cattaneo, Serena Dato, Danilo D Bona, Luca Fabris, Caterina Gambino, Gabriele D Lorenzo, Claudio Francescschi, Mattia E Ligotti, Maria C Manfrinato, Annibale A Puca, Martina Tamburello, Roberta Vassallo, Calogero Caruso
Gender medicine is a multidisciplinary science and represents an important perspective for pathophysiological and clinical studies in the third millennium. Here, it is provided an overview of the topics discussed in a recent course on the Role of Sex and Gender in Ageing and Longevity. The paper highlights three themes discussed in the course, i.e., the interaction of gender/sex with, i) the pathophysiology of age-related diseases; ii), the role of genetics and epigenetics in ageing and longevity and, iii) the immune responses of older people to pathogens, vaccines, autoantigens, and allergens...
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