Gender-related research

GOVERNMENT AGENCY AND INDUSTRY ACTONS ON GENDER-RELATED RESEARCH... 

Government agency and industry actions on gender-related research... 

Quisumbing, Agnes R., and John A. Maluccio. 2000. Intrahousehold Allocation and Gender Relations New Empirical Evidence from Four Developing Gountries. Food Gonsumption and Nutrition Division Discussion Paper 84. Washington, DG International Food Policy Research Institute. 

Neurological effects in humans have been a particular focus of recent research, and appear to be related to exposures of the ortho-substituted congeners as well as the co-planar configurations [43,44,107,109-112], Impacts on immune function [113], some aspects of thyroid function [114], gender ratios, and endocrine disruption [40,115] have also been documented. 

As pertinent variables are identified, it will become clear that some data will be easily obtainable, whereas information on other variables will be extremely difficult to acquire. Pharmacy-related data often are easily retrievable because much of the information can be obtained directly from the pharmacy s prescription computer program (and the patient profiles). Patient demographic information such as gender and age generally is also stored on the pharmacy computer. However, depending on the research question, data from other areas of the health care system may need to be collected as well. For instance, one hypothesis could be that a pharmacy service may result in a reduction in emergency department visits. Pharmacists often do not have access to data on emergency department visits in their own records. 

Regarding the formation of these isoflavone derivatives, it is extremely interesting that some people are unable to produce equol or that they produce it in very low amounts. In fact, studies report that a third part of the general population cannot form equol. This demonstrates that the breakdown of isoflavones by the microflora in the gut determines the recovery of the compounds, and that the excretion to the urine of equol and other isoflavones derivatives, such as O-DMA, is dependent on the different composition of intestinal microflora. To confuse the issue even more, some researchers report that the production of isoflavone derivatives, such as equol, also depends on diet and gender a high fat/meat content diet increases equol production in women but not in men, which is explained by promotion of the growth or the activity of the bacterial populations responsible for equol production. On the other hand, no age-related differences for isoflavone metabolism have been reported [12, 13],... 

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