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Review
. 2018 Jan 18;3(1):CNC51.
doi: 10.2217/cnc-2017-0015. eCollection 2018 Mar.

Sex & gender considerations in concussion research

Tatyana Mollayeva  1   2   3   1   2   3 , Graziella El-Khechen-Richandi  1   2   3   1   2   3 , Angela Colantonio  1   2   3   1   2   3
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Sex & gender considerations in concussion research

Tatyana Mollayeva et al. Concussion. .

Abstract

The study of concussion, a common form of mild traumatic brain injury, has received increased notice over the last decade. Recently, more researchers have been addressing the historic paucity of attention over sex and gender influences on recovery outcomes after concussion. This development has led to exciting progress in our understanding of concussion incidence and outcomes. In this review, we will report on new findings from varying studies on sex differences in the epidemiology of concussion and clinical manifestations of mild traumatic brain injury/concussion, further discussing some key issues related to the integration of sex and gender in concussion research in a broad range of contexts, with recommendations to guide future research, along with sex- and gender-sensitive policy considerations.

Keywords: assault; concussion; epidemiology; sex/gender; sport/work related; traumatic brain injury.

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Conflict of interest statement

Financial & competing interest disclosure Research reported in this publication was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award number R21 HD08106-01. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. During the work on this research, the first author was also supported by a grant from the Alzheimer's Association postdoctoral research grant (AARF-16-442937) and all authors by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research Grant – Institute for Gender and Health (CGW-126580). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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