Sex specific definitions of anaemia contribute to health inequity and sociomedical injustice

Affiliations

¹ Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA. Electronic address: acweyand@med.umich.edu.
² Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Hasbro Children's Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
³ Departments of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Angela C Weyand et al. Lancet Haematol. 2022 Jan.

. 2022 Jan;9(1):e6-e8.

doi: 10.1016/S2352-3026(21)00351-3.

¹ Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA. Electronic address: acweyand@med.umich.edu.
² Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Hasbro Children's Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
³ Departments of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

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Conflict of interest statement

MS has unrestricted educational and research grants from Pfizer (Canadian distributor of IV Monoferric). All other authors have nothing to declare.

Sex specific definitions of anaemia reflect androgen production.
Spivak JL. Spivak JL. Lancet Haematol. 2022 Apr;9(4):e243. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3026(22)00052-7. Lancet Haematol. 2022. PMID: 35358434 No abstract available.