Gender Difference in Diabetes

<p>Sex and gender can affect the incidence prevalence symptoms course and response to drug therapy in many illnesses with sex (the biological side) and gender (the social?cultural one) being variously interconnected. <span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>During the two days of the meeting Gender Differences in Diabetic Disease held in Olbia Italy on 4 and 5 December 2020 we discussed the various medical social ethnic psychological and anthropological aspects of gender differences to build as broad a picture as possible of how these differences are present and evident in diabetic disease. T</span>ype 2 diabetes is the perfect example to justify gender medicine.<span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> During the meeting we also tried to identify the still-unclear points that deserve further studies.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book describes several aspects of gender medicine that are related to diabetes. Physiopathology drug treatment sexual and psychological aspects diabetes complication migration burden of working with a chronic disease and aspects related to COVID-19 infection are explored in a gender differentiation way. The authors are from different fields: medical doctors biologist psychologist nurse pharmacist anthropologist and so on.</span></p>