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Pérola Grinberg Plapler1, Rebeca Boltes Cecatto2,3, Mariela Diament Socolowski1
1Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
Abstract:
Women and men can have the same illnesses, but with different prevalence and reactions to symptoms.
Objective:
This study aimed to emphasize that distinct traits between men and women require a different approach for each of them.
Methods:
PubMed and Google Scholar were searched using the following terms: Disability Evaluations, Women's health, Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis, and Lymphedema, Pregnancy.
Results/Conclusion:
Disease management can go beyond the symptoms, assessing the long-term consequences and possibly the disabilities they can generate, compromising the quality of life of the person, his/her family members, and eventually caregivers.
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