Studies conducted by scientists from the California medical center Cedars-Sinai Hospital (USA), showed: the same drugs in terms of effectiveness affect women and men differently.
So, tablets need to be made and taken by gender. The public is excited: what will happen if a woman accidentally eats a "male" pill?
Medicines and gender: what's the catch?
The need to divide the tablets into male and female scientists explained as follows. The hormonal characteristics of the male and female body are fundamentally different, which means that the degree of effectiveness of drugs varies in direct proportion to gender. That is why scientists are seriously thinking about using a different set and concentration of components in the manufacture of drugs.
Until now, scientists knew that the effectiveness of taking drugs depends on the amount of drug administered, the frequency, duration of administration and even the time of day. Now it turned out that the effect of the tablets is directly related to the patient's gender.
Do women spoil the clinical picture?
The fact is, the metabolic processes in the body of women and men are different. This is due to the difference in genes and hormones. This means that the headache medicine taken by the woman may not work.
Traditionally, it is women who are excluded from clinical trials of drugs being created. Experimenters fear that jumps in female sex hormones progesterone and estrogen - distort the picture of research. During the menstrual cycle, the hormonal background changes, and introduces an error in the calculations.
So far, drug developers have mistakenly believed that their products have the same effect on all people, regardless of gender. Basically it sways antidepressant drugs, as well as painkillers and sedatives. This error was discovered after a thorough study of the mechanism of action of the drug.
Hormonal background
Researchers were able to identify a clear relationship between taking the drug and a surge of hormones. At the same time, drugs based on nurofen work better for men, and painkillers from the class of oploids are more effective for women.
As for antidepressants, men respond more strongly to tricyclics, and women respond to a group of SSRI inhibitors (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) In general, you and I do not need to go into chemical subtleties. The main thing is to understand that the drugs actually affect the male and female half of humanity in different ways.
And this means that taking "not your drug" is a potential danger of serious side effects.
In addition, the “wrong” medicine may simply not work at a critical moment. That is why scientists intend to initiate the production of antidepressants and “pain pills” depending on the patient’s gender.
