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Sex and Gender Issues in Pain

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Men and women can exhibit different modes of pain behaviour, and treatment should be directed accordingly. Women are given more prolonged courses of opioids while death rates (from opioids) are higher in men.

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  1. Department of Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine, Central Manchester Hospitals, Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK

    Mowafak Abdelghani

  2. Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Warrington, UK

    Hala Sadik

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Correspondence to Mowafak Abdelghani .

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA

    Alaa Abd-Elsayed

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Abdelghani, M., Sadik, H. (2019). Sex and Gender Issues in Pain. In: Abd-Elsayed, A. (eds) Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99124-5_80

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