It is well documented that certain medical conditions affect men and women differently. It even sometimes occurs more in one than the other depending on the issue. This is obvious in certain circumstances; such as breast cancer primarily affecting women even though there is a growing awareness of it in men too. As a whole, medical afflictions of all natures can have differing effects on both men and women.
This includes asthma, allergic reactions, and potentially allergic rhinitis too. Interestingly, not only can this manifest in different ways between men and women, but something curious happens in children.
It affects those suffering from asthmas, allergies, and allergic rhinitis when they develop through puberty and into adulthood. A recent study investigated whether there was a sex shift between boys and girls maturing into adulthood. Previous studies have shown that allergic rhinitis and asthma affects more boys than girls in childhood. But this exhibited a marked switch into adulthood, as the conditions became more apparent in females. The conclusive study examined over 93, participants over ten different studies.
It did so in a fourteen-year period to ascertain how predominant this sex-shift was. In children who suffered from both allergic rhinitis and asthma, males outnumbered females by a ratio of 1. Or, for every three girls who suffered both together, there were effectively five boys with the same dual condition.
However, as the children grew into adolescence, this practically reversed. The male-female ratio for those between years of age is 0.
