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a Respiratory
Epidemiology Unit, Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and
Occupational Health and of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal,
Québec, Canada H3A 1A3, b INSERM U472 Epidémiologie et Biostatistique,
Villejuif, France
Correspondence to: Dr M R Becklake
Received 27 April 1999; Accepted for publication 28 July 1999
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Introduction |
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Gender differences in airway behaviour and in the clinical manifestations of airway disease occur throughout the human life span and are related to biological as well as sociocultural factors.1-11 Though they have not escaped recognition, they have received less attention than gender differences in the rates of, for instance, cardiovascular disease, both in terms of research and their implications for clinical practice.4 5 10-12 Physiologists have in general paid more attention than clinicians to gender differences in airway behaviour, even though gender differences are an important determinant of the clinical manifestations of airway disease. Similarly, in population based (epidemiological) studies of airway disease, gender is invariably considered a standardising variable rather than a determinant worthy of investigation in its own right.4 However, there have been some notable historical exceptions.
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Historical perspective |
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In 1846 John Hutchison,1 a London surgeon, presented
a report to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society entitled
On the capacity of the lungs
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