TY - JOUR T1 - <em>Breathe</em>: the influence of gender on respiratory conditions commencing in childhood JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - 85 LP - 86 DO - 10.1183/20734735.018118 VL - 14 IS - 2 AU - Renata L. Riha Y1 - 2018/06/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/14/2/85.abstract N2 - The influence of gender on the evolution of both rare and common chronic conditions, their management and response to treatment has been a poorly studied area in which we are in catching up as pulmonologists. Perhaps psychiatrists and psychologists have recognised that there are gender differences in behaviour and response to illness, which evolve over time from childhood into adulthood, but there is far less research in this area in internal medicine, let alone surgery!The June issue of Breathe focuses on gender and/or sex differences in the evolution of respiratory conditions that commence in childhood and persist into adulthood http://ow.ly/nABf30jGO6N ER -