Sex and Gender Differences in Cardiovascular-Renal-Metabolic Physiology and Pathophysiology Sex, Gender and Function Fundamentals of Physiology Series

1. Sex differences in circadian rhythm of blood pressure
2. Sex differences in the cardiovascular consequences of early life stress
3. Sex differences in immune system and blood pressure control
4. Sex differences in cardiovascular consequences of severe calorie restriction
5. Sex differences in cardiovascular, renal, metabolic responses to androgens
6. Sex differences in mechanisms of diabetes
7. Sex differences in developmental programming of cardiovascular-renal diseases
8. Sex differences in cardiovascular-renal consequences in offspring of women with polycystic ovary syndrome
9. Mechanisms responsible for Sex differences in COVID-19 mortality
10. Sex differences in mitochondrial function and dysfunction
11. Sex differences in mechanisms of salt sensitivity of blood pressure
12. Sex differences in vascular aging
13. Dietary sodium, mineralocorticoid receptor and sex differences in endothelial function
14. Mechanisms responsible for sex differences in offspring exposed to gestational hypoxia
15. Sex differences in the cardiometabolic consequences of maternal weight loss in the offspring
16. Sex differences in type 2 diabetic kidney disease
17. Sex differences in mechanisms of stroke
18. Sex differences in vascular and cardiac aging
19. Incidence of Cardiovascular diseases in transgender men and women
20. Gender differences in antihypertensive response to renal denervation
21. Gender differences in renal denervation to treat heart failure
22. Sex differences in relaxing responses in adult and aging
23. Role of sex hormones in heart pathophysiology
24. Definition of what is sex and what is gender in research
25. Sex Differences in Traditional Cardiovascular Risk factors
26. Sex differences in atherosclerosis
27. Cardiovascular Diseases and Menopause

Dr. Reckelhoff is professor and chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and director of the Women’s Health Research Center at UMMC. She also worked as a critical care nurse for 11 years before completing her BS and PhD. Dr. Reckelhoff’s research focuses on the mechanisms responsible for the sex differences in blood pressure control and renal disease, postmenopausal hypertension, and polycystic ovary syndrome. She is currently serving as past president of the American Physiological Society made up of more than 10,000 members from around the world. She has received numerous awards, including the Harry Goldblatt Award in Cardiovascular Research from the American Heart Association (AHA) Council for High Blood Pressure Research, the Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Hypertension/Monarch Pharmaceuticals, the Lewis K. Dahl Award for Hypertension Research from the AHA Council on Hypertension, and the Ernest Starling Lecture Award from the American Physiological Society.
Dr. Yanes Cardozo is an Associate Professor in the UMMC Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, and the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology. She received an MD from the National University of Asuncion, Paraguay, and then came to UMMC to perform a postdoctoral fellowship in basic research. After receiving a Scientist Development Grant from the American Heart Association, Dr. Yanes Cardozo decided to finish her residency and fellowship in order to see patients. Although she sees all types of endocrinology patients, including those receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy, her expertise is in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) that is characterized by increased androgens, obesity and elevated blood pressure. She has been funded by NIH to study the role that adipose tissue plays in mediating the metabolic phenotype of PCOS. She is also the Director of Research for residents in the Department of Medicine.
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