Could estrogen be the reason for a female survival advantage after injury? - On Medicine

Could estrogen be the reason for a female survival advantage after injury? - On Medicine

Rebecca Strong

Rebecca is a Team Leader on the BMC Series Assistant Editor team and originally joined BMC as an Editorial Operations Coordinator in November 2015. She has a MSc in Science, Technology and Society from University College London and a BSc in Natural Sciences from the University of East Anglia. She has worked on a number of journals in the BMC Series including BMC Cancer, BMC Energy and BMC Hematology.

Could estrogen be the reason for a female survival advantage after injury?

Estrogen has been suggested as potentially being the main contributing factor for female survival advantage in trauma. A study recently published in the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine studied this hypothesis.

Rebecca Strong 14 Jun 2019

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It is well known from previous studies that females have a survival advantage over males and it is not restricted in particular regions or ethnicities. For example, a study found Japanese women outlive Japenese men by six years.