Women wait longer than men for a lung transplant

This is one more inequality, which is added to a long list… We know that women’s health and their biological specificities are less well taken into account in medical research and practice, exposing them to less good treatment. in charge. A new study drives home the point: when they need a lung transplant, women wait on average six weeks longer than men, French researchers show.

Lung transplantation consists of transplanting one or two lungs into a patient in whom this organ has become completely dysfunctional, exposing them to a high risk of death. The main current causes are obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and post-smoking emphysema, which lead to obstruction and destruction of the lungs respectively, or pulmonary fibrosis which generally occurs in older people.

These diseases affect women as much as men. So, out of around 300 transplants…