{"id":497589,"date":"2024-01-26T09:53:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=497589"},"modified":"2024-01-26T09:53:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:53:26","slug":"the-sensitive-eyes-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/the-sensitive-eyes-of-women\/","title":{"rendered":"The sensitive eyes of women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women are at a greater risk than men of suffering recurring cases of ocular toxoplasmosis, caused by the protozoan <em>Toxoplasma gondii<\/em>. A study of 139 women and 123 men treated at an outpatient clinic in Ribeir\u00e3o Preto, S\u00e3o Paulo, indicated that the eye infection \u2014 the most common cause of blindness in Brazil \u2014 manifests differently in the two sexes: 36% of female patients had recurrences of the infection, but repeat cases only represented 28.5% among males. Among women there were also more lesions close to the central area of the retina (56.1%) than among men (39.8%). According to Jo\u00e3o Furtado of the Ribeir\u00e3o Preto School of Medicine at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (FMRP-USP), the results could be due to immune system differences, or simply the greater likelihood of women to seek medical care. \u201cBetter understanding the manifestations of diseases allows us to adjust how we follow up with patients based on what to expect,\u201d he says. The protozoa infect the eyes after ingestion of contaminated food (<em>British Journal of Ophthalmology<\/em>, May).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women at higher risk than men of suffering ocular toxoplasmosis multiple times","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[209,247],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-497589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-biology","tag-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497590,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497589\/revisions\/497590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497589"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=497589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}