# Gender differences in diabetes outcome

**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/gender-differences-in-diabetes-outcome/1864
**Category:** Type 1 & LADA
**Created:** [September 6, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/gender-differences-in-diabetes-outcome/1864 "2017-09-06T16:46:43Z")
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### Author: ![Michel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/michel/32/387_2.png) [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/gender-differences-in-diabetes-outcome/1864/1 "2017-09-06T16:46:44Z")

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I was really intrigued by what @Jen wrote on another thread:

> [@What the heck!](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-the-heck/1852/19):
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> I remember on another site @Sam posted a topic about men and women having different diabetes outcomes in terms of mobidity and mortality and we had a discussion about why this might be.

What do we know about gender differences with D?

@jen’s opinion was that a great deal of it was explained by[the influence of periods on women’s BG](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-the-heck/1852/19).