Chapter 51: Women as Patients
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Prescribing for women during their childbearing years requires constant awareness of the possibility
of:
1. Pregnancy unless the women is on birth control
2. Risk for silent bacterial or viral infections of the genitalia
3. High risk for developmental disorders in their infants
4. Decreased risk for abuse during this time
2. Intimate partner violence is a serious public health problem. It should be screened for:
1. At every encounter within the health-care system
2. When a women is being seen for symptoms of depression
3. Throughout pregnancy
4. If a sexually transmitted disease is diagnosed
3. Because of their longer life expectancy, women are more likely than men to experience a disabling
condition. Common conditions in older women that can produce disability include:
1. Depression
2. Panic disorders
3. Dementia
4. All of the above
4. Gender differences between men and women in pharmacokinetics include:
1. More rapid gastric emptying so that drugs absorbed in the stomach have less
exposure to absorption sites
, 2. Higher proportion of body fat so that lipophilic drugs have relatively greater
volumes of distribution
3. Increased levels of bile acids so that drugs metabolized in the intestine have higher
concentrations
4. Slower organ blood flow rates so drugs tend to take longer to be excreted
5. Which of the following drug classes is associated with significant differences in metabolism based
on gender?
1. Beta blockers
2. Antibiotics
3. Serotonin reuptake inhibitors
4. Angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors
6. Since 40% of bone accrual occurs during adolescence, building bone during this time is critical.
Ways to improve bone accrual in adolescents include:
1. Use of bisphosphonates early if dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans
show limited bone accrual
2. Encouraging a daily dietary intake of 1,300 mg of calcium and 400 IU of vitamin
D
3. Avoiding all birth control methods that include progesterone
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Prescribing for women during their childbearing years requires constant awareness of the possibility
of:
1. Pregnancy unless the women is on birth control
2. Risk for silent bacterial or viral infections of the genitalia
3. High risk for developmental disorders in their infants
4. Decreased risk for abuse during this time
2. Intimate partner violence is a serious public health problem. It should be screened for:
1. At every encounter within the health-care system
2. When a women is being seen for symptoms of depression
3. Throughout pregnancy
4. If a sexually transmitted disease is diagnosed
3. Because of their longer life expectancy, women are more likely than men to experience a disabling
condition. Common conditions in older women that can produce disability include:
1. Depression
2. Panic disorders
3. Dementia
4. All of the above
4. Gender differences between men and women in pharmacokinetics include:
1. More rapid gastric emptying so that drugs absorbed in the stomach have less
exposure to absorption sites
, 2. Higher proportion of body fat so that lipophilic drugs have relatively greater
volumes of distribution
3. Increased levels of bile acids so that drugs metabolized in the intestine have higher
concentrations
4. Slower organ blood flow rates so drugs tend to take longer to be excreted
5. Which of the following drug classes is associated with significant differences in metabolism based
on gender?
1. Beta blockers
2. Antibiotics
3. Serotonin reuptake inhibitors
4. Angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors
6. Since 40% of bone accrual occurs during adolescence, building bone during this time is critical.
Ways to improve bone accrual in adolescents include:
1. Use of bisphosphonates early if dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans
show limited bone accrual
2. Encouraging a daily dietary intake of 1,300 mg of calcium and 400 IU of vitamin
D
3. Avoiding all birth control methods that include progesterone
