Female sex and femininity independently associate with common somatic symptom trajectories.
Aranka Viviënne BalleringKlaas J WardenaarTim C Olde HartmanJudith G M RosmalenPublished in: Psychological medicine (2020)
Female sex and femininity predict symptom trajectories. No large sex differences in the strength of additional predictors were found, thus it may not be clinically useful to distinguish between predictors specific to male or female patients of persistent somatic symptoms.