Table 2 Assessment of sex/gender terminology used in original investigations, overall and by journal and study type
From: Measuring the data gap: inclusion of sex and gender reporting in diabetes research
Sex/Gender Assessment Metric | All original investigations N = 155 | Original investigations in general medicine journals N = 23 | Original investigations in diabetes-specific journals N = 132 | Randomized clinical trials N = 115 | Observational studies N = 40 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Did not use standard terminology for sex/gender | 15 (9.7) | 1 (4.3) | 14 (10.6) | 13 (9.7) | 2 (5.0) |
Did use standard terminology for sex/gender | 98 (63.2) | 15 (65.2) | 83 (62.9) | 62 (46.3) | 36 (90.0) |
Terms sex or gender not used at all | 42 (27.1) | 7 (30.4) | 35 (26.5) | 40 (29.9) | 2 (5.0) |