Table 2.

Assessment of sex/gender terminology used in original investigations, overall and by journal and study type

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)