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Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study used data from the IQVIA\u2122 Disease Analyzer. All women aged \u226518 years with at least one visit to one of 1183 GPs in Germany in 2025 were included. Women attending female and male GPs were matched 1:1 by propensity score on age, statutory health insurance, practice size, consultation frequency in 2025, and the van Walraven comorbidity score (excluding malignancy), yielding 661,485 women per group. Associations between GP sex and the documented prevalence of eight female-specific conditions were examined using conditional logistic regression within the age strata clinically relevant to each condition (from 18\u201330 to &gt;75 years), with the age \u00d7 GP-sex interaction tested in a single model per condition and E-values calculated to assess robustness to unmeasured confounding. Results: The association between GP sex and documented prevalence was strongly age-dependent, with a significant age \u00d7 GP-sex interaction for seven of eight conditions (all p &lt; 0.001). Female GP sex was associated with higher documented prevalence in mid-life, including menopausal and perimenopausal disorders (46\u201360 years: OR 1.37, 95% CI 1.28\u20131.46), endometriosis (31\u201345 years: OR 1.15, 1.03\u20131.28) and benign neoplasm of the female breast and genital organs (46\u201360 years: OR 1.16, 1.04\u20131.29); in the oldest women, the pattern attenuated or reversed (menopausal disorders &gt; 75 years: OR 0.81, 0.72\u20130.90). No association was observed for breast cancer or female genital organ cancer at any age. 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