NEWS You Can Use— Helping Older Adults Make Informed Food Choices by Chih-Cheng Lu, Sarah Francis

“…Most used NEWS information for food choices (79.7%) and resource management (83.9%), with 65.6% preparing NEWS recipes. Gender and age significantly affected NEWS information use (p<0.02), while changing food supply impacted food choices (p=0.046). …”
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Preexisting Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis in Patients with and without Cancer by Junyi Guo, Peng Fang, Wei Shi, Pengcheng Luo, Shengqi Huo, Dan Yan, Moran Wang, Dewei Peng, Lintong Men, Sheng Li, Jiagao Lv, Li Lin

“…Cancer patients were significantly more commonly complicated by ≥90% coronary stenosis than the gender- and age-matched cancer-free controls (9/93 versus 1/93, OR = 4.875, 95% CI: 1.024–23.213, p=0.047). …”
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Coinfection by Hepatitis C Is Strongly Associated with Abnormal CD4/CD8 Ratio in HIV Patients under Stable ART in Salvador, Brazil by Clara Brites-Alves, Eduardo Martins Netto, Carlos Brites

“…Likelihood of AR/PR was similar regardless of gender, after adjusting for nadir CD4+ cells count. …”
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Inequalities in complete childhood immunisation in Nepal: results from a population-based cross-sectional study by In Han Song, Elizabeth Palley, Madhu Sudhan Atteraya

“…The study hypothesised that social inequality factors (eg, gender of a child, age of mother, caste/ethnic affiliation, mother’s socioeconomic status, place of residence and other structural barrier factors such as living in extreme poverty and distance to health facility) affect the likelihood of children being immunised.Design Using gender of a child, age of mother, caste/ethnic affiliation, mother’s socioeconomic status, place of residence and other structural barrier factors such as living in extreme poverty and distance to health facility as independent variables, we performed bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses.Setting This study used data from the most recent nationally representative cross-sectional Nepal Demographic and Health Survey in 2016.Participants The analysis reviewed data from 1025 children aged 12–23 months old.Outcome measures The main outcome variable was childhood immunisation.Results Only 79.2% of children were fully immunised. …”
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Association between teachers' appreciation and students' performance: an analytical cross-sectional analysis by Fozia Fatima, Fuad Ahmad Siddiqi, Sabir Ali

“…Moreover, the study identified that factors such as gender, age, and academic discipline significantly influenced students' perceptions of educators' appreciation, while the distinction between public and private educational backgrounds did not yield any significant variance. …”
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Awareness and attitudes of pregnant women concerning genetic disorders and pregnancy termination in northeastern Iran by Nafiseh Todarbary, Abouzar Irandegani, Mojtaba Meshkat, Aida Gholoobi, Tayebeh Hamzehloei

“…They filled out a checklist comprised of demographic data and questions about abortion decisions facing a child with various genetic disorders or undesired gender. Results The majority (75%) agreed with abortion in cases of anencephaly, while only 19% accepted it for undesired gender. …”
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Donor Heart Utilization following Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Resuscitation: Influence of Donor Characteristics and Wait Times in Transplant Regions by Mohammed Quader, Luke Wolfe, Gundars Katlaps, Vigneshwar Kasirajan

“…Factors favoring heart procurement include younger age, male gender, short CPR duration, and traumatic head injury. …”
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Obesity Is a Marker of Reduction in QoL and Disability by Anna Sirtori, Amelia Brunani, Valentina Villa, Maria Elisa Berselli, Marina Croci, Matilde Leonardi, Alberto Raggi

“…The purpose of this paper is to verify the association between outcome measures of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and disability, BMI, gender, and age. Adult obese patients were clustered using HRQoL (IWQoL-Lite) and disability (WHO-DAS II) scores into three groups: mild, moderate, and high. …”
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Ocular Biometric and Optical Coherence Tomography Parameters in Former Preterm Children: A Cohort Study by Marzieh Najjaran, Siamak Zarei-Ghanavati, Hadi Ostadimoghaddam, Abbasali Yekta, Nasser Shoeibi, Armin Hemmati, Mojtaba Abrishami, Saeed Akhlaghi, Mohammed Ziaei

“…To compare biometric and optical coherence tomography parameters as well as refractive status in preterm children aged 4–8 years with or without retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), and evaluate their correlations with age and gender-matched full-term children. Methods. Retrospective comparative cohort study of four groups of children. …”
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Factors associated with Catastrophic Healthcare Expenditure in communities of Lagos Nigeria: A Megacity experience. by Kikelomo Ololade Wright, Adeyinka Adeniran, Adedayo Aderibigbe, Olufunsho Akinyemi, Temiloluwa Fagbemi, Omoyeni Ayodeji, Biola Adepase, Emmanuella Zamba, Hussein Abdurrazzaq, Faith Oniyire, Olusegun Ogboye, Akin Abayomi

“…Additionally, gender, religion, income, household location, and self-rated health status were significant predictors of household CHE, with adjusted odds ratios of 4.42, 2.45, 1.00, 1.07, and 1.69, respectively.…”
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Sex Differences in the Renal Vascular Responses of AT1 and Mas Receptors in Two-Kidney-One-Clip Hypertension by Zahra Pezeshki, Mehdi Nematbakhsh

“…The prevalence and severity of hypertension, as well as the activity of the systemic and local renin angiotensin systems (RASs), are gender related, with more symptoms in males than in females. …”
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SDG 5 and Local Action Plan Challenges on Protection and Empowerment of Women and Children in Central Java’s Social Conflicts by Sabhita Kusuma Ayusia, Adi Setyorini Fitri, Ramadhanti Wita, Murniati Tri, Huda Marwan Nurul

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Prevalence of Three-Rooted Deciduous Mandibular Molars in the Children of Northwestern Iran by Maryam Khosrozadeh, Maryam Mostafavi, Mohammad Hassan Hamrah, Elham Niknejad

“…Considering symmetry and gender, the occurrence of these three-rooted primary molars did not differ significantly (respectively, p=0.832 and p=0.541). …”
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Machine Learning Model-Based Applications for Food Management in Alzheimer’s Using Regression Analysis Approach by Sajadul Hassan Kumhar, Prabhakara Rao Kapula, Harveen Kaur, Radeep R. Krishna, Mudasir M Kirmani, Vijay Anant Athavale, Mohd Wazih Ahmad

“…Discussion of other available journal articles showed that nutritional intake, Fazekas scores, Hachinski scores, and gender are also indicators for predicting these diseases (p<0.001). …”
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Analysis of the determinants of alcohol consumption and expenditure in Ecuador: an econometric analysis by Ricardo Yajamín-Villamarín, Ricardo Yajamín-Villamarín

“…The findings underscore the necessity for targeted public policies, including gender-specific interventions, anti-smoking strategies, and considerations for regional variations.…”
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High Burden among Older Family Caregivers is Associated with High Prevalence of Symptoms: Data from the Swedish Study “Good Aging in Skåne (GÅS)” by Henrik Ekström, Nathalie Lundholm Auoja, Sölve Elmståhl, Lena Sandin Wranker

“…The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the health and gender aspects of caregiving in an older Swedish population. …”
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Overcoming the threat of anti-bias interventions: Combining self-report and psychophysiological measures to capture the process of change. by Félice van Nunspeet, Esmee M Veenstra, Beatriz Monteiro Graça Casquinho, Naomi Ellemers, Daan Scheepers, Miriam I Wickham, Elena A M Bacchini, Jojanneke van der Toorn, Organizational Behaviour Group

“…In Part 2 of the intervention, we asked participants to reflect on the issue of gender bias, and compared the impact of two experimental instructions. …”
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The Effect of Fish Oil-Based Lipid Emulsion and Soybean Oil-Based Lipid Emulsion on Cholestasis Associated with Long-Term Parenteral Nutrition in Premature Infants by Leilei Wang, Jing Zhang, Jiejin Gao, Yan Qian, Ya Ling

“…There were no statistical differences in terms of gender, feeding intolerance, infection history, birth weight, gestational age, duration of parenteral nutrition, total dosage of amino acid, and age at which feeding began. …”
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Determinants of perceived patient benefit in a longitudinal cohort study of patients with psoriasis and atopic dermatitis by Gloria-Beatrice Wintermann, Susanne Abraham, Eva M. J. Peters, Stefan Beissert, Kerstin Weidner

“…Improved BSA, anxiety/depression, DLQI, male gender and initiation of biological therapy had the most positive effects. …”
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The Frequency of Exfoliation Syndrome in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey by Raşit Kılıç, Hafize Sezer, Sebile Ü. Çomçalı, Serdar Bayraktar, Gökay Göktolga, Yasin Çakmak, Abdi B. Çetin, Tongabay Cumurcu

“…A statistically significant relationship was found between exfoliation syndrome and advancing age, gender, and coronary artery disease.…”
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