Hypercysteinemia, A Potential Risk Factor for Central Obesity and Related Disorders in Azores, Portugal by Ana Lima, Rita Ferin, Mafalda Bourbon, José Baptista, M. Leonor Pavão

“…No differences in the prevalence of classical CAD risk factors were found between the study groups, except in physical inactivity and related central obesity, which were both higher in PDL men than in those from Lisbon. Hypercysteinemia, which seems to result from sulfur-rich amino acid diets and/or vitamin B12 malabsorption, revealed to be significantly more prevalent in PDL vs. …”
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Complications In The Management Of High-Energy Closed Fractures Of Proximal Tibial Plateau. A Retrospective Study by Rahman Rasool Akhtar, Waqas Ali, Riaz Ahmed, Muhammad Nadeem Kashmiri, Hira Waris, Muhammad Haider

“…Results: This study involved a total of 132 patients.Mean age was 35.15±10.59.115(87%) were men and 17(13%) were women out of 132. A total of 39 out of 132 patients experienced complications (29.54%). …”
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The a criminal’s identity as an element of forensic characteristics of causing negligent serious or moderate bodily harm by K. M. Penzieva

“…According to the results of the conducted research, the following characteristic features of criminals who commit bodily harm due to carelessness have been identified, namely they are mainly adult men who commit the crime alone, without prior training, have secondary special and general secondary education, are unmarried, are temporarily employed in a low-paid job or not work, were not in a state of intoxication at the time of committing the crime, mainly had no previous convictions.…”
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Study psychoemotional status in patients planning keratorefractive surgery using SMILE procedure by I.V. Dutchin, O.V. Kolenko, O.B. Dutchina, E.L. Sorokin, Yu.V. Kutuzova

“…At the first stage, 42 patients (29%) were identified with increased level of psychological anxiety: 20 men and 22 women. Their average age was 35 years. …”
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The adductor pollicis muscle thickness is not associated with physical function, lean mass, and nutritional status in patients on maintenance hemodialysis by Débora Moreira Morais, Isadora Cordeiro Trombim, Cassiana Regina de Góes, Barbara Perez Vogt

“…The nutritional status was evaluated by the Malnutrition Inflammation Score (MIS).ResultsFifty-one patients were included, 60.8% men, mean age 58.4 ± 12.6 years. There were no significant correlations of APMT with physical function, muscle mass and nutritional status. …”
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Association between the dietary inflammatory index and depressive symptoms in adults with metabolic syndrome: a cross-sectional study from the NHANES database by Jinshun You, Jinshun You, Shujie Xia

“…Subgroup analyses revealed that men were more likely to experience depressive symptoms among adults with MS. …”
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Frequency and perception of buffalo meat consumption by the population of Belem do Pará, Brazil by Pamella M. M. de Jesus, Mayrla F. Dantas, Luiz H. M. Martins, Antônio V. C. Barbosa, Natalia G. S. Barbosa

“…It was found that 51.9% of the consumers were women and 48.1% were men aged between 15 and 29 years; the family environment was composed of three to four people, and 41.6% had income between a minimum wage; 51.9% had completed high school. …”
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Mortality and reoperations following treatment of acetabular fractures in patients ≥ 70 years: a retrospective cohort study of 247 patients by Johan Ljungdahl, Björn Hernefalk, Anna Pallin, Anders Brüggemann, Nils P Hailer, Olof Wolf

“…Results: 247 patients (67% men) with a median age of 80 years (range 70–102) were included. …”
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Prevalence of Malnutrition According to the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition Criteria in Community-dwelling Older Adults in Turkey by Filiz DEMIRDAG, Esma Nur KOLBASI, Ozlem PEHLIVAN

“…However, women had higher malnutrition rates than men (26.0% vs. 21.0%) (risk ratio 0.757, 95% CI 0.494-1.160, p=0.207). …”
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Clinicopathologic Significance of CXCL12 and CXCR4 Expressions in Patients with Colorectal Cancer by Naomi Yoshuantari, Didik Setyo Heriyanto, Susanna Hilda Hutajulu, Johan Kurnianda, Ahmad Ghozali

“…Colorectal cancer (CRC) is both a global and national burden, being the third most common malignancy in men and the second in women, worldwide. The prognosis of CRC is affected by various factors like the histological grade, angiolymphatic invasion, and distant metastases. …”
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Adaptation and combination of two scales to measure dispositional gratitude in health sciences faculty: a psychometric analysis by Jesus Alfonso Beltran-Sanchez, José Moral de la Rubia, Adrian Valle de la O, Josue Omar Nava-Manzo, Angeles Dominguez

“…The Gratitude Questionnaire, Work Questionnaire and Brief Interactive Optimism-Garcia was applied to 110 women, 104 men and 2 who prefer not to specify their gender. …”
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Indian Psychiatric Society multicentre study: Diagnostic patterns, comorbidity and prescription practices for patients with Dementia by CT Sudhir Kumar, Mathew Varghese, Venugopal Duddu, Sridhar Vaitheswaran, Shrikant Srivastava, KS Shaji, Sanju George, Narendra Kumar Singh, Nishant Goyal, Ajay Bakhla, S Shaji, Vikas Menon, Tajamul Hussain, Sandeep Grover, Aseem Mehra, Lokesh Kumar Singh, A Purushotham, Avinash Desousa, Nilesh Shah, Sagar Karia, I Anand, Shafana Afroon, Ritambhara Mehta, Gargi Kukreja, Dimple Dadarwala, KL Vidya, PT Sivakumar, Preeti Sinha, Shivashankar Reddy, Thomas Isaac, Mina Chandra

“…Three hundred twenty one (54.8%) were men. Alzheimer’s disease (349; 59.6%) was the most frequent diagnosis followed by vascular dementia (117; 20%). …”
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The Effect of Nintedanib in Post-COVID-19 Lung Fibrosis: An Observational Study by Narongkorn Saiphoklang, Pimchanok Patanayindee, Pitchayapa Ruchiwit

“…Mean age was 64.43 ± 14.59 years, and 54.8% were men. At baseline, SpO2/FiO2 ratio before treatment was 200.57 ± 105.77 in the nintedanib group and 326.90 ± 137.10 in the control group (P=0.002). …”
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Acupuncture for Chronic Prostatitis or Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Juanhong Pan, Song Jin, Quan Xie, Ying Wang, Zhipeng Wu, Jianfeng Sun, Tai Pin Guo, Di Zhang

“…Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is a complex male dysfunction, mostly seen in young and middle-aged men with a history of more than 3 months. As a traditional therapy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncture has been proven an effective method to treat CP/CPPS in recent years. …”
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Attitudes towards the Unified State Exam as a Tool for Combating Corruption in Admissions to National Universities by A. A. Maksimenko, L. N. Dukhanina, G. A. Porosenkov, D. V. Krylova, A. M. Bushueva

“…In this regard, it is of particular interest to study the opinions of those who faced this examination procedure (graduates who passed the unified state exam, as well as their parents).During the online survey conducted on March 04, 2024, 711 people (45.3% men, 54.7% women, M = 34.73 years) were interviewed who replied that they and/or their child participated in the exam procedure. …”
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Classifying Food Items During an Eating Occasion: A Machine Learning Approach with Slope Dynamics for Windowed Kinetic Data by Ileana Baldi, Corrado Lanera, Mohammad Junayed Bhuyan, Paola Berchialla, Luca Vedovelli, Dario Gregori

“…A total of 20 healthy subjects (9 women and 11 men, aged 20–31 years) were equipped with two commercial smartwatches during four eating occasions under semi-naturalistic conditions. …”
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Ajuste de tiempos de inmersión en técnicas combinadas de deshidratado de duraznos by D.P. URFALINO

“…Durante la realización de los ensayos se determinó peso y volu- men, antes y después de la etapa de deshidratado osmótico (DO) y de la etapa de deshidratado convectivo. …”
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The Clinicopathological Characteristics and Prognoses of dMMR Gastric Adenocarcinoma Patients by Jie Wang, Yanfeng Xi, Jian Zhao, Xuetong Rong, Weidong Lu, Yusheng Wang

“…In this study, dMMR GC was more common in men, and the median age was 63.5 years. Most of the lesions were in the antrum and showed the combined deletion of MLH1 and PMS2. dMMR GC patients tended to be early stage, and the prognosis of those with early-stage GC was better. dMMR GC patients with vascular tumor thrombus or >6 LN metastases had a high recurrence rate and poor survival outcome.…”
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Opportunities and challenges for enhancing preconception health in primary care: qualitative study with women from ethnically diverse communities by Joe Kai, Nadeem Qureshi, Helena Tuomainen, Laura Cross-Bardell, Mandeep Bhoday

“…A preference for female professionals, engaging men, and enhancing access for younger people or women less disposed to general practice, in educational and other settings were highlighted.Conclusions Raising preconception health when this has heightened clinical or social resonance for women may hold promise for initiating more systematic intervention. …”
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Older Adults Accessing HIV Care and Treatment and Adherence in the IeDEA Central Africa Cohort by Jamie Newman, Jeniffer Iriondo-Perez, Jennifer Hemingway-Foday, Anna Freeman, Wilfred Akam, Ashu Balimba, Lucien Kalenga, Marcel Mbaya, Brigitte Mfangam Molu, Henri Mukumbi, Théodore Niyongabo, Joseph Atibu, Innocent Azinyue, Modeste Kiumbu

“…Those aged 50+ were more evenly distributed between women and men (56% versus 44%) as compared to those aged 18–49 (71% versus 29%) and were more likely to be hypertensive (8% versus 3%) (P<0.05). …”
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