A Review of Adult Obesity Prevalence, Trends, Risk Factors, and Epidemiologic Methods in Kuwait by Stalo Karageorgi, Osama Alsmadi, Kazem Behbehani

“…Rates were significantly higher in women than those in men. Studies that examined trends showed an increase in obesity prevalence between 1980 and 2009. …”
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L’émergence d’une sexualité juvénile hors mariage chez les jeunes de Sidi Ifni (Maroc) by Leila Boufraioua

“…According to the survey, 50% of men who married between the ages of 20 and 24 reported having had premarital sexuality with their future spouse. …”
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Trends in the disease burden of cystic echinococcosis in China, 1990–2044 analysis and forecasting study by Jianping Li, Jingjing Wei

“…The overall disease burden of cystic echinococcosis is projected to increase gradually between 2020 and 2044, with men exhibiting higher incidence, prevalence, and DALY rates than women.…”
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Gender and HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh: A review by Joydeb Garai

“…Along with biological susceptibility, other major causes of this vulnerability of women and girls are gender inequality, sexual abuse and violence, social stigma, inability to decision making power, economic dependency and men’s sexual power and privilege over women. This paper helps policy makers and invites them to take special care to reduce gender inequality before implementing any policy for the prevention of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh as well as in low income countries.…”
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The Impact of Psychiatric Patient Boarding in Emergency Departments by B. A. Nicks, D. M. Manthey

“…The mean psychiatric patient age was 42.5 years (SD 13.1 years), with 2.7 times more women than men. ED LOS was significantly longer for psychiatric admissions (1089 min, CI (1039–1140) versus 340 min, CI (304–375); 𝑃<0.001) when compared to non-psychiatric admissions. …”
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Surgical Treatment of the Oroantral Fistula in a Patient with Myasthenia Gravis: Clinical Considerations and Anesthetical Management by Elif Betül Yıldırım, Turan Kazan, Yeliz Kılınç, Necmiye Şengel

“…Women are more affected than men. Fluctuating weakness and easy fatigability of skeletal muscles are observed when the limbs are involved. …”
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Ageing in the right place—usability of a web-based housing counselling service by Frida Nordeström, Marianne Granbom, Susanne Iwarsson, Magnus Zingmark

“…The study’s aim was to evaluate the usability of the ARP as regards content, design, specific functions, and self-administration as a mode of delivery and to lay the ground for further optimisation.Material and method Nine women and five men (aged 66–82) completed a series of tasks using the ARP. …”
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Frequency of Sportive Injuries in Amateur Athletes and Factors Affecting Injuries by Arif Satıcı, Osman İmamoğlu, Egemen Ermiş

“…This study aims to investigate frequency of sport injuries and factors affecting injuries to amateur athletes in Samsun region.666 amateur athletes serving in various amateur sports clubs in Samsun province were selected randomly. 462 participants were men, 204 were women. 240 athletes in individual sports branches (wrestling, table tennis, taekwondo, wrist wrestling, wushu, athletics), and 426 athletes in team sports (basketball, football, handball, volleyball) constitute the sample. …”
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Facing a blind alley - Experiences of stress-related exhaustion: a qualitative study by Lilas Ali, Andreas Fors, Inger Ekman, Sara Alsén

“…In Sweden, stress-related mental illness is currently the most frequent reason for sick leave.Objective This study aimed to explore patients’ experiences of stress-related exhaustion.Design A qualitative study with interview data analysed using a phenomenological hermeneutic method.Setting Participants were selected from public primary healthcare centres in a larger city in western Sweden.Participants Seven women and five men on sick leave from work due to stress-related exhaustion were included in the study.Findings Stress-related exhaustion was experienced as a loss of access to oneself and one’s context and feelings of being trapped and lost in life. …”
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Conceptualization of disaster risk. Towards the Understanding of its construction by Mariela Vivier, Celia Torrens

“…It is explicit in the development of the work that the risk is the result of a social construction, in which, the physical conditions of nature are the trigger, but the process of occupation of the territories propitiates the existence of risk and disaster scenarios. When the action of men is present, risk is the product of the actions of a society that does not recognize and does not respect the laws of nature. …”
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The Issue of Grooms Wearing Henna on Their Fingers: An Analysis Based on the Syafii School and Fatwa in Malaysia by Mohd Azhar Abdullah, Irwan Mohd Subri, Muhammad Lukman Ibrahim, Muhammad Amiri Abdul Ghani

“…This causes confusion between the prohibition of men wearing henna on their hands due to tashabbuh and women with the need to celebrate the local uruf. …”
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Investigating the role of age, admission systolic blood pressure, and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in predicting left ventricular hypertrophy among patients with primary hyperten... by Xiaoyong Hu, Djandan Tadum Arthur Vithran, Zhaoying Yang, Ting Zou, Rui Tang, Hongjian Li

“…Patients were classified into LVH and non-LVH groups; LVH was defined as left ventricular mass index (LVMI) >115 g/m 2 for men and >95 g/m 2 for women. Univariate and multivariate logistic analysis were used to identify risk factors for LVH. …”
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OUTSTANDING RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS: DIMITRY AND ELENA WENTZEL by V. I. LEVIN

“…Wentzel contacted with the famous literary men (A.T. Tvardovsky, K.I. Chukovsky, A. Galich, etc.). …”
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The Others in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre: A Postcolonial-Orientalist and Feminist Reading by Filiz Barın Akman

“…She is the colonized and racial other, a madwoman who threatens British men as embodied in Mr. Rochester, and women embodied as in Jane, and her final self-destruction for Jane’s sake are poignant plot devices to this end. …”
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Proprioception in Above-the-Knee Amputees with Artificial Limbs by E. P. Latanioti, A. G. Angoules, E. C. Boutsikari

“…Materials and Methods. 22 patients (18 men, 4 women), 24–65 years old (mean: 42), who had undergone above-the-knee joint amputation and underwent evaluation of proprioception using joint reposition in a predetermined angle of 15° knee flexion. …”
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Gambaran Indeks Eritrosit pada Pasien Penyakit Ginjal Kronik yang Menjalani Hemodialisis di RSUP H. Adam Malik Medan by Yosephin Irene Togatorop, Nindia Sugih Arto

“…Results: From 149 study samples, 92 people (61.7%) were male, 57 people were female (38.3%), more in the age range of 55-64 years, hemoglobin (Hb) on average in low grades (98.9% men, 94.7% women), and erythrocyte index (MCV, MCH, MCHC) averages in the normal range. …”
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What Drives Responses to Willingness-to-pay Questions? A Methodological Inquiry in the Context of Hypertension Self-management by Billingsley Kaambwa, Stirling Bryan, Emma Frew, Emma Bray, Sheila Greenfield, Richard J McManus

“…**Conclusion:** The majority of hypertensive patients who had taken part in a self-management study were prepared to purchase the self-monitoring equipment using their own funds, more so for men, those with higher incomes and those with greater satisfaction. …”
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Relationships between Loneliness and Occupational Dysfunction in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study by Daiki Nakashima, Keisuke Fujii, Yuta Kubo, Kyosuke Yorozuya

“…Seventy-four older adults (12 men and 62 women; mean age 73.9±8.3 years) completed a questionnaire survey that included the Japanese version of the UCLA Loneliness Scale Version 3 and the Classification and Assessment of Occupational Dysfunction (CAOD). …”
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Role of the CHADS-VASc score in predicting hospital stay and 90-day readmission among patients with atrial fibrillation in Syria by Ibrahim Antoun, Alamer Alkhayer, Alkassem Alkhayer, Yaman Mahfoud, Ahmed Kotb, Riyaz Somani, G André Ng, Mustafa Zakkar

“…Results In total, 717 patients were included; 320 (45%) were readmitted to the hospital within 90 days (58% men, 65% aged <65 years). Inpatient mortality was 4%; the median LOS was 2 days. …”
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Étude ethnotaxonomique des espèces fruitières spontanées comestibles chez l’ethnie Diola d’Oussouye (Sénégal) by Yves Djihounouck, Doudou Diop, César Bassène, Mame Samba Mbaye, Richard Demba Diop, Babacar Faye, Kandioura Noba

“…In fact, we had 80.77 % men against 19.23 % women. Our results showed that among 62 wild botanical species, only 4 were domesticated. …”
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