Hyperuricemia is a Risk Factor for One-Year Overall Survival in Elderly Female Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome by Shi Tai, Xuping Li, Zhaowei Zhu, Liang Tang, Hui Yang, Liyao Fu, Xinqun Hu, Zhenfei Fang, Shenghua Zhou

“…Multivariable regression analysis models showed that hyperuricemia was an independent risk factor of 1-year all-cause mortality in women (OR = 2.539, 95% CI 1.001–6.453, P=0.050), but not in men (OR = 0.931, 95% CI 0.466–1.858, P=0.839) after adjustment for confounding variables. …”
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Insights of Outcome after Resection of Small Nonfunctioning Neuroendocrine Pancreatic Tumors by Estela Regina Ramos Figueira, Julia Fray Ribeiro, Thiago Costa Ribeiro, Ricardo Jureidini, Guilherme Naccache Namur, Thiago Nogueira Costa, Telesforo Bacchella, Ivan Cecconello

“…Of the 14 patients included, 35.71% were men, and the average age was 52.36±20.36 years. …”
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Evacuation after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident Is a Cause of Diabetes: Results from the Fukushima Health Management Survey by Hiroaki Satoh, Tetsuya Ohira, Mitsuaki Hosoya, Akira Sakai, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Akira Ohtsuru, Yukihiko Kawasaki, Hitoshi Suzuki, Atsushi Takahashi, Gen Kobashi, Kotaro Ozasa, Seiji Yasumura, Shunichi Yamashita, Kenji Kamiya, Masafumi Abe

“…This study included Japanese men and women who were living near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima prefecture before the disaster. …”
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Non-communicable airway disease and air pollution in three African Countries: Benin, Cameroon and The Gambia by B. Awokola, H. Lawin, O. Johnson, A. Humphrey, D. Nzogo, L. Zubar, G. Okello, S. Semple, E. Awokola, G. Amusa, N. Mohammed, C. Jewell, A. Erhart, K. Mortimer, G. Devereux, B.H. Mbatchou-Ngahane

“…RESULTS: Of the 98 adults recruited, 56 were men; the mean age was 51.6 years (standard deviation ±17.5). …”
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Chronic Energy Deficiency and Its Determinant Factors among Adults Aged 18–59 Years in Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Samuel Dagne, Yonatan Menber, Yosef Wassihun, Gedefaw Dires, Atitegeb Abera, Seteamlak Adane, Melese Linger, Zelalem T. Haile

“…The Ministry of Health with other partners should strictly monitor and evaluate interventions that are being applied and should give focus to adult men to prevent malnutrition.…”
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Associations among circulating sphingolipids, β-cell function, and risk of developing type 2 diabetes: A population-based cohort study in China. by Huan Yun, Liang Sun, Qingqing Wu, Geng Zong, Qibin Qi, Huaixing Li, He Zheng, Rong Zeng, Liming Liang, Xu Lin

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>The current study included 826 men and 1,148 women who were aged 50-70 years, from Beijing and Shanghai, and without T2D in 2005 and who were resurveyed in 2011. …”
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Socio-economic inequalities in access to COVID-19 tests in France in 2020: evidence from the EPICOV socio-epidemiological cohort by Pierre-Yves Geoffard, Pierre-Yves Geoffard, Florence Jusot, Antoine Sireyjol, Josiane Warszawski, Nathalie Bajos

“…For individuals who had no close relative test positive but reported COVID-19-like symptoms, women were 1.04 (95%CI [1.01–1.06]) more likely than men to be tested, and testing decreased with age up to 35. …”
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Effectiveness of an Impella Versus Intra‐Aortic Balloon Pump in Patients Who Received Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation by Yuji Nishimoto, Hiroyuki Ohbe, Jun Nakata, Toru Takiguchi, Mikio Nakajima, Yusuke Sasabuchi, Toshiaki Isogai, Hiroki Matsui, Yukihito Sato, Tetsuya Watanabe, Takahisa Yamada, Masatake Fukunami, Hideo Yasunaga

“…The mean age of patients was 65 years, 77% were men, and 57% had acute coronary syndrome. After propensity score matching, the patient characteristics were well balanced between the groups. …”
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The autoimmune disease risk variant NCF1-His90 is associated with a reduced risk of tuberculosis in women by Xinjun Hu, Shasha Li, Renliang Huang, Ziwei Fu, Chenyu Ma, Zheng Cheng, Hongjun Hu, Qiaomiao Zhou, Frank Petersen, Xinhua Yu, Xinhua Yu, Junfeng Zheng

“…Additionally, healthy individuals with the NCF1 rs201802880 AA genotype had significantly lower circulating white blood cell (5.56 ± 1.78 vs 6.43 ± 1.59, p=0.003) and neutrophil (3.23 ± 1.20 vs 3.74 ± 1.23, p = 0.02) counts compared to those with the GG or GA genotypes, with this difference being more pronounced in women than in men.ConclusionThis study demonstrates that the autoimmune disease-causal NCF1 variant is associated with a protective effect against TB infection.…”
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Hypomagnesemia, insulin secretion and action in patients without diabetes, 1 year after kidney transplantation by Rasmus K. Carlsen, Anders Åsberg, Anders Åsberg, My Svensson, My Svensson, Kåre I. Birkeland, Kåre I. Birkeland, Hanne S. Jørgensen, Hanne S. Jørgensen, Iain Bressendorff, Hanne L. Gulseth, Hanne L. Gulseth, Karsten Midtvedt, Espen Nordheim, Espen Nordheim, Trond G. Jenssen

“…Participants were categorized into tertiles by plasma magnesium levels, (&lt;0.7, 07–0.78,&gt;0.78 mmol/L).ResultsWe included 208 patients (62% men, median age 51 years). Patients in the lowest compared to the highest magnesium tertile had higher measured GFR (mean 59 vs. 49 mL/min, p = 0.002), tacrolimus trough concentration (mean 6.7 vs. 5.5 μg/L, p &lt; 0.001), and fasting plasma glucose (mean 5.5 vs. 5.3 mmol/L, p = 0.03). …”
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Temporal trends of presumed cardiac origin out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incidence in Guangzhou, southern China: A 10-year consecutive analysis by Tianqi Yang, Cai Wen, Yan Zhang, Yanjun Xu, Junpeng Liu, Zhenzhou Li, Shuangming Li, Na Peng, Hao Wu, Li Li, Tao Yu

“…The crude and ASIR of OHCA increased in men, while the ASIR changed more moderately in women. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Management of Functional Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: A Single Institution 20-Year Experience with 286 Patients by Yuqing Qu, Haoming Li, Xianling Wang, Yulong Chen, Qinghua Guo, Yu Pei, Jin Du, Jingtao Dou, Jianming Ba, Zhaohui Lv, Yiming Mu

“…Nine patients were diagnosed with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) in which all the associated functional PanNENs were insulinomas. …”
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Level of systemic inflammation markers and clinical course in patients with stable ischemic heart disease with and without coronary atherosclerosis by V.I. Tseluyko, T.V. Pylova

“…There were 48.6 % (n = 51) men and 51.4 % (n = 54) women. Based on angiography data, patients were divided into two groups: group I – 53 patients with IHD and non-obstructive coronary arteries (INOCA), group II – 52 patients diagnosed with stable IHD with more than 50 % stenosis. …”
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Affective valence predictors from real-world based short sprint interval training by Stefano Benítez-Flores, Flávio A. de S. Castro, Eduardo Caldas Costa, Daniel Boullosa, Todd A. Astorino

“…Nevertheless, the physiological and psychological predictors of affective valence during supramaximal intensities including short sprint interval training (sSIT) have not yet been elucidated. Seventeen (7 women/10 men) moderately active young adults (age ​= ​[28.2 ​± ​5.6] years; V˙O2max [maximum oxygen consumption] ​= ​[52.9 ​± ​8.1] mL·kg−1·min−1; BMI [body mass index] ​= ​[24 ​± ​2] kg·m−2) completed four low-volume running sSIT sessions (10 ​× ​4 ​s efforts with 30 ​s of passive recovery). …”
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Factors influencing gender and youth integration in agricultural research and innovation in Africa by Mastewal Yami, Oyewale Abioye, Sougrynoma Zainatou Sore, Aline Mugisho, Tahirou Abdoulaye

“…Some R & I projects made promising efforts in developing youth and gender-specific work packages as well as action plans outlining the end-to-end engagement of men, women, and youth in R & I. However, there was an imbalance in gender integration vis-à-vis youth integration as youth got little consideration in the R & I policies and practices, thereby reinforcing intergenerational inequality. …”
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Ekspresi Gen Family Bcl-2 dan Ekspresi Gen Protein Kanal Ion Vdac1 pada Oligozoospermia by Arni Amir

“…Pada penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa overekspresi VDAC dan BAC berkaitan dengan kejadian oligozoospermia<br />Kata kunci: Oligozoospermia, VDAC, Bax, Bcl-2, ekspresi gen</p><p>Abstract<br />One form of infertility in men is the number of spermatozoa which is less than normal (Oligozoospermia). …”
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Prevalence of Hypertension and Associated Factors in Lubumbashi City, Democratic Republic of Congo: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study by Jacques Mbaz Musung, Placide Kambola Kakoma, Clarence Kaut Mukeng, Stéphane Lubamba Tshimanga, Jeef Paul Munkemena Banze, Nathalie Kayomb Kaj, Martin Kazadi Kamuna, Jimmy Kasali Mwamba, Dophra Ngoy Nkulu, Philippe Bianga Katchunga, Olivier Mukuku, Emmanuel Kiyana Muyumba

“…This prevalence was statistically higher in women than in men (34.5% vs. 31.7%; p=0.024). After logistic regression, the risk of hypertension increased with age >50 years (aOR = 5.85 [5.19–6.60]), overweight (aOR = 1.25 [1.11–1.41]), obesity (aOR = 1.25 [1.11–1.41]), central obesity (aOR = 1.37 [1.16–1.61]), diabetes mellitus (aOR = 2.19 [1.63–2.95]), alcohol consumption (aOR = 1.21 [1.05–1.39]), nonconsumption of vegetables (aOR = 1.35 [1.02–1.80]), and history of stroke (aOR = 2.57 [1.88–3.51]). …”
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Increasing incidences and changes in treatment trends of clavicle fractures in adults during 2 decades in Denmark: a nationwide study on data from the Danish National Patient Regis... by Ida Tryggedsson, Bjarke Viberg, Per Hviid Gundtoft, Ilija Ban, Søren Overgaard, Tazio Maleitzke, Arvind von Keudell

“…Results: There were 81,597 clavicle fractures recorded; 67% were in men and the mean age was 50.3 years (standard deviation [SD] 19.5). …”
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Marital Status and Survival in Patients Diagnosed with Melanoma by J. A. Maas, A. J. Monreal, E. L. Diaz, G. Castro, P. Rodriguez de la Vega, M. Varella

“…Married patients, including both men and women, had a 35% reduction in the risk of death after melanoma diagnosis compared with single patients, and mechanisms independent of earlier detection, such as social support, may play a role in survival in patients with melanoma.…”
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Echocardiography indicators in patients with atherosclerosis of peripheral arteries of the lower extremities dependent on T(–786)C polymorphism of the endothelial nitric oxide synt... by V.I. Tseluyko, O.D. Yarova

“…Patients were divided into two clinical groups: group I – 63 (63 %) men without coronary heart disease, group II – 37 (37 %) patients with CHD. …”
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