Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Novel Approaches to the Pharmacology of Gut Motility by Carmelo Scarpignato, Iva Pelosini

“…Among the motor- inhibiting drugs, gut selective muscarinic antagonists (such as zamifenacin and darifenacin), neurokinin2 antagonists (such as MEN-10627 and MEN-11420), beta3-adrenoreceptor agonists (eg, SR-58611A) and GI-selective calcium channel blockers (eg, pinaverium bromide and octylonium) are able to decrease painful contractile activity in the gut (antispasmodic effect), without significantly affecting other body functions. …”
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Association of Wrist Circumference and Waist-to-Height Ratio with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors among Type II Diabetics in a Ghanaian Population by Christian Obirikorang, Yaa Obirikorang, Emmanuel Acheampong, Enoch Odame Anto, Emmanuel Toboh, Evans Adu Asamoah, Bright Amakwaa, Emmanuella Nsenbah Batu, Peter Brenya

“…The optimum cut-off range of WrC to identify individuals at increased cardiometabolic risk was 17.5 to –17.8 cm for men and 16.0 to 16.7 cm for women while that of WHtR was 0.52 to 0.61 for men and 0.53 to 0.59 for women. …”
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Gender-Related Differences in Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Premature Coronary Artery Disease: Insight from the FOCUS Registry by Ya’nan Qu, Ji’e Yang, Feng Zhang, Chenguang Li, Yuxiang Dai, Hongbo Yang, Yang Gao, Yueyi Pan, Kang Yao, Dong Huang, Hao Lu, Jianying Ma, Juying Qian, Junbo Ge

“…Men were more likely to be manifested as total occlusive lesions (p<0.001). …”
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Le flirt à Rabat au Maroc : Engagements des corps et arrangements socio-spatiaux by Chadia Arab, Christophe Guibert

“…The article shows that young women and men innovate in terms of strategies for living out their expressions of intimacy through what we have called “geographical bubble”. …”
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Use of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids and Male Fertility: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Prashant Motiram Mulawkar, Pankaj N. Maheshwari, Vineet Gauhar, Sumeet Gopal Agrawal, Taofiq Olayinka Mohammed, Abhishek Gajendra Singh, Gopal Ramdas Tak, Utsav Shailesh Shah, Deepali Parthsarthi Shukla, Deepali Mamankar

“…Background: Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AASs) are often used by men for bodybuilding and to improve sports performance. …”
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Gambaran Esofagogastroduodenoskopi Pasien Hematemesis dan atau Melena di RSUP M Djamil Padang Periode Januari 2010 - Desember 2013 by Fadhil Alfino Azmi, 1, SSaptino Miro, Detty Iryani

“…According to gender, more men cases than women cases.  Men (64.8%) and women (35.2%) with ratio 1.8 : 1. …”
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Efficacy and prognosis of dapagliflozin in the treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction complicated with type 2 diabetes in Xining area by Jinping Chai, Delian Li, Yanmin Liu, Xiaoling Su

“…Follow-up deadline is December 31, 2023, at the end of follow-up, including the primary endpoint and the secondary endpoint.Results245 patients were included in this study, age 34–94, the average age (61–11), 200 cases (81.63%) of men, women, 45 cases (18.37%), dapagliflozin group of men 92 cases (77.97%) and control group, 108 cases (85.04%). …”
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Access to Health Care and Use of Health Care Services Among Males in Africa: Protocol for a Scoping Review by Nkoleleng Johannah Mashilo, Kelechi Elizabeth Oladimeji, Siphamandla Gumede, Samanta Tresha Lalla-Edward

“…According to some studies, men are less likely than women to seek medical help for issues such as communicable and noncommunicable diseases, depression, substance abuse, physical disabilities, and stressful life events. …”
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Who is to blame for the ‘problem’ of teenage pregnancy? Narratives of blame in two South African communities by Zoe Duby, Brittany Bunce, Chantal Fowler, Kate Bergh, Kim Jonas, Nevilene Slingers, Catherine Mathews, Fareed Abdullah

“…Findings were arranged into key thematic areas that emerged in the data relating to blame for teenage pregnancy: the individual centred ‘wrong-girl’ and developmental discourses, in which blame was apportioned to AGYW for being immature, reckless, irresponsible, disobedient and greedy; the ‘wrong-family’ discourse in which blame was attributed to parents of AGYW for poor parenting and failing to adequately care for the adolescents in their responsibility; the ‘wrong-men’ discourse in which blame was attributed to men for luring AGYW into transactional sex, and for perpetrating gender-based violence; and lastly the ‘wrong-society’ discourse which attributed blame to contextual/structural factors such as poverty, a high volume of unregulated drinking establishments, and a lack of youth-friendly services. …”
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Association between secondhand smoke exposure and hypertension in never smokers: a cross-sectional survey using data from Korean National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey... by Young Sik Park, Chang-Hoon Lee, Sang Haak Lee, Kwang-Ha Yoo, Yu-Il Kim, Chul Min Ahn, Ju Ock Kim, Ju-Heon Park, Jae Yeol Kim, Eun Mi Chun, Tae-Hoon Jung

“…All analyses were stratified by women and men.Results There were 10 532 (women 8987 and men 1545) never smokers. …”
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Income-related inequalities in the prevalence of dental pain intensity in adults: gender differences by Carolina Veloso Lima, Alanna Barros de Arruda, Mayara dos Santos Noronha, Aline Araujo Sampaio, Marise Fagundes Silveira, Andrea Maria Eleuterio de Barros Lima Martins, Raquel Conceição Ferreira, Aline Netto de Godoy, Daniela Marques da Silva Sousa, Patrick Pereira Garcia, Cyrene Piazera Silva Costa, João Gabriel Silva Souza, Bárbara Emanoele Costa Oliveira

“…This study evaluated whether income inequalities are related to increased dental pain intensity among adults and identified differences between women and men.MethodsA probabilistic sample of adults was investigated, and income inequality was evaluated using the Gini Index. …”
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Clinical outcomes after immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated acute kidney injury: a cohort study by Vin-Cent Wu, Ting-Ya Yang, Min-Hsiang Chuang, Hong-Min Lin, Heng-Chih Pan, Yun Chou, Jui-Yi Chen

“…Kaplan-Meier analyses coupled with log-rank tests were conducted to estimate the survival probabilities.Setting Data were sourced from the TriNetX database spanning records from 25 March 2011 to 5 April 2024.Participants Patients with cancer aged ≥18 years treated with ICPi with or without AKI occurrence.Primary and secondary outcome measures The primary outcome was all-cause mortality, and secondary outcomes included major adverse kidney events (MAKE), major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), the composite of MAKE or MACE with death, and end-stage renal disease.Results The study identified 926 patients with cancer who developed ICPi-AKI (mean age, 67.1±11.8 years; 57.4% men). The control group consisted of 48 147 patients treated with ICPi but did not develop AKI (mean age, 65.3±13.1 years; 53.7% men). …”
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Discharge against Medical Advice (DAMA) from an Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital in Saudi Arabia by Ashraf El-Metwally, Nesreen Suliman Alwallan, Ali Amin Alnajjar, Nida Zahid, Khalid Alahmary, Paivi Toivola

“…To further investigate this interaction, men and women were modeled separately in multivariable models using the same covariates. …”
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Waist Circumference, Body Mass Index, and Other Measures of Adiposity in Predicting Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among Peruvian Adults by K. M. Knowles, L. L. Paiva, S. E. Sanchez, L. Revilla, T. Lopez, M. B. Yasuda, N. D. Yanez, B. Gelaye, M. A. Williams

“…Compared to individuals with low-BMI and low-WC, men and women with high-BMI and high- WC had higher odds of elevated fasting glucose, blood pressure, TG, and reduced HDL, while only men in this category had higher odds of elevated CRP. …”
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Clustering of non-communicable disease risk factors among school teachers: A cross-sectional study in Kerala, India by Mini GK, Sangeeth KS, Anand Marthanda Pillai, Sarma PS, Thankappan KR

“…Current tobacco use was reported by 5 % of men, while 13.4 % of men and 2.6 % of women reported alcohol use. …”
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Increased birth rank of homosexual males: disentangling the older brother effect and sexual antagonism hypothesis by Raymond, Michel, Turek, Daniel, Durand, Valérie, Nila, Sarah, Suryobroto, Bambang, Vadez, Julien, Barthes, Julien, Apostolou, Menelaos, Crochet, Pierre-André

“…One intriguing feature of homosexual men is their higher male birth rank compared to heterosexual men. …”
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Oral human papillomavirus (HPV) prevalence and genotyping among healthy adult populations in the United States and Europe: results from the PROGRESS (PRevalence of Oral hpv infecti... by Laia Alemany, Marisa Felsher, Anna R. Giuliano, Tim Waterboer, Haitham Mirghani, Hisham Mehanna, Craig Roberts, Ya-Ting Chen, Núria Lara, Mark Lynam, Mayara Torres, Montse Pedrós, Emilio Sanchez, Jacque Spitzer, Bradley Sirak, Beatriz Quirós, Gema Carretero, Sonia Paytubi, Edith Morais, Miquel Angel Pavón

“…Findings: Of 7674 participants, mean (SD) age was 40.0 (11.9), and 45.8% were males. Among men, any oral HPV prevalence ranged between countries from 6.6% to 15.0% and 1.8%–4.5% for high-risk (HR) types. …”
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The Politics of EU Gender Equality Policies: Prospects for Changing Gender Equality Paradigm at the EU by Nazlı Kazanoğlu

“…Drawing on a comprehensive literature review and the content analysis of official EU policy texts, the article contends that the EU gender policies have shifted away from serving to change the redistribution of work between men and women, towards improving women’s employment opportunities.…”
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Les sociétés jbala et la nature by Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Dominique Caubet, Younes Hmimsa, Ángeles Vicente

“…This special issue, at the crossroads of ethnobotanical, linguistic and anthropological interdisciplinary approaches, reveals the modalities of interactions between men, nature and ‘otherness’ in the Jbala and the Rif regions, in Morocco. …”
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A Brief Survey of Gender Parity in the Theatre Industry by Yeliz Biber Vangölü, Florentina Gümüş

“…Studies conducted since the 1980s have systematically pointed out the lack of equal opportunities for men and women in the theatre industry. Our findings comply with relevant studies and attest that gender parity is far from being attained despite efforts to include more women in theatre in various roles.…”
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