Risk of Multidrug Resistant Bacteria Acquisition in Patients with Declared β-Lactam Allergy during Hospitalization in Intensive Care Unit: A Retrospective Cohort Study (2007-2018) by Alessio Strazzulla, Maria Concetta Postorino, Nabil Belfeki, Laura Iordache, Astrid de Pontfarcy, Aurelia Pitsch, Pierre Leroy, Sebastien Jochmans, Mehran Monchi, Sylvain Diamantis

“…No differences in mortality, duration of hospitalization, and carriage of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus were reported. Female gender was the only factor associated with β-lactam allergy at the multivariate analysis. …”
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A Case of Status Epilepticus in a Patient Experiencing an Acute Attack of Hereditary Angioedema by Danielle Weinberg, Steven Gayda, Kyle Hultz, Hanan Atia, Brian Kohen, Eric Boccio

“…Case Report: A 54-year-old female with past medical history significant for HAE-nl-C1-INH presented to the emergency department (ED) for an acute attack of HAE and seizures. …”
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Cardiovascular and Metabolic Adverse Events of Endocrine Therapies in Women with Breast Cancer: A Disproportionality Analysis of Reports in the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System by Shaimaa Elshafie, Lorenzo Villa‐Zapata, Randall L. Tackett, Iman Y. Zaghloul, Henry N. Young

“…Methods Reports in the FAERS through December 2023 were analyzed for documented reactions to tamoxifen, letrozole, anastrozole, and exemestane in female breast cancer patients. Standardized queries were used to identify cases of cardiovascular (myocardial infarction, heart failure, arrhythmia, stroke) and metabolic (hypertension, dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia) disorders. …”
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Temporomandibular Joint Ankylosis among Patients at Saint Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia: A 9-Year Retrospective Study by Dereje Mekonnen, Andamlak Gizaw, Bruktawit Kebede

“…Forty-two (44.2%) of the TMJA cases were males, while the remaining 53 (55.8%) were females with a male to female ratio of 0.79 : 1. 20–29-year-old patients were the most affected, 36 (37.9%), followed by the 30 to 39 years age group, 33 (34.7%). …”
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Retrospective review of dosing trends in botulinum toxin injections for the treatment of adductor spasmodic dysphonia in a long-term cohort by Gabrielle French, J. Douglas Bosch, Derrick R. Randall

“…Results One-hundred and twenty-six patients (61% female, mean age = 53 ± 15.5 years) met inclusion criteria and received laryngeal EMG-guided BT injections for up to twenty-two years and as many as 79 treatments. …”
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Effectiveness of a Mixed Martial Arts-Based Training Program in Reducing Obesity and Improving Cardiovascular Health Among Women in Indonesia by Surya Adi Saputra, Septiani Dewi Hamni, Exie Shirley, Helen Knowles

“…The research employed a quasi-experimental design with 20 female participants (age range 20-45 years) recruited from the Malang area. …”
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Measuring the Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patient in Hospital Jitra: A Population-Based Cohort Study by Norazila Abdul Ghani, Sharifah Nor Faiza Syed Hassan, Rusyidah Zainol Abidin, Zarmisha Zakaria, Fatin Farhana Ahmad Nasir, Ahmad Zulfitri Azmi

“…Results: 60.4% of the patients were female and 85.7% Malay with mean age of 62.15 years old. …”
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Laparoscopic Banded One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass: A Single-Center Series by Michela Campanelli, Emanuela Bianciardi, Domenico Benavoli, Giulia Bagaglini, Giorgio Lisi, Paolo Gentileschi

“…Hospital records were used to assess weight loss, comorbidity resolution, and any complications either in the short or medium term. Results. 54 Female and 32 male patients were included with a mean age of 43 years (25–64), preoperative body mass index of 42 kg/m2 (35–49), and preoperative weight of 114 kg (86–162). …”
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Cross-sectional seroprevalence study of bovine herpesvirus 1, bovine respiratory syncytial virus, and parainfluenza virus 3 in cattle from Villavicencio, Colombia by Catalina Ballesteros González, Karen Briñez, Julio César Tobón, Danny Wilson Sanjuanelo Corredor, Fernando Vicosa Bauermann, Blanca Lisseth Guzmán Barragán

“…Two simultaneous risk factors for all three diseases were identified: female sex and age over 3 years. The risk factors for BoHV-1 were the sale of animals, purchase of animals, history of abortions, and Brahman breed. …”
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The Role of Fatigue in Return to Sport Testing Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction by Justin C Tallard, Corbin Hedt, Bradley S Lambert, Patrick C McCulloch

“… # Methods Participants (n=21 \[Male = 15, Female = 6\]; AGE = 24.6 ± 9.3) were at least six months post ACLR and in rehabilitation. …”
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Давньоіранське зображення хронотопу в передачі вторинного джерела by Юрій Писаренко

“…The points of the equinoxes and solstices, marked, respectively, with male and female signs, as well as a number of symbols accompanying them, including symmetrical images of day and night «duck-horses» around the symbol of the sun, the skin of a sacrificial eight-legged horse, symbols of spinning and weaving – a weaving shuttle and a reel for the spun thread. …”
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Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Tear Samples of Patients with Systemic Sclerosis by Anikó Rentka, Jolán Hársfalvi, András Berta, Krisztina Köröskényi, Zoltán Szekanecz, Gabriella Szücs, Peter Szodoray, Ádám Kemény-Beke

“…Forty-three patients (40 female and 3 men, mean (SD) age 61 (48–74) years) with SSc and 27 healthy controls were enrolled in this study. …”
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Occult Hepatitis B Infection among Hemodialysis Patients in Tabriz, Northwest of Iran: Prevalence and Mutations within the S Region by Narges Eslami, Vahdat Poortahmasebi, Javid Sadeghi, Reza Ghotaslou, Bahram Niknafs, Hossein Bannazadeh Baghi, Mahin Ahangar Oskouee

“…A total of 118 HD patients were included (63.6% were male and 36.4% female), with an overall mean age of 60.8 ± 12.8 years old. …”
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Severity and Determinants of Anemia in TB/HIV Coinfected Adults at Mekelle, Ethiopia: Hospital Based Retrospective Study by Kebede Embaye Gezae, Kiflom Hagos, Assefa Ayalew Gebreslassie

“…Considering severity level, the prevalence was 6.2%, 28.2%, and 24.6% for severe, moderate, and mild anemia, respectively. Being female (AOR = 0.380; 95% CI: 0.226–0.640), body mass index (AOR = 0.913; 95% CI: 0.836–0.998) reduces the odds of developing anemia whereas baseline ambulatory functional status (AOR = 2.139; 95% CI: 1.189–3.846), bedridden functional status (AOR = 2.208; 95% CI: 1.002–4.863), HIV clinical stage III (AOR = 2.565; 95% CI: 1.030–6.384), and HIV clinical stage IV (AOR = 2.590; 95% CI: 1.006–6.669) increased the odds of developing anemia for TB/HIV coinfected adults. …”
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Case Report on Renal Failure Reversal in Lambda Chain Multiple Myeloma with Bortezomib and Dexamethasone by Bhanu K. Patibandla, Akshita Narra, Ahmad A. Alwassia, Anthony Bartley, Gurprataap S. Sandhu, James Rooney, Robert M. Black

“…Our patient is a 67-year-old female with multiple poor prognostic factors for RF reversal who demonstrated a rapid renal response with bortezomib and dexamethasone (BD) regimen. …”
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Identification of CβS and ODC antimony resistance markers in anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis field isolates by gene expression profiling by Farzaneh Zarrinkar, Iraj Sharifi, Razieh Tavakoli Oliaee, Ali Afgar, Elaheh Molaakbari, Mehdi Bamorovat, Zahra Babaei, Ebrahim Eskandari, Ehsan Salarkia, Marzieh Asadi

“…Twenty-six patients consisting of 13 unresponsive and 13 responsive equally distributed among female and male groups. All cases were identified to be L. tropica. …”
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A Cross Sectional Study on Thrombocytopenia with Mean Platelet Volume and Platelet Distribution Width in Patient with Febrile Illness by Vidhya.G, J.Margaret Theresa, J.S. Sukanya, Santha Sandasivan, Gerard Rakesh. J

“…Materials and Methods: Study was conducted on 85 individuals, both male and female, aged between 18 and 65 years, who presented with thrombocytopenia and acute febrile infections. …”
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Sociodemographic disparities in everyday discrimination among a national sample of adults in the United States, 2023 by Delvon T. Mattingly, Osayande Agbonlahor, Joy L. Hart

“…Adults who were younger (aged 18–44), female, non-Hispanic Black, sexual minority, some college-educated, low income, or urban-living generally reported higher discrimination. …”
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Autologous Fat Grafting in the Treatment of Painful Postsurgical Scar of the Oral Mucosa by Andrea Lisa, Valeria Summo, Valeria Bandi, Luca Maione, Matteo Murolo, Francesco Klinger, Marco Klinger

“…We describe the case of a 47-year-old female who presented a retractile scar that adhered to deep planes at the upper right of the vestibule due to surgical removal of maxillary exostosis, which determined important pain symptoms extending till the right shoulder during both chewing and rest. …”
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Correlation Between Serum Uric Acid, Insulin and Hba1c In Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Maryam Imtiaz, Samina Saeed, Muhammad Aqeel, Abrar Akbar, Shafaq Saleem, Lubna Meraj

“…The data was stratified into the following types of patient groups: a low & high HbA1c level group (<6.5% and >6.5% respectively), and a low & high insulin level group (with 25 mIU/L being the cut-off value) in male and female gender groups. Post stratification relation was calculated. …”
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