Work-related stress and its associated factors among primary care doctors in Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic by Muhammad Shah Shahrudin, Nik Munirah Nik-Nasir, Mohamed-Syarif Mohamed-Yassin

“…Results A total of 301 PCDs participated in this study with the majority being female (76.1%), Malay (67.8%), married (73.1%), medical officers (68.8%), and worked in urban (70.4%) and public primary care clinics (83%). …”
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Cancer incidence and the influence of immunosuppressive agents in Korean patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a retrospective cohort study by Soo-Kyung Cho, Jung-Yong Han, Yena Jeon, Seung-Hun You, Sun-Young Jung, Eun Jin Jang, Yoon-Kyoung Sung

“…Results A total of 10,013 predominantly female (91%) Korean SLE patients with a mean age of 36.9 ± 15.2 years were included. …”
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Causal association of sex hormone-related traits with Alzheimer’s disease: a multivariable and network Mendelian randomization analysis by Yan Zhang, Zhen-dong Sun, Yu-shen Yang, Wei-dong Fu

“…Importantly, testosterone plays a mediating role in the causal pathway from SHBG to females AD.…”
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Viable Ileosigmoid Knotting, A Very Phenomenon Finding and Rare Cause of Intestinal Obstruction: A Case Report and Literature Review by Beyene SA, Bogale NT, Abdinasir MM, Desalegne AZ, Wossen MA

“…A viable knot is a unique phenomenon of this seldom cause of bowel obstruction.Case Presentation: A sixteen-year-old female patient presents with a complaint of central abdominal distension and obstipation of 12-hour duration. …”
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The Relationship Between the Modified Glasgow Prognostic and SYNTAX Scores in Patients with Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction by Ahmet KARADUMAN, Cemalettin YILMAZ, Mustafa Ferhat KETEN, Ismail BALABAN, Zeynep Esra GUNER, Mehmet CELIK

“…Results: There were 295 patients (23.1% female, 76.9% male) included in the research, with an average age being 61.2+-10.9 years, and the mean SYNTAX score being 7.3+-10.4 (range: 0-40). …”
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Magnitude and Its Associated Factors of Urinary Tract Infection among Adult Patients Attending Tigray Region Hospitals, Northern Ethiopia, 2019 by Abrha Hailay, Kidane Zereabruk, Guesh Mebrahtom, Woldu Aberhe, Degena Bahrey

“…After adjustment of the independent variables, the significant factors associated with urinary tract infection were being female (AOR = 3.50; 95% CI: 1.88–6.51), urine passing frequency < five times in a day (AOR = 2.32; 95% CI: 1.08–4.96), having diabetes mellitus (AOR = 4.03; 95% CI: 1.69–9.63), history of urinary tract infection (AOR = 4.40; 95% CI: 2.31–8.39), <7 glasses of water intake per day (AOR = 2.16; 95% CI: 1.02–4.58), and history of urinary obstructive diseases (AOR = 2.67; 95% CI: 1.03–6.90). …”
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Connections Across Open Water: A Bi‐Organelle, Genomics‐Scale Assessment of Atlantic‐Wide Population Dynamics in a Pelagic, Endangered Apex Predator Shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) by Andrea M. Bernard, Marissa R. Mehlrose, Kimberly A. Finnegan, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Mahmood S. Shivji

“…In contrast, there was matrilineal population genetic structure across Northern and Southern Hemispheres, suggesting at least large regional‐scale female philopatry. Linkage disequilibrium network analysis indicated that makos possess a chromosomal inversion that occurs Atlantic wide, a genome feature that may be informative for evolutionary investigations concerning adaptations and the global history of this iconic species. …”
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Advancing Objective Mobile Device Use Measurement in Children Ages 6–11 Through Built-In Device Sensors: A Proof-of-Concept Study by Olivia L. Finnegan, R. Glenn Weaver, Hongpeng Yang, James W. White, Srihari Nelakuditi, Zifei Zhong, Rahul Ghosal, Yan Tong, Aliye B. Cepni, Elizabeth L. Adams, Sarah Burkart, Michael W. Beets, Bridget Armstrong

“…Data was collected opportunistically from nine participants (8.2 ± 1.75 years, 5 female) in the sedentary portion of two semistructured physical activity protocols. …”
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Clinicopathological Features, Treatment Strategy, and Prognosis of Primary Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma of the Duodenum: A SEER Database Analysis by Guoliang Zheng, Yue Wang, Yan Zhao, Zhichao Zheng

“…Patients with <65 years, female, stage I, and FL were found to be significantly associated with good DSS. …”
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Epidemic Zika virus strains from the Asian lineage induce an attenuated fetal brain pathogenicity by Maïlis Darmuzey, Franck Touret, Emily Slowikowski, Ivan Gladwyn-Ng, Karan Ahuja, Lorena Sanchez-Felipe, Xavier de Lamballerie, Catherine Verfaillie, Pedro E. Marques, Johan Neyts, Suzanne J. F. Kaptein

“…We performed a comparative analysis of the pathogenicity of pre-epidemic and epidemic Asian ZIKV strains in mouse embryonic brains using a female immunocompetent intraplacental infection mouse model. …”
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Working memory and the need for explainable AI – Scenarios from healthcare, social media and insurance by M. Liebherr, E. Gößwein, C. Kannen, A. Babiker, S. Al-Shakhsi, V. Staab, B.J. Li, R. Ali, C. Montag

“…In order to test these assumptions, 215 participants (129 female) underwent an online experiment testing their objective working memory capacity and completed the Intellect facet of the Big Five Personality traits (as a proxy for self-assessed cognitive capacity). …”
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Inflammatory and immunological markers and risk for mortality and cognitive impairment in a longitudinal study of older adults from the longevous project by M.R. Caldeira, C.M. Almada-Filho, M.C. Brunialti, R. Salomão, M.S. Cendoroglo

“…Higher IL6 levels were associated with cognitive impairment in female participants (p = 0.008). CD4 (p-value <0.001) and CD4/CD8 ratio (p-value = 0.013) decreased, and lower CD4/CD8 values were associated with cognitive impairment in women (p = 0.045).Conclusion:In the independent oldest-old participants with controlled chronic diseases, both men and women aged equally, and not all exhibited inflammation. …”
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Voices from the clinic: a qualitative analysis of physiotherapy strategies in musculoskeletal care for knee osteoarthritis patients by Jennifer Nguyen, Justine M. Naylor, Sarah Dennis, Rebecca Livings, Kathryn Mills, Siobhan M. Schabrun, Jeanette M. Thom

“…Results Thirty physiotherapists participated (age range 22–63 years, 17 male and 13 female). Interview responses indicated that most physiotherapists were satisfied with their care of knee osteoarthritis patients. …”
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Prevalence and influencing factors of regular physical activity among community-dwelling adults in Shaanxi province, 2018: an analysis of surveillance data by Yali TAO, Rina SA, Weihua WANG, Meng WU, Rong LIU, Lin QIU

“…Multivariate unconditional logistic regression analysis showed that participants who were female, aged 45 years or older, had a high school education or more, and were retired were more likely to engage in regular physical activity among community-dwelling adults in Shaanxi province. …”
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Comparative evaluation of funduscopy, PCR and serology in the diagnosis of ocular toxoplasmosis at ECWA Eye Hospital, Kano by Biodun Bintu Adebakin, Mayor Orezime Atima, Ugbede Idakwo, Jamilu Abubakar Bala, Alhasan Sharif Abdullahi, Auwal Bello Muhammad, Jah Douglas Pam, Emeka John Dingwoke, Florence Olufunke Darda

“…PCR, the most specific method, confirmed infection in only 3.8% (10/264) of cases, with 60% (6/10) of these being male and 40% (4/10) female. T. gondii detected had 196 base pairs. The study found that ELISA had the highest sensitivity (90.0%) but lower specificity (64.9%), whereas funduscopy showed high specificity (74.4%) but low sensitivity (20.0%). …”
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Undernutrition risk and obesity increase the risk of osteosarcopenia in Mexican adults aged 50 and over: a prospective cohort study by Isabel Omaña-Guzmán, Ashuin Kammar-García, Luis Miguel Gutierrez-Robledo, Oscar Rosas-Carrasco

“…Most of the participants were female (83.2%), 40% had between 7 and 12 years of education, and almost half were categorized as sedentary (47.8%) at baseline evaluation. …”
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Fructose Consumption in Pregnancy and Associations with Maternal and Offspring Hepatic and Whole-Body Adiposity in Rodents: A Scoping Review by Grace Zhao, Sarah Chondon, Clint Gray, Sheridan Gentili, Meagan Stanley, Timothy RH Regnault

“…Offspring hepatic adiposity was supported in 16 of the 20 articles that discussed hepatic results, with 5 studies demonstrating more severe effects in female offspring. Conclusions: Fructose consumption during pregnancy in rodent models is associated with maternal, fetal, and offspring hepatic and whole-body adiposity with underlying sex-specific effects. …”
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Militancia, destrucción y resistencias de las mujeres en la Unión Patriótica by Carlos Andrés Torres Mateus

“…Finally, some practices of female resistance that emerged from a mixture of spontaneous and conscious actions to confront the strategies of the perpetrating bloc are presented, which consolidated the struggle for truth, justice, reparation, and peacebuilding.…”
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HIV status and contraceptive use in Zimbabwe among sexually active adolescent girls and women: Secondary analysis of Zimbabwe Demographic Health survey data by G Musuka, G Murewanhema, Z Mukandavire, I Chingombe, D Cuadros, F Mutenherwa, T Dzinamarira, R Eghtessadi, N Malunguza, M Mapingure

“…Those using either a male or female condom were more likely to be HIV-positive, OR=3.36, 95% CI (2.63 - 4.28), p=0.001. …”
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Hormonal Influences on ADC Values in Breast Tissues: A Scoping Review of DWI in Pre- and Post-menopausal Women [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Neil Barnes Abraham, Abhimanyu Pradhan, Suresh Sukumar, Sneha Ravichandran, Winniecia Dkhar, Rajagopal Kadavigere

“…Inclusion criteria encompassed 1.5 Tesla MRI studies reporting ADC values in female subjects, considering menopausal status. Results Six studies meeting the inclusion criteria, involving 612 patients, were analyzed. …”
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