Low back pain treatment adherence barriers in Eswatini private physiotherapy practices: A pilot study by Tapiwa Chikaka, Monique M. Keller

“…Conclusion: Our study identified patient barriers to physiotherapy adherence, particularly females aged 40–69 years. Although doctor referrals improved adherence, time constraints and pain remained significant barriers. …”
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Quality of Life and Healthcare Seeking Behavior among Internal Migrant Laborers in Coimbatore, India: A Community-based Analytical Cross-sectional Study by P Aparnavi, M Malarkodi, Sivagami Ramanathan, Madhavi Sambandan, Jeevithan Shanmugam, Mohan Kumar, Shanmuga Priya, Seetharaman Narayanan, Ramesh Rathinamoorthy

“…The QoL was higher in the environmental and social domains than in the physical and psychological domains. Females, married people, those currently living with their family, those working in the organized sector, and those in higher socio-economic status had better QoL than their counterparts. …”
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The resilience instrument for older adults: scale development and preliminary validation by Chun Hu, Chun-Qing Zhang, Jingdong Liu, Yiqun Gan

“…The aim of the current study was to develop and validate an age-specific resilience scale, the Resilience Instrument for Older Adults (RIOA), in a total sample of community-dwelling Chinese older adults (N = 470, with 112 males and 358 females) in Hong Kong, China. A sequential approach was used to develop the RIOA in three stages. …”
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Effect of Hybrid Knitted Structure on Clothing Pressure by Hoorieeh Abbasi Mahmoodabadi, Emiel DenHartog, Minyoung Suh

“…According to the protocol, the applied pressure of each sleeve was measured at three different points on the dominant arm of 12 healthy females. Stretch properties of arm sleeves were examined using an elongation tester. …”
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Descriptive ecology of abyssal decapods from Chapopote Knoll (southwestern Gulf of Mexico) by Adriana Gaytán-Caballero, Florence Schubotz, Ian R. MacDonald, Elva G. Escobar-Briones

“…Compound specific isotope analyses of galatheid guts revealed females to have more 13C-depleted lipids (-35‰) compared to males (-28‰), calling for more detailed analyses to clarify this trophic segregation.…”
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Effect of Vitamins C and E on Endothelial Function in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Rachel-Marie Cazeau, Hong Huang, John A. Bauer, Robert P. Hoffman

“…Results. Two males and 7 females were studied. Mean age was 12.9 ± 0.9 yrs; mean T1DM duration was 5.5 ± 2.5 yrs; mean BMI was 22.1 ± 3.8 kg/m2; and mean hemoglobin A1c was 9.3 ± 1.1%. …”
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Association Between Body Composition Characteristics and Pulmonary Function Parameters in Young Adults of Shaheed Benazirabad District by Hajira Naila, Zulfiqar Ali Laghari

“…Results: The sample consisted of 236 (62.8%) males and 140 (37.2%) females, with a mean age of 31.39±6.35 years. The mean BMI was 23.65±3.95 kg/m². …”
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Menorrhagia in inherited bleeding disorders in Iraqi women by Yusra Ghiath Yaseen, Elaf Zuhair Hmeed, Nidal Karim Al Rahal, Baan Abdulatif Mtashar

“…CONCLUSIONS: Fifty eight percent of females with Menorrhagia in this study have inherited bleeding disorders(IBDs), VWD, and thrombasthenia account for 51.3% are the most common causes of inherit bleeding disorder (IBD). …”
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A Clinical Study on Initial Experience of COVID-19 ARDS in Obstetric Patients at a Tertiary Care Centre in India by Sheeba Marwah, Reenu Kanwar, Shahida Naghma, Anjali Dabral, Nitesh Gupta

“…Through this, an effort has been made to sensitize the attending obstetrician on diverse presentation of COVID-19 disease and to emphasize the importance of prevention, early pick up, and timely optimal management of pneumonia in pregnant females with COVID-19. The clinical presentation of respiratory illness due to SARS-CoV-2 in pregnancy can be mistaken for exaggerated physiological changes of pregnancy leading to delay in seeking medical care. …”
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Prevalence of Human Intestinal Parasitic Infections and Associated Risk Factors among School Children in Hakim District, Harari Regional State, Eastern Ethiopia by Eshetu Mekonnen, Nuredin Sadik

“…The study involved 333 participants, including 158 males and 175 females, who were selected using a stratified systematic random sampling method. …”
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The impact of artistic sports on academic self-efficacy by Yanyan Tian, Yanyan Tian, Haiqing Wang

“…This study delves into the beneficial effects of Artistic sports compared to basic sports in enhancing academic self-efficacy in college students, and investigates the mediating roles of mindfulness, social anxiety, and academic procrastination in this process.MethodsA questionnaire survey was conducted among students in some universities in Gansu Province, collecting a total of 1,976 online questionnaires, including 263 males and 1,713 females, with 1,543 participants in Artistic sports courses and 433 participants in basic sports. …”
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Effect of the provision of estimated waiting time on patient satisfaction with the Emergency Department: A randomized controlled trial by Khalid N. Almulhim, Lina A. AlMudayris, Zeyad K. Alshehri, Ahmed K. Alnawah, Danah A. Aljeri, Abdulaziz S. Hadadi

“…RESULTS: For the 118 patients at the triage entrance, 50% were aged 18-39 years, 62% were females, and 61% were triaged as category 3. One-third patients were willing to wait for 0-1 hour, and 28% described their symptoms as severe. …”
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Enablers and barriers to community pharmacists' readiness to implement deprescribing of inappropriate medications for older adults in Qatar. by Marwa Elshazly, Sondus Jawad, Ayesha Ahmed, Hager ElGeed, Kazeem Babatunde Yusuff

“…The majority of the community pharmacists were females (54.5%), within the age range of 20-40 years (88.0%), had BSc / BPharm as the highest educational qualification (70.5%), were full-time employee (97.0%). …”
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COVID-19 Symptomatology from the Otorhinolaryngology Perspective: Survey from Tertiary Care Center by Raj Tajamul Hussain, Mayank Yadav, Jasdeep Monga

“…Median age was 37.7 ± 10.6 years (range 19–85 years), 66.20% (n = 478) were males and 33.79% (n = 244) were females. The most common general symptoms were fever, cough and fatigue/malaise with respective frequencies of 77.42%, 67.45% and 54.70%. …”
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Prevalence of pulmonary arterial hypertension in post-tuberculosis lung fibrosis patients: A cross-sectional observational study by Rupak Chatterjee, Priyanka Ghosh, Kumkum Sarkar, Shambo Samrat Samajdar, Shatavisa Mukherjee, Alex George, Netai Pramanik

“…Among the eight cases, six were males and two were females. Five of the males were smokers with a mean of 17.6 pack years of smoking. …”
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Isolation and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing of Haemophilus influenzae from Nasopharynx of Children under Five Years Attending Maternal and Child Health Clinic in Mbarara Region... by Daniel Omoding, Joel Bazira

“…Of the 248 participants included in the study, 116 (46.77%) were females and 132 (53.23%) males and 78 (31.45%) were below the age of 3 months. …”
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Epidemiological Profile of Hearing Deficiency in a Tertiary Care Hospital (2019-2022) by Indranil Sen, Anup Kumar Das, Arijit Das

“…Results A total number of 3536individuals inclusive of1980 males and1556 females were studied. Nearly, 570 individuals suffered B/L hearing loss (16%) which was again mostly Sensori-neural. …”
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Investigation Of University Students’ Overall Quality Of College Life And Their Satisfaction With This Life Terms Of Their Genders And Departments by Kadir Pepe, Rabia Özkurt, Osman Dalaman

“…A total of 400 students (212 females and 188 males) responded to the questionnaire. …”
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Characterizing Patients with Uncontrolled Blood Pressure at an Urban Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam by Hoang Thanh Nguyen, Nam Hoang Thi Phuong, Ngoc Tran Nguyen, Tuan Nguyen Anh, Vung Nguyen Dang

“…Among 220 patients, the rate of uncontrolled hypertension was 40.5%. Females had a lower likelihood of having uncontrolled hypertension compared to males (adjusted OR = 0.33; 95% CI = 0.11–0.98). …”
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Fleece-Lined Whelping Pools Associated with Reduced Incidence of Canine Hip Dysplasia in a Guide Dog Program by Lynna C. Feng, Alexandra Philippine, Elizabeth Ball-Conley, Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere

“…No sex differences were identified for CHD diagnosis, but males had lower PennHIP scores than females. These results provide correlational evidence that housing-related environmental factors during the first three weeks of development—specifically, the substrate in the whelping pool—are associated with lifelong orthopedic health.…”
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