Influence of type traits on stayability in the Ital- ian Mediterranean buffalo by Damiano Altieri, Stefano Biffani, Mayra Gómez, Yuri Gombia, Dario Rossi, Luca Gubitosi, Nadia Piscopo, Francesca Carnovale, Rossella Di Palo

“…Experiences from dairy cows suggest that such an improvement could reduce the average productive life span of breeding females and, therefore, their longevity. Animal longevity has a multifactorial etiology where physiology and morphology, in close correlation with each other, cross their effects to enable animals to continue to produce efficiently on the farm. …”
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Anaesthetic efficacy of intraligamentary injection compared to incisive nerve block using 3% mepivacaine hydrochloride: a randomized clinical trial by Suzan Salem, Islam Saad, Ramy Elmoazen, Ghada Amin Khalifa

“…Results A total of 100 participants (42 females, 58 males) with a mean age of 50.97 ± 11.59 years took part in the study. …”
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Socio-economic determinants and spatial analysis of access to sanitation among older adults in Ghana by Ebenezer Nana Kwaku Boateng, Yvonne Ami Adjakloe, Addae Boateng Adu-Gyamfi, Amos Apraku, Simon Mariwah, Razak M. Gyasi

“…Specifically, the adjusted logistic regression results indicated that females had higher odds of sanitation access than males (AOR: 1.054, CI 1.023, 1.087, p-value < 0.001). while those in the ‘‘80 + ’’ age group had higher odds of sanitation access compared to those in the ‘‘60–69’’ age group (AOR: 1.171, CI 1.129, 1.214, p-value < 0.001). …”
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Prevalence and Characterization of Psychological Trauma in Patients with Fibromyalgia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Itxaso Gardoki-Souto, Diego Redolar-Ripoll, Marta Fontana, Bridget Hogg, María José Castro, Josep M. Blanch, Fabiola Ojeda, Aleix Solanes, Joaquim Radua, Alicia Valiente-Gómez, Roser Cirici, Víctor Pérez, Benedikt L. Amann, Ana Moreno-Alcázar

“…Method. Eighty-eight females underwent an interview to assess sociodemographic data, psychiatric comorbidities, level of pain, FM impact, clinical symptoms of anxiety, depression, insomnia, quality of life, and psychological trauma. …”
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Longitudinal Metabolomics Data Analysis Informed by Mechanistic Models by Lu Li, Huub Hoefsloot, Barbara M. Bakker, David Horner, Morten A. Rasmussen, Age K. Smilde, Evrim Acar

“…<b>Results</b>: Our experiments demonstrated that the joint analysis of simulated and real data had better performance in terms of pattern discovery, achieving higher correlations with a BMI (body mass index)-related phenotype compared to the analysis of only real data in males, while in females, the performance was comparable. We also demonstrated the advantages of such a joint analysis approach in the presence of incomplete measurements and its limitations in the presence of wrong prior information. …”
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Maximizing udder health through a selection index: a focus on udder traits in Italian Mediterranean Buffaloes by Johanna Ramírez Díaz, Roberta Cimmino, Rossi Dario, Zullo Gianluigi, Neglia Gianluca, Altieri Damiano, Mayra Gómez, Stefano Biffani, Giuseppe Campanile

“…The phenotypic records of 15,275 females and a pedigree with 43,395 animals were used. …”
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Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Saudi Arabia: an epidemiological population-based study by Mohammed A. Alshehri, Husain Y. Alkhlady, Zuhier A. Awan, Mohammed Ridha Algethami, Hadiah B. Al Mahdi, Hussam Daghistani, Khalid Orayj

“…The prevalence of CKD was higher among males compared to females (5.83% vs. 3.88%) and increased significantly with age, being 0.45% among participants aged 18–29 years and reaching 50.94% among participants aged 90 years or older. …”
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Long-Term Anatomic and Functional Outcomes after Macular Hole Surgery by Karolina Kaźmierczak, Joanna Stafiej, Joanna Stachura, Paweł Żuchowski, Grażyna Malukiewicz

“…Forty-four eyes of 40 patients (28 females and 12 males) were examined. The examination included visual acuity, optical coherence tomography, and colour vision testing. …”
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Evaluation of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Measures in Patients with Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain before a Definitive Diagnosis by Leila Farhad Mollashahi, Narges Farhad Mollashahi, Fahimeh Afzaljavan, Amir Hossein Saati

“…Investigating the relationship between diagnosis delay and qualitative variables was done using the Mann-Whitney U or Kruskal-Wallis tests, with a significant level of 0.05.Results:  A total of 56 patients, consisting of 42 females and 14 males, with an average age of 49.18 ± 14.86 years participated in this study. …”
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Evaluating catastrophic health expenditures among patients with long bone fractures in Ghana's major teaching hospitals: a hospital-based analysis by Alexis D. B. Buunaaim, Michel Adurayi Amenah, Dominic Konadu-Yeboah, Richard Baidoo, Amgbo Asare, Wilfred Larbi Addo, Claude Martin

“…Male patients incurred higher average OOP payments ($343.68) than females ($271.63), and patients with tibia fractures faced the highest financial burden. …”
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The transcription factor dFOXO controls the expression of insulin pathway genes and lipids content under heat stress in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> by M. A. Eremina, P. N. Menshanov, O. D. Shishkina, N. E. Gruntenko

“…To identify the properties of interaction of two key IIS pathway components under heat stress in D. melanogaster (the forkhead box O transcription factor (dFOXO) and insulin-like peptide 6 (DILP6), which intermediates the dFOXO signal sent from the fat body to the insulin-producing cells of the brain where DILPs1–5 are synthesized), we analysed the expression of the genes dilp6, dfoxo and insulin-like receptor gene (dInR) in females of strains carrying the hypomorphic mutation dilp641 and hypofunctional mutation foxoBG01018. …”
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Extent and pattern of burden of care and its associated factors among Eritrean families of persons living with schizophrenia: a cross-sectional study by Xiaofeng Li, Tesfaldet Habtemariam Hidru, Mohammed Hamid Osman, Sainyugu Lolokote

“…Descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple regression analysis was employed to analyse the data.Results In this study, 84 (57.5%) were males and 62 (42.5%) were females. The mean age was 33.96+10.37 (median=31) for the patients and 46.76+13.96 (median=48) for the caregivers. …”
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“I’m living in a ‘no’ world now…”- A qualitative study of the widespread impact of living with chronic breathlessness, and experiences of identification and assessment of this symp... by Helene L. Elliott-Button, Miriam J. Johnson, Ann Hutchinson, David C. Currow, Joseph Clark

“…Recorded in-person interviews were transcribed and subjected to reflexive thematic analysis using Total Dyspnoea and Breathing Space conceptual frameworks. 20 patients (9 females), carers (4 spouses, 1 daughter), and clinicians (5 GPs, 3 advanced clinical practitioners, 2 nurses) were interviewed. …”
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Association between combined healthy lifestyles and infertility: a cross-sectional study in US reproductive-aged women by Xiaofeng Ye, Xiaoxia Song, Sihang Zhou, Guoqing Chen, Liping Wang

“…Analysis of subgroups indicated that the inverse association was more pronounced in females younger than 30. Additionally, optimal waist circumference is the foremost factor contributing to this inverse relationship. …”
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The Impact of Migraine on the Whole Life Course of Patients: Results from the OVERCOME (Japan) 2nd Study by Daisuke Danno, Shiho Suzuki, Tsubasa Takizawa, Ryotaro Ishii, Masayuki Hamakawa, Yoshinori Tanizawa, Satoshi Osaga, Mika Komori

“…Results The migraine group (n = 19,590) was numerically younger [mean (SD) age 40.5 (13.1) years vs. 53.1 (17.8) years] and included more females (68.8% vs. 52.1%) than the non-migraine group (n = 2219). …”
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Efficacy and safety of immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with advanced intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma by Ziting Peng, Jianhui Dong, Shuyao Tang, Jiaxu Shi, Tongdong Shi

“…The Kaplan-Meier method was employed to plot survival curves, and differences between groups were assessed using log-rank tests.Results96 patients diagnosed with ICC were included, comprising 60 males (62.50%) and 36 females (37.50%). 85 patients exhibited disease progression, 22 patients succumbed, and 38 patients were lost to follow-up finally. …”
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The Association of Depression and Anxiety Disorders With Gastrointestinal Symptoms Among Nurses by Behnam Masihipour, Fariborz Mansour-Ghanaei, Saman Maroufizadeh, Soheil Hassanipour, Mehrnaz Asgharnezhad, Adele Isanazar, Kourosh Mojtahedi, Farahnaz Joukar

“…Results: The mean age of participants was 30.08±7.43 years and 441 were females. Their mean scores of depression and anxiety were 2.50±4.53 and 4.57±5.59, respectively. …”
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Initial ASIA impairment scale and its association with improvement in cervical spinal cord injury by Aman Singh, Somil Jaiswal, Anil Chandra, Amit Srivastava, Suresh Jaiswal, Awadhesh Yadav, B.K. Ojha, Chhitij Srivastava

“…Age did not significantly affect outcomes (p=0.42), and while males had a 28.5% good outcome rate, females had a 39.2% rate (p=0.06). Road traffic accidents were the leading cause of injury (41.8%, n=236) but had a lower good outcome rate (22.9%) compared to falls (34.7%, n=196) with a higher good outcome rate (38.3%). …”
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Our experience of buffalo improvement in India: last 50 years journey by T. K. Datta

“…However, it faces challenges concerning low artificial insemination (AI) coverage (~40% of breedable females), demand gap of frozen semen doses, realized genetic gain, scarce fodder availability, and market linkages. …”
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Cross-Sectional Analysis of IL-6, TNF-α, Adiponectin, Leptin, and Klotho Serum Levels in Relation to BMI Among Overweight and Obese Children Aged 10–14 in La Rioja, Spain by Beatriz Fernández-Vallejo, Francisco Jiménez Monteagudo, Lourdes Romero, Maria Isabel López Aznárez, María del Carmen Romero Cobas, Laura Pérez-Martínez

“…Conclusions: This study underscores leptin and the L/A ratio as potential biomarkers of metabolic dysregulation in childhood obesity, particularly in females. Longitudinal studies are needed to confirm these findings and assess the clinical utility of these biomarkers in pediatric obesity management.…”
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