Social Determinants of Health in India: Reimagining of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s Vision in the Light of Marginalized Communities by Kanhaiya Tripathi, Diksha Kanwat, Shankar Lal Bika, Jaspal Kaur, Neelu Rawat, Ashwani Kumar, Bhupinder Singh, Doggala Raju Kumar, Bawa Singh

“…The ongoing existence of health disparities in marginalized communities in India can be attributed to social health determinants such as poverty, caste, gender, and limited access to education and healthcare. …”
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Ocular biometric parameters in South-Indian children with myopia – A hospital-based retrospective descriptive analysis by Sandra Ganesh, Rebecca Claire Lusobya, Mohammed Sithiq Uduman, Reshma Rajan, Nisha Rajendran, Kripa Sanjeev, Kalpana Narendran

“…The mean (SD) AL, ACD, CR, and AL/CR ratio were 24.64 (1.32), 3.73 (0.40), 7.61 (0.27), and 3.24 (0.16), respectively. Female gender was associated with shorter AL, ACD, CR, and AL/CR ratios (P < 0.001) across all age groups. …”
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Modal Sosial Pemuda Bagi Keberlanjutan Wisata Budaya di Kota Cirebon by Gina Puspitasari Rochman, Muhammad Ziauddin Mas'ud

“…Modal sosial memacu kolaborasi antar pemangku kepentingan tanpa mengenal usia, profesi, maupun gender.  Berkaitan dengan itu, pemuda sebagai generasi yang cenderung lebih adaptif terhadap arus perkembangan pengetahuan dan teknologi potensial berperan dalam keberlanjutan pembangunan. …”
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Factors limiting glaucoma care among glaucoma patients in Nigeria: A scoping review. by Osamudiamen Cyril Obasuyi, Olabisi Olayemi Yeye-Agba, Oghenevwaire Joyce Ofuadarho

“…Nine studies reported personal-level dispositions limiting glaucoma care, including low levels of education, unemployment, gender, living distance from the hospital, cost of care, and faith/religion. …”
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Factors influencing food preferences and eating behaviour among the Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN) adolescents in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: a cross-sectional survey by Mahamudul Hasan, Azaz Bin Sharif, Rashedul Islam, A B M Nahid Hasan, Nusrat Jahan Ferdous

“…Food preferences and eating behaviours among FDMN adolescents in Cox’s Bazar were found to be influenced by a range of factors, including peer influence, access to nutritional education, food sources, cultural beliefs, ration sufficiency, food prices as well as age, gender, education level and household income.Conclusions In conclusion, understanding and addressing the multifaceted factors that influence the food preferences of FDMN adolescents is crucial for developing targeted interventions and comprehensive nutritional programmes.…”
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Allelic and Genotypic Analysis of LncRNA ANRIL rs4977574 A/G Mutations in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients: Insights into Tumor Characteristics and Genotypic Correlations by Mohammad Amin Amiri, Delara Amiri, Mohammad Javad Mokhtari, Fatemeh Lavaee, Mohammad Javad Fattahi, Abbas Ghaderi, Bijan Khademi

“…Methods and Materials. 106 blood samples from the patients with OSCC were obtained with a gender- and age-matched control group to evaluate the SNP of rs4977574 of lncRNA ANRIL. …”
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A pooled analysis of the side effects of non-invasive Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation (taVNS) by Manon Giraudier, Carlos Ventura-Bort, Christoph Szeska, Mathias Weymar, Mathias Weymar

“…Analyses included effects of stimulation type (interval vs. continuous), stimulation duration, stimulation intensity and participant characteristics (age and gender) as potential modulators.ResultsThe findings support the safety of taVNS, with minimal and mild side effects reported across participants (M = 1.86, SD = 1.36). …”
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Causes and Follow-Up of Central Diabetes Insipidus in Children by Wendong Liu, Jing Hou, Xiuqin Liu, Limin Wang, Guimei Li

“…The medical history, urine testing, imaging of hypothalamic-pituitary region, and hormone levels were also recorded. Results. Age and gender were matched between the CDI and control groups. …”
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Green Space and Child Weight Status: Does Outcome Measurement Matter? Evidence from an Australian Longitudinal Study by Taren Sanders, Xiaoqi Feng, Paul P. Fahey, Chris Lonsdale, Thomas Astell-Burt

“…To examine whether neighbourhood green space is beneficially associated with (i) waist circumference (WC) and (ii) waist-to-height ratio (WtHR) across childhood. Methods. Gender-stratified multilevel linear regressions were used to examine associations between green space and objective measures of weight status in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, a nationally representative source of data on 4,423 children aged 6 y to 13 y. …”
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Alcohol Consumption Is a Risk Factor for Lower Extremity Arterial Disease in Chinese Patients with T2DM by Shanshan Yang, Shuang Wang, Bo Yang, Jinliang Zheng, Yuping Cai, Zhengguo Yang

“…Additionally, after adjusting for age, gender, region, occupation, smoking status, body mass index, weight change, and duration of diabetes, the OR of peripheral artery disease after >20 years of alcohol consumption was 3.48 (95% CI: 1.09–11.15). …”
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The Impact of Uncertainty on Pedestrians’ Decision to Start Roadway Crossing during the Clearance Phase by Milan Simeunović, Andrijana Jović, Pavle Pitka, Mladen Dobrić

“…At the pedestrian crosswalks with the timer, contributing factors have been determined, such as gender, the number of waiting pedestrians, distractions, arrival time, and age. …”
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Compliance with face mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic: a community observational study in Singapore by Sean Wei Xiang Ong, Ying Wei Tang, Kyaw Zaw Linn, Xiao Wei Huan, Allie Lim, Chu Ying Poon, Danielle Hui Ru Tan, Nur Hafizah Binte Hamed, Sharifah Farhanah Binte Syed Husen, Clara Chong Hui Ong, Monica Chan, Shawn Vasoo, Yee-Sin Leo, Oon-Tek Ng, Kalisvar Marimuthu

“…The overall full compliance rate (correct mask use), poor compliance rate (incorrect mask use) and absent mask use were 84.5%, 12.9% and 2.6%, respectively. The factors — male gender, fabric mask usage and crowded indoor venues — were associated with lower mask compliance. …”
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Frequency and Treatment Outcome of Invasive Fungal Infections in Children with Hematological Malignancies by Rabiha Manzoor, Rabia Tariq, Awais Arshed, Qurat Ul Ain Ali, Ajaz Ahmed, Fozia Sayed Rasool

“…Methods: This cohort study was performed at the Department of Pediatric Oncology, Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, from January 2022 to June 2023. Children of either gender aged less than 18 years diagnosed with hematological malignancies were included adopting a non-probability consecutive sampling technique. …”
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Higher intakes of lysine, threonine and valine are inversely associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease risk: A community-based case-control study in the Chinese elderly by Xueqi Li, Wenjun Ma, Ting Yang, Chong Wang, Wei Zhang, Hui Li, Ting Zhao, Xiaofei Guo

“…Results: 400 NAFLD subjects were identified, and 400 participants were randomly selected as controls and matched by gender and age (± 3 years) Dose-response analysis showed that 1 000 mg increment of aromatic amino acids (AAAs) was associated with reduced 16 % risk of NAFLD. …”
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Development and validation of the gift reciprocation anxiety scale (GRAS) for youths and adults in intimate relationships by Mohd. Ashik Shahrier, Shakira Khatun

“…Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) revealed that the GRAS can invariably be applied across gender, age, and marital status. A moderately positive association of GRAS with reciprocity anxiety, depression, and anxiety indicated the convergent validity of the scale. …”
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Mulheres nas ciências, engenharia e tecnologia: o que as publicações científicas apontam? by Marina Gomes Murta Moreno, Cíntia Maria Gomes Murta

“…Os resultados mostram que o período mais produtivo é recente, sendo, os Estados Unidos, o país com o maior quantitativo de publicações e Women and science careers: leaky pipeline or gender filter?, o artigo mais citado. A estrutura de conhecimento pôde ser compreendida identificando-se autores e artigos seminais, tendências de tópicos de estudos e a rede de colaboração científica mundial. …”
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Cycloplegic Effects on the Cylindrical Components of the Refraction by Athar Zareei, Milad Abdolahian, Shahram Bamdad

“…The mean age in the lower astigmatism group (29.58; 95% CI: 29.18 to 29.99 years) was not significantly different from the higher astigmatic group (29.85; 95% CI: 29.07 to 30.62) and there were no significant differences in gender between these two groups (P=0.54). Differences between wet and dry refraction in J0 (−0.03; 95% CI:−0.06 to −0.008) and J45 (−0.03; 95% CI:−0.06 to −0.01) were significant only in the higher astigmatic group. …”
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Role of the IL-6 Gene in the Etiopathogenesis of Idiopathic Scoliosis by Svetla Nikolova, Milka Dikova, Dobrin Dikov, Assen Djerov, Gyulnas Dzhebir, Ventseslav Atanasov, Alexey Savov, Ivo Kremensky

“…We conducted a case-control study of eighty patients with idiopathic scoliosis (IS) and one hundred sixty healthy unrelated gender-matched controls trying to investigate the association between IS and the IL-6 promoter polymorphism at -174 position (rs1800795 G/C) in Bulgarian population. …”
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Trajectory of human migration: insights from autosomal and non-autosomal variant clustering patterns by Samayeta Sarkar Tuli, Joyatry Sarker, Mrinmoy Saha Roddur, Anik Biswas, Reefa Nawar, Tahmina Akter, Md. Wahid Murad, Abu Ashfaqur Sajib

“…These genetic variations have long been used as ancestry informative markers (AIMs) in forensics and evolutionary studies, primarily because of their uniparental inheritance and lack of recombination, despite the fact that gender-specific gene flow and socio-cultural practices may cause discrepancies. …”
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Association Between Depressive Symptoms and Comorbidities Among Elderly Diabetic Individuals in China by Luyao Qiao, Xin Pan, Tianpei Li, Shouqin Yi, Zhenyu Tang

“…Sensitivity analysis revealed that there were no significant differences stratified by gender or marital status (p < 0.05). Conclusions In the elderly diabetic population in China, the presence, number, and type of comorbidities were independently associated with depressive symptoms. …”
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