Justified Suspicion: Symptomatic Syphilitic Alopecia in a Patient with Well-Controlled HIV by Robert Jame, Yousif Al-Saeigh, Leo L. Wang, Kevin Wang

“…This association is especially evident in men who have sex with men (MSM). In HIV-positive patients, primary syphilis infection may progress more rapidly to the tertiary, and most destructive, stage and reinfection can start with the latent or tertiary stage; in such patients, advanced syphilis may arise without clinical warning signs (Kenyan et al., 2018). …”
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Association between bronchial asthma severity, control level and life quality in children by Alexander Torres Molina

“…The analyzed variables were: age, sex, severity, level of control and quality of life. …”
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The impact of SLCO1B1 polymorphisms on homocysteine concentrations: evidence for a stronger association in men by Xinyuan Hu, Yanfang Jiang

“…In the sub-study, SLCO1B1 CT + CC polymorphism and the male sex were identified as risk factors for Hcy, with the effect of SLCO1B1 polymorphism being more pronounced in men.ConclusionFolic acid and vitamin B12 reduce Hcy concentrations, while the SLCO1B1 CT and CC polymorphisms are associated with higher Hcy levels. …”
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A study of lipid profile peculiarities and atherogenic index of plasma in patients younger than fifty years of age with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis by Varsha R. Bhatt, Kavita K. Krishna, Vishal Asrani, Rajat Chauhan

“…Aims: Evaluation of lipid profile and atherogenic index of plasma (AIP) in newly diagnosed DMARD naïve patients of RA younger than 50 years of age, and its comparison with age- and sex-matched healthy controls. Settings and Design: Cross-sectional comparative study. …”
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Polymorphism rs3828903 within MICB Is Associated with Susceptibility to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in a Northern Han Chinese Population by Yue-miao Zhang, Xu-jie Zhou, Fa-juan Cheng, Yuan-yuan Qi, Ping Hou, Ming-hui Zhao, Hong Zhang

“…Significant association between the allele G of rs3828903 and risk susceptibility to SLE was observed after adjusting for sex and age (P=1.87×10-2). In silico analyses predicted a higher affinity to transcription factors for allele G (risk) and cis-expression quantitative trait loci (cis-eQTL) effects of rs3828903 in multiple tissues (P ranging from 2.79×10-6 to 6.27×10-38). …”
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Letalidad hospitalaria por enfermedad cerebrovascular en la provincia de Cienfuegos by Ada Sánchez Lozano, Ada Lozano Leblanc, Joan Rojas Fuentes, Yaineli Cutiño Mass, Ricardo Verdecia Fraga, Ernesto Julio Bernal Valladares

“…The variables analyzed included age, sex, status at discharge, types of cerebrovascular disease and hospital stay. …”
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Association between Platelet to Neutrophil Ratio (PNR) and Clinical Outcomes in STEMI Patients after Successful pPCI: A Secondary Analysis Based on a Cohort Study by Hao Wang, Xiaochun Qing, Hua Wang, Yunfei Gu

“…After adjusting for age, sex, anterior wall myocardial infarction (MI), history of MI, apelin-12, apelin-12 change rate, left ventricular end-diastolic diameter, peak cardiac troponin I, pathological Q wave, Killip classification grade, fasting blood glucose, albumin, GENSINI score, and estimated glomerular filtration rate, a nonlinear relationship was found between the PNR and MACEs in the included cohort. …”
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Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Associated with Diarrhea in Children in Cairo, Egypt by Iman K. Behiry, Emad A. Abada, Entsar A. Ahmed, Rania S. Labeeb

“…Our control group was age and sex matched concurrent healthy children. The identified E. coli isolates were subjected to antimicrobial disc diffusion susceptibility test and further identified for EPEC serotype by slide agglutination test, using antiserum E. coli somatic trivalent I (O111, O55, O26) according to the instructions of the manufacturer. …”
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Problems and prospects of bovine tuberculosis serological diagnosis by M. O. Baratov

“…The purpose of this study was to analyze the role of complement fixing and haemagglutinating antibodies for the detection cattle infected with bovine tuberculosis (TB). 977 cattle of different sex and age groups on two tuberculosis-infected farms were tested thrice over time. …”
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Conservative Treatment in Uncomplicated Appendicitis in Pediatrics at Tertiary Center Hospital by Essam Alaa Al-Din Abd Al-Aziz, Mohamed Abd – Al Shafy, Ahmed Abd Almonem Elrashidy, Nezar Abdelraouf Abo Halawa

“…Scoring systems like Alvarado and RIPASA help assess patient eligibility for conservative treatment, considering symptoms and additional factors like age, sex, and symptom duration. Recent studies recommend antibiotics as an initial treatment for uncomplicated cases, to avoiding surgery in many cases. …”
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Identification of C-Kit-Positive Interstitial Cells in the Dog Lower Urinary Tract and Relationship with Smooth Muscle and Nerves. Hypotheses for a Likely Pacemaker Role. by Silvana Arrighi, Giampaolo Bosi, Debora Groppetti, Fausto Cremonesi

“…Anti-c-kit labelling demonstrated a network of elongated and branched c-kit positive cells, which were located in interstitial spaces, oriented in parallel to the smooth muscle bundles that form the bladder muscular layer, irrespective of dog sex. Cells with a similar localization were also PAS- and NADPH-diaphorase-positive. …”
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Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer in Pennsylvania 2021-2024. by Andrew D Marques, Matthew Hogenauer, Natalie Bauer, Michelle Gibison, Beatrice DeMarco, Scott Sherrill-Mix, Carter Merenstein, Ronald G Collman, Roderick B Gagne, Frederic D Bushman

“…Analysis showed no association of SARS-CoV-2 prevalence with age, sex, or diagnosis with Chronic Wasting Disease. …”
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Cardiac cycle: an observational/interventional study protocol to characterise cardiopulmonary function and evaluate a home-based cycling program in children and adolescents born ex... by Jeanie L Y Cheong, Michael M H Cheung, Melanie M Clarke, Jonathan P Mynard, Claire E Willis

“…Cardiopulmonary function assessed via measures of blood pressure, arterial stiffness, capillary density, peak oxygen consumption, lung clearance indexes and ventricular structure/function, will be compared with 58 age-matched and sex-matched term-born controls at baseline and post intervention. …”
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Learning Slope and Position Effects in Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test: Diagnostic Value in Schizophrenia by M. Alfimova, V.V. Plakunova, V.E. Golimbet

“…Covariate analysis adjusted for sex and age showed a decrease in all four studied learning slope measures (all p<0.001) and an increase in the recency effect (F=35.26; p<0.001; η²p=0.06) in schizophrenia patients compared to both control groups. …”
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Parental divorce's long shadow: Elevated stroke risk among older Americans. by Mary Kate Schilke, Philip Baiden, Esme Fuller-Thomson

“…The association between parental divorce and stroke was not dependent on sex; however, compared to females, males had 1.47 times higher odds of having a stroke (AOR = 1.47, 95% CI = 1.11-1.93). …”
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ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITIES AND IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT IN ADOLESCENTS WITH GENDER DYSPHORIA REFERRED TO SPECIALIZED GENDER IDENTITY SERVICES by MILLA KARVONEN, KIRSTIN GOTH, MAX KARUKIVI, KIM KRONSTRÖM, RIITTAKERTTU KALTIALA

“…Gender dysphoria (GD) may occur when this inner sense of gender does not align with the sex registered at birth. Both poorer overall identity development and GD have been connected to mental health problems in adolescence. …”
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Status of the First Permanent Molars in Students from the José Antonio Saco Elementary School by Diosky Ferrer Vílchez, Ana Belkys Hernández Millán, Disney Tablada Peralta, Ana Ivis Betancourt García, Antonio Araujo Vílchez, Yenly Rodríguez Alonso

“…A history of dental caries was the risk factor with the highest impact on both sexes and age groups, with values between 35 and 61 %. …”
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Cancer Mortality by Ethnicity in Colombia Between 2011 and 2022: A Population-Based Study by Maria Camila Urrea Suescun, Isabel C. Garcés-Palacio, Amr S. Soliman

“…Crude and direct age-standardized mortality rates were determined by ethnicity for the study period, by year, sex, and cancer type and Joinpoint analysis was conducted to examine trends.ResultsAge-standardized cancer mortality of Mestizos (60.1 per 100,000 population) was lower than in Rom and Raizales (557.3 and 77.7 per 100,000), and higher than for Afro-Colombians and Indigenous (37.2 and 20.0 per 100,000). …”
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Immunocytochemical and Morphometric Studies of Gastrin-, Somatostatin- and Serotonin-Producing Cells in the Stomach and Duodenum of Patients with Acid Peptic Disorders by WR Yacoub, ABR Thomson, P Hooper, LD Jewell

“…No significant differences were observed within any of the major diagnostic categories. Patient age, sex, duration of symptoms, smoking habits, alcohol consumption and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use had no effect on endocrine cell densities. …”
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Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Freddy Fernando Jumbo Salazar, Carlos Alejandro Troya Altamirano, Daniela Abigail Cobo Álvarez

“…<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to analyze the quality of life of patients with Parkinson's disease in terms of factors: depression, cognitive functioning, age, sex, duration of the disease and education. <br /><strong>Methods:</strong> descriptive and correlational, cross-sectional study. 40 people diagnosed with idiopathic Parkinson's disease and members of the Association of People with Disabilities were surveyed. …”
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