Investigation of Strongyle Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors in Horses in and around Alage District, Ethiopia by Mulugeta Tesfaye Alemayehu, Belete Kuraz Abebe, Sharew Mekonnen Haile

“…Age and body condition scores were statistically significant associations with the disease under study at p≤0.000. While sex and peasant associations did not predict the problem significantly (p≤0.05), young horses and horses in poor and medium body conditions are 4.66 (CI: 2.22–9.76), 9.63 (CI: 3.77–24.63), and 1.93 (1.03–3.60) times more likely to be infected with Strongylosis, respectively. …”
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Comparable results for the Femoral Neck System and three-screw fixation in femoral neck fracture treatment by Jukka Honkanen, MD, Nora Forsbacka, MD, Ida Strengell, MD, Inari Laaksonen, MD, PhD, Keijo Mäkelä, MD, PhD, Mari Koivisto, MSc, Ville Huovinen, MD, Elina Ekman, MD, PhD

“…In the multivariate analysis, age, sex, and fracture displacement were not associated with increased risk of later conversion to arthroplasty. …”
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Prevalence of low bone mineral density in ankylosing spondylitis, correlation with disease activity, and serum sclerostin levels by Anupam Wakhlu, Akhil Pawan Goel, Puneet Kumar

“…Materials and Methods: Fifty AS patients were compared with an equal number of age- and sex-matched controls. Various biochemical and radiological parameters of disease activity were calculated. …”
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Investigation of Homocysteine-Pathway-Related Variants in Essential Hypertension by Javed Y. Fowdar, Marta V. Lason, Attila L. Szvetko, Rodney A. Lea, Lyn R. Griffiths

“…To investigate the role of the homocysteine (Hcy) metabolism pathway in hypertension we conducted a case-control association study of Hcy pathway gene variants in a cohort of Caucasian hypertensives and age- and sex-matched normotensives. We genotyped two polymorphisms in the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene (MTHFR C677T and MTHFR A1298C), one polymorphism in the methionine synthase reductase gene (MTRR A66G), and one polymorphism in the methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase 1 gene (MTHFD1 G1958A) and assessed their association with hypertension using chi-square analysis. …”
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Gender-Specific Cytokine Pathways, Targets, and Biomarkers for the Switch from Health to Adenoma and Colorectal Cancer by Patrizia Pellegrini, Ida Contasta, Tiziana Del Beato, Fabiana Ciccone, Anna Maria Berghella

“…T helper1 (Th1) and Th2 cytokines (Th1/Th2) have pivotal roles in the homeostasis of Th1 and Th2 cell network functions in the immune response but sex steroids affect Th1/Th2 production in different ways and a natural sexual dimorphism in the immune response has been shown. …”
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Retroperitoneal Extraovarian Fibrothecoma Mimicking a Malignant Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma by Patrick Roberts, Sharon Nofech-Mozes, Natalie Coburn, Paul Hamilton, Lilian T. Gien

“…Fibrothecomas are benign sex cord-stromal tumors which rarely originate outside of the ovary. …”
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Studies of clinical symptoms of panleukopenia in cats in the Donetsk People’s Republic by I. V. Berdyukova, P. A. Rudenko

“…It was found that most of the clinical symptoms of panleukopenia were reported in cats of all age categories irrespective of their sex. Specific symptoms characteristic for different age groups were reported. …”
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Expanded non-invasive prenatal testing offers better detection of fetal copy number variations but not chromosomal aneuploidies. by Shaozhe Yang, Yuan Zhuang, Junfeng Li, Xiuhong Fu

“…Compared with rare autosomal aneuploidies (RAAs), pregnant women had a higher rate of confirmatory invasive testing for common trisomies, sex chromosomal abnormalities (SCAs), and copy number variations (CNVs). …”
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Ekologia rodziny w kontekście współczesnego społeczeństwa by Wojciech Bołoz

“…It doesn’t determine the sex or the number of its member, doesn’t require living together or having children, although it is not exclusive. …”
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A vain attempt: why a change in the reproductive strategy of a rodent population failed to restore ecological balance by Stanislav Myakushko

“…It was found that such processes changed not only the size and weight composition of the population (the proportion of large individuals decreased), but also the sex and age structure (the number of adult females decreased). …”
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Characterization of Type 2 Diabetics with Vascular Complications in Relation to Adherence to Treatment by Yadelaicy Ochoa González, Licet Utria Velázquez, Yousy Peña Escobar, Eizy Mastrapa Cruz, Zoraida de los Ángeles Cruz Paz

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> the female sex predominated in 60.9 % and those over 50 years of age (76.6 %), the level of education of pre-university (or medium technical) in 45.3 %, 54.7 % work and 21.9 % are housewives. …”
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Association Between Opioid-Related Mortality and History of Surgical Procedure: A Population-Based Case-Control Study by Mhd Wasem Alsabbagh, BScPhm, PhD, Michael A. Beazely, BSP, PhD, Leona Spasik, PharmD

“…Cases of opioid death were identified and matched to 5 controls who died of other causes by age (±4 years), sex, province of death, and date of death (±1 year). …”
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Assessing the capture of sociodemographic information in electronic medical records to inform clinical decision making. by Rawan Abulibdeh, Karen Tu, Debra A Butt, Anthony Train, Noah Crampton, Ervin Sejdić

“…Variability in documentation between clinics indicated that the majority of characteristics exhibited high variation in completeness rates with the highest variation for occupation (median: 47.2, interquartile range: 60.6%) and marital status (median: 45.6, interquartile: 59.7%). Finally, physician sex, years since a physician graduated, and whether a physician was a foreign vs a Canadian medical graduate were significantly associated with documentation rates of place of birth, citizenship status, occupation, and education in the electronic medical records. …”
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Affective symptoms in professionals who work in the positive COVID-19 cases care by Yaima Alonso Cruz, Ivonne Cepero Rodríguez, Lucia del Carmen Alba Pérez, Vivian Pérez de la Cruz, Leidiana Escobedo Sánchez

“…The variables studied were sex, professional category and range of severity of affective symptoms (depression and anxiety).…”
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Characterization of patients with cerebrovascular diseases in the acute stage according to traditional Chinese diagnosis by Omar Morejón Barroso, Zaida Pérez Meneses, Ernesto Julio Bernal Valladares, Leticia Varela Castro

“…The analyzed variables were: age, sex, type of cerebrovascular disease in the acute stage, severity of the wind stroke attack, syndrome according to organs and viscera, and pathogenic factor present.…”
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Homosexual identity and network overlap predictors of HIV infection among older men from rural China: a case–control study by Yuan Li, Jia He, Yi Yang, Shuangfeng Fan, Jing Xi, ShiJiao He

“…Binary logistic regression with backward selection was applied.Results Out of 21 potential predictors of HIV infection, 4 were confirmed: receiving HIV-related health education (HRHE) (OR 0.449, 95% CI 0.238 to 0.848), self-reported homosexual identity (16.517 (95% CI 1.073 to 254.182)), visiting female sex workers (FSW) (58.427 (95% CI 7.895 to 432.403)), complete non-overlap of intimate social network and sexual network (2.912 (95% CI 1.372 to 6.177)), partial overlap (3.334 (95% CI 1.536 to 7.236)).Discussion Findings from this study suggest current comprehensive prevention and control services need to be strengthened to provide effective HRHE including condom use to older men and help them to improve condom use, especially during visiting FSW and among self-reported homosexual older men. …”
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Peloidtherapy in older adults with knee osteoarthritis. Yaguaramas, 2021 by Maydelin Pérez Reina, Isidro Matos Lamote, Mailyn Montero Morales, Jorge Enrique Rodríguez León, Julián Sobral Rey, Esther Yarinely Hernández Diéguez

“…<br /><strong>Results</strong>: there was a predominance of patients in the age group of 66-70 years old and of the female sex; with evolution time between 5-10 years (60%); and with both knees affected (56.7%). …”
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Dispositional mindfulness profiles and psychological symptoms: a latent profile analysis by Fereshteh Mehrabi, Fereshteh Mehrabi, Shadi Beshai, Shadi Beshai

“…ObjectivesIn this study, we aimed to (1) examine profiles of mindfulness using the short form of the FFMQ (FFMQ-SF), (2) identify the demographic predictor (i.e., sex) of mindfulness profile membership, and (3) examine associations of mindfulness profiles with psychological outcomes (i.e., anxiety and depressive symptoms).MethodsThis cross-sectional study included 604 individuals recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform (MTurk). …”
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Unraveling the insomnia puzzle: sleep reactivity, attention deficit hyperactivity symptoms, and insomnia severity in ADHD Patients by Hilal Uygur

“…This study aimed to investigate the relationship between sleep reactivity, attention deficit hyperactivity symptoms, and the severity of insomnia in adults with ADHD.MethodsThis study included 61 adults with ADHD with no comorbid psychiatric or medical diseases and 61 adult healthy controls (HCs) matched for age, sex, body mass index, and years of education. All participants completed the sociodemographic data form, Ford Insomnia Response to Stress Test (FIRST), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS), and Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS).ResultsSleep reactivity, insomnia severity, and poor sleep quality were higher in adults with ADHD compared to HCs. …”
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Variations in Aging, Gender, Menopause, and Obesity and Their Effects on Hypertension in Taiwan by Shu C. Chen, Tsai C. Lo, Jui H. Chang, Hsien W. Kuo

“…Aim. We assessed obesity, sex, menopause, and gender differences on hypertension in a Hakka-majority Taiwanese sample. …”
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