Associations between dietary fatty acids and kidney stones by Ning Tan, Ya Zhang

“…Logistic regression models were used to assess the relationship between fatty acid intake and kidney stones prevalence, adjusting for demographic and health-related covariates such as age, sex, BMI, diabetes status, physical activity, and other dietary factors. …”
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Direct Medical Expenditures Associated with Eye Complications among Adults with Diabetes in the United States by Abdulkarim M. Meraya, Monira Alwhaibi, Moteb A. Khobrani, Hafiz A. Makeen, Saad S. Alqahtani, David Banji

“…The highest incremental expenditures were associated with outpatient and prescription drugs. After controlling for sex, age, race, poverty level, insurance coverage, prescription coverage, perceived physical and mental health, the number of chronic physical and mental conditions, marital status, education, the region of residence, smoking status, exercise, and chronic kidney disease (CKD), there was no difference in the out-of-pocket spending burden between adults with and those without ECs. …”
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Study on Gastrointestinal Nematodes of Equines in and around Bekoji, South Eastern Ethiopia by Mesfin Mathewos, Dereje Teshome, Haben Fesseha

“…However, no statistically significant difference (p>0.05) was seen in the prevalence of gastrointestinal nematode parasites between the sex and age of the Equidae. The mean fecal egg count of nematodes revealed that horses (1364.4±483.5) had a more severe infection than donkeys with a statistically significant difference (p<0.05). …”
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Nutritional Status of a Group of Children Under Five Suffering from Malaria in a Timor Leste District by Anagalys Ortega Alvelay, Marcos Félix Osorio Pagola, Sol Esther García Morales, Denis Monzón Vega, Mabel Vega Galindo

“…Statistical relationship was found between nutritional status and age (X2 = 7.44, df = 1, p = 0.01) and nutritional status and sex (X2 = 14.37, df = 1, p = 0, 01). A higher frequency of moderate malnutrition was observed in children with malaria (41; 61.2%). …”
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Interval Colorectal Cancers following Guaiac Fecal Occult Blood Testing in the Ontario ColonCancerCheck Program by Lawrence Paszat, Rinku Sutradhar, Jill Tinmouth, Nancy Baxter, Linda Rabeneck

“…Interval cancers comprised 38.70% of CRC following the baseline screen and 50.86% following the subsequent screen. Adjusting for age and sex, the hazard ratio (HR) for death following interval cancer compared to CRC following positive result was 1.65 (1.32, 2.05) following the first screen and 1.71 (1.00, 2.91) following the second screen. …”
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The Benefits and Risks of Prophylactic Central Neck Dissection for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Prospective Cohort Study by Doh Young Lee, Kyoung Ho Oh, Jae-Gu Cho, Soon-Young Kwon, Jeong-Soo Woo, Seung-Kuk Baek, Kwang-Yoon Jung

“…The two groups of patients were similar in age, sex ratio, follow-up duration, and tumor size (P=0.227, 0.359, 0.214, and 0.878, resp.). …”
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Non-modifiable and Modifiable Risk Factors in Vascular Ageing Extremes: The African-PREDICT Study by Donavan Rooi, Ruan Kruger, Esmé Jansen van Vuren, Yolandi Breet

“…Results Chronological age, male sex, smoking, alcohol use, and blood pressure were incrementally higher across PWV groups (all p trend ≤ 0.007). …”
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Differences in Thigh Muscle Activation Between Standing and Landing Exercises for Knee Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation by Jesper Bencke, Mark Strøm, Derek J. Curtis, Thomas Bandholm, Mette K. Zebis

“… # Purpose To investigate (1) how balance devices with progressing degrees of instability influence the activity of muscles controlling the knee joint in typical balance exercises with different demands on postural control, and (2) if any between-sex differences exist. # Study design Cross-sectional study…”
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Structural and Biomechanical Corneal Differences between Type 2 Diabetic and Nondiabetic Patients by João N. Beato, João Esteves-Leandro, David Reis, Manuel Falcão, Vítor Rosas, Ângela Carneiro, Fernando Falcão Reis

“…Sixty diabetic and 48 age- and sex-matched non-DM patients were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. …”
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Incidence and Heritability of Gastric Carcinoma in the Belgian Shepherd Dog Population in The Netherlands by Sanne Hugen, Citlalli Limpens, Joris H. Robben, Hille Fieten, Paul J. J. Mandigers

“…Results: For Tervueren the 10-year cumulative incidence was 4.7%, and for the Groenendael this was 2.1%. There was no sex predilection. The odds of gastric carcinoma were 5.0 (2.4–11.0) in offspring where at least one parent was known to be affected versus at least one parent was known to be unaffected. …”
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Validity of Accelerometers for the Evaluation of Energy Expenditure in Obese and Overweight Individuals: A Systematic Review by Silvia Pisanu, Andrea Deledda, Andrea Loviselli, Inge Huybrechts, Fernanda Velluzzi

“…The following descriptive information was extracted for each study: sample size, characteristics of participants (sex, age, BMI, fat mass percentage, any pathological conditions, modality of recruitment in the study, and exclusion criteria), accelerometer description (model, type and body position), and type of gold standard and validity protocol (duration, conditions, and requirements during and before the experiment). …”
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Can Serum Tenascin-C Be Used as a Marker of Inflammation in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy? by Alyaa A. Kotby, Manal M. Abdel Aziz, Waleed M. El Guindy, Amira N. Moneer

“…Subjects and Methods. 24 consecutive patients with primary nonfamilial DCM aged 6–72 months (mean 45.19±11.03) were divided into group I, twelve patients with acute onset DCM (<6 months duration), and group II, twelve patients with chronic DCM (>6 months duration), and compared to 20 healthy age- and sex-matched controls. Investigations included estimation of serum TN-C and echocardiographic evaluation using M-mode and 2D speckle tracking echocardiography (STE). …”
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The Levels of Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha and Interleukin-6 in Patients with Isolated Coronary Artery Ectasia by Mustafa Aydin, Ishak Ozel Tekin, Sait Mesut Dogan, Nesligul Yildirim, Mehmet Arasli, Muhammet Rasit Sayin, Ziyaettin Aktop

“…Plasma concentrations of TNF-𝛼 and IL-6 were measured in 36 patients with CAE (28 males, mean age: 58.2±12 years), and results were compared with age and sex-matched controls (n=32) without coronary artery ectasia. …”
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Evaluation of beef supply based on hot carcass data: the case of burdur province by Cevat Sipahi, Ahmet Cumhur Akın, Aykut Asım Akbaş

“…<b>Aim:</b> In this study, it was aimed to reveal the beef supply structure throughout the province by examining; the hot carcass weights, cattle age, cattle breed, sex, etc. data of the cattle slaughtered in Burdur province.…”
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Age-related cerebral ventriculomegaly occurs in patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia by Franziska Eisenhuth, Joy E. Agbonze, Adam M. R. Groh, Jesse M. Klostranec, David A. Rudko, Jo Anne Stratton, Adam J. Shapiro

“…To assess ventricular size, computed tomography sinus images from patients with PCD (n = 33) and age/sex-matched controls (n = 64) were analysed. Patients with PCD displayed significantly larger ventricular areas (p < 0.0001) and Evans index (p < 0.01), indicating ventriculomegaly that was consistent across all genetic subgroups. …”
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Relation of Vitamin D levels with positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia – A hospital based cross-sectional comparative study by Soumitra Ghosh, Bikashita Deka

“…Fifty drug-free subjects of schizophrenia (Group A) diagnosed and confirmed according to International Classification of Diseases 10 were selected by consecutive sampling and 50 age and sex frequency-matched subjects (Group B) were selected from the healthy population. …”
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Suicide following the death of a sibling: a nationwide follow-up study from Sweden by Ichiro Kawachi, Jan Saarela, Mikael Rostila

“…Associations with other main causes of death—such as external other than suicide, cardiovascular diseases or cancer—were generally much smaller and statistically not significant in either sex. We found no clear support for a specific time pattern according to time since a sibling's death.Conclusions Our study provided evidence for suicide risk associated with the death of a sibling at adult age, revealing that bereaved persons’ risk of suicide is higher when siblings die from suicide, even when adjusting for intrafamily correlation in death risks.…”
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Effect of the Interaction between Depression and Sleep Disorders on the Stroke Occurrence: An Analysis Based on National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey by Jia Li, Leijun Li, Yan Lv, Yanhai Kang, Mingjin Zhu, Wenfeng Wang

“…A total of 30473 eligible participants were included in this study, including 1138 (3.73%) with stroke and 29335 (96.27%) with nonstroke. Except sex, the differences were all significant between the stroke and nonstroke patients in baseline information (all P<0.001). …”
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Effectiveness of Fluoride Varnish Application as Cariostatic and Desensitizing Agent in Irradiated Head and Neck Cancer Patients by Kanchan P. Dholam, Priyanka Piyush Somani, Seema D. Prabhu, Shubhangi R. Ambre

“…There was no significant effect of sex (P=0.952) and surgery (P=0.672) on radiation caries, but site of disease (P=0.038) and radiation dose (P=0.015) were found to have statistically significant effect. …”
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Geospatial Analysis and Molecular Epidemiologic Study of Emerging Pulmonary Lophomoniasis in Iran: A National Registry-Based Study by Mohammad Amin Ghatee, Maryam Nakhaei, Ali Sharifpour, Mahdi Fakhar, Niloufar Mohamadi, Mostafa Soleymani, Siavash Abedi, Masoud Aliyali, Hossein Mehravaran

“…The study assessed the association of Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), digital elevation model (DEM), and geographic latitude as environmental factors and sex and age as demographic factors on the prevalence of BPL. …”
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