Chiari malformation with concurrent papilledema: a patient-level meta-analysis of case reports and case series by Alejandro Pando, Daniel J. Valdivia, Daniel A. Brenner, Mohammed Ali Alvi, Hai Sun, James K. Liu, Ira Goldstein

“…All variables such as year and region of study, age, sex, symptoms, diagnostic information, treatment details, and follow-up duration, were recorded and analyzed. …”
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Quantile-Dependent Expressivity of Serum Uric Acid Concentrations by Paul T. Williams

“…Quantile-specific h2 (±SE) increased with increasing percentiles of the offspring’s sex- and age-adjusted uric acid distribution when estimated from βOP Ptrend=0.001: 0.34±0.03 at the 10th, 0.36±0.03 at the 25th, 0.41±0.03 at the 50th, 0.46±0.04 at the 75th, and 0.49±0.05 at the 90th percentile and when estimated from βFS Ptrend=0.006. …”
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Endoscopic sinus surgery outcomes in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis and immunoglobulin deficiencies by Shireen Samargandy, Elysia Grose, Jonathan Yip, John M. Lee

“…Patients were matched based on age, sex, CRS phenotype, and preoperative Lund-Mackay score. …”
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Serum levels of soluble CD30 in adult patients affected by atopic dermatitis and its relation to age, duration of disease and Scoring Atopic Dermatitis index by Gabriele Di Lorenzo, Sebastiano Gangemi, Rosaria Alba Merendino, Paola Lucia Minciullo, Serafina Paola Cannavò, Nicola Martinelli, Pasquale Mansueto, Giovanni Battista Rini, Roberto Corrocher, Maria Luisa Pacor

“…As a control group we studied 18 non-atopic subjects from laboratory staff, matched for sex and age. These subjects had no history of AD, urticaria or seasonal or perennial rhinitis or asthma, and had negative skin prick test to a panel of allergens.…”
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Serum Cytokine Profile by ELISA in Patients with Echinococcal Cysts of the Liver: A Stage-Specific Approach to Assess Their Biological Activity by Luca Piccoli, Valeria Meroni, Francesca Genco, Francesca Tamarozzi, Carmine Tinelli, Carlo Filice, Enrico Brunetti

“…No statistically significant difference was found between the percentages of positive samples for each cytokine and the different groups analyzed (patients/controls, stage, number, location, and size of the cyst, serology, and sex of patients), with the exception of the association of IL-4 and IL-13 with the cyst stage. …”
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Occupational Exposure to Low Concentrations of Lead Dust and Oxidative Stress in Mine Workers by Fateme Kooshki, Masoud Neghab, Fatemeh Rahimian, Fereshteh Aliasghari, Esmaeel Soleimani

“…This study aims to assess the relationship between OS parameters and exposure to low concentrations of lead dust in mine workers.Methods: This cross-sectional study evaluated 73 lead-exposed workers and 70 age- and sex-matched non-exposed individuals. Demographic data and occupational and medical history were collected through questionnaires. …”
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Serum levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and vascular endothelial growth factor as markers of disease activity in patients with axial spondyloarthritis by Mahendran Bhuvanesh, Chilkuri Balaji, Chinnadurai Saranya, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Trichangode Natesan Tamilselvam, Sankaralingam Rajeswari

“…Twenty healthy age- and sex-matched controls were also recruited for the study. …”
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Examination of the Relationship between Psychosocial Mediators and Intervention Effects in It’s Your Game: An Effective HIV/STI/Pregnancy Prevention Intervention for Middle School... by Elizabeth Baumler, Jill Glassman, Susan Tortolero, Christine Markham, Ross Shegog, Melissa Peskin, Robert Addy, Heather Franks

“…Analyses were carried out to investigate the degree to which a set of proposed psychosocial measures of behavioral knowledge, perceived self-efficacy, behavioral, and normative beliefs, and perceived risky situations, all targeted by the intervention, mediated the intervention’s effectiveness in reducing initiation of sex. The mediation process was assessed by examining the significance and size of the estimated effects from the mediating pathways. …”
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Analysis of Polymorphisms in the Lactotransferrin Gene Promoter and Dental Caries by João Armando Brancher, Giovana Daniela Pecharki, Andrea Duarte Doetzer, Kamilla Gabriella dos Santos Medeiros, Carlos Alberto Cordeiro Júnior, Vanessa Santos Sotomaior, Peter Bauer, Paula Cristina Trevilatto

“…From 687 unrelated, 12-year-old, both sex students, 50 individuals were selected and divided into two groups of extreme phenotypes according to caries experience: 25 students without (DMFT = 0) and 25 with caries experience (DMFT ≥ 4). …”
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Phosphate binder in dialysis: a cross-sectional study of patients' adherence and pill burden by Brunelle Bruna Scavello Coelho Ferezin, Luiza Karla Ramos Pereira de Araújo, Carolina Marquez Lima, Hugo Abensur, Benedito Jorge Pereira, Maria Aparecida Dalboni, Rosa Maria Affonso Moyses, Rosilene Motta Elias

“…Logistic regression showed that female sex (HR 3.30, 95% CI: 1.39–7.84, p = 0.007) and hemodialysis vs. peritoneal dialysis (HR 4.55, 95%, CI: 1.26–16.39, p = 0.021) remained independently associated with a non-adherence behavior. …”
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Teeth macroabrasion for determination of dental age and diet in the Illyrian population from the Kopila necropolis on the Island of Korčula, Croatia by Marina Marić, Dinko Radić, Jelena Dumančić, Marin Vodanović, Minja Birimiša, Davorka Radovčić, Hrvoje Brkić

“…The analyzed sample is part of the collection of excavated skeletal remains kept in the Vela Luka Cultural Center on the island of Korčula. 284 permanent teeth, 19 fragments of the maxilla and 20 fragments of the mandible were found in the tomb, which were classified into 32 individuals and by sex. Teeth were analyzed by metric and non-metric methods of determining dental status in order to assess the dental age at the time of death and the diet of the inhabitants. …”
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The impact of demographics and positioning on the imaging features of the optic nerve sheath and ophthalmic vessels by David Berhanu, Luís Abegão Pinto, Inês Carneiro, Isabel Fragata, Joana Tavares Ferreira, Lia Lucas Neto

“…Doppler analysis showed higher peak-systolic velocity and resistive index in the ophthalmic artery (35.6 cm/s vs. 12.0 cm/s; 0.78 vs. 0.70) compared to the central retinal artery (p < 0.001). Age, sex, heart rate and systolic blood pressure were significant determinants of the imaging features, with ONSD being larger in males (p < 0.001) and increasing with heart rate (p = 0.001). …”
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Uptake and safety of Sotrovimab for prevention of severe COVID-19 in a cohort and self-controlled case series study by Martina Patone, Andrew JHL Snelling, Holly Tibble, Carol Coupland, Aziz Sheikh, Julia Hippisley-Cox

“…Results Here we show that among treated and untreated eligible individuals, the mean ages (54.6 years, SD: 16.1 vs 54.1, SD: 18.3) and sex distribution (women: 60.9% vs 58.1%; men: 38.9% vs 41.1%) are similar. …”
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Therapeutic Adherence of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Four Health Areas of the Country by Addys María Díaz Piñera, Armando Rodríguez Salvá, Fernando Jesús Achiong Estupiñán, Dania Lidia Cardona Garbey, Geominia Maldonado Cantillo, Esteban Augusto Londoño Agudelo, Patrick Van der Stuyft

“…Variables were studied: sociodemographic (age, sex, skin color, occupation, level of education, cohabitation), risk factors and comorbidities, pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment and their relationship with adherence. …”
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Physiological Aldosterone Concentrations Are Associated with Alterations of Lipid Metabolism: Observations from the General Population by M. Hannich, H. Wallaschofski, M. Nauck, M. Reincke, C. Adolf, H. Völzke, R. Rettig, A. Hannemann

“…The associations of aldosterone with serum lipid concentrations were assessed in multivariable linear regression models adjusted for sex, age, body mass index (BMI), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and HbA1c. …”
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Temporomandibular Joint Ankylosis among Patients at Saint Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia: A 9-Year Retrospective Study by Dereje Mekonnen, Andamlak Gizaw, Bruktawit Kebede

“…Sociodemographic and clinical data including age, sex, place of residency, duration of TMJA cases, etiology, clinical presentations, imaging results, type of surgical operation, and complications after surgery were collected and analyzed using IBM SPSS software version 20 for Windows (Armonk, NY, USA: IBM Corp) computer program. …”
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Cross-sectional seroprevalence study of bovine herpesvirus 1, bovine respiratory syncytial virus, and parainfluenza virus 3 in cattle from Villavicencio, Colombia by Catalina Ballesteros González, Karen Briñez, Julio César Tobón, Danny Wilson Sanjuanelo Corredor, Fernando Vicosa Bauermann, Blanca Lisseth Guzmán Barragán

“…Two simultaneous risk factors for all three diseases were identified: female sex and age over 3 years. The risk factors for BoHV-1 were the sale of animals, purchase of animals, history of abortions, and Brahman breed. …”
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Prevalence of metabolic syndrome with different serum vitamin D levels in middle-aged and older adults by Ya Zhao, Danting Su, Lichun Huang, Mengjie He, Dan Han, Dong Zhao, Yan Zou, Ronghua Zhang

“…After adjusting for age, sex, physical activity level, smoking status, education level, annual per capita household income, and body mass index residuals, the highest tertile (Q3) of vitamin D (odds ratio [OR], 0.779; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.702–0.865) and vitamin D3 (OR, 0.787; 95% CI, 0.709–0.875) concentrations had a lower risk of MetS than the lowest tertile (Q1). …”
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Amphetamine use as a predictor of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular mortality and morbidity: a longitudinal cohort study of criminal justice clients by Ada Åhman, Jonas Berge, Anders Håkansson

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular morbidity and mortality for intravenous drug users with different drugs as the primary drug, using data from the criminal justice system.MethodsA cohort of injecting substance users (N = 2,422) was identified in the Swedish criminal justice system through interviews with the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) between January 2001 and August 2006. Data on age, sex, self-reported injection drug, tobacco use, and time in prison or custody were retrieved from the ASI database. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Endoscopic Carpal Tunnel Release Performed Under Wide-Awake, Local Anesthesia, No Tourniquet in an Office-based Procedure Room Versus Operating Room Setti... by Madison Milhoan, MD, Winston Scambler, BS, William F. Pientka, II, MD

“…Patients undergoing in-office procedures were significantly older (average age of 58 vs 53 years) (P = .004). A significant sex difference was noted between the groups, with more women undergoing in-office (P < .00001). …”
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