Cross-Sectional Analysis of IL-6, TNF-α, Adiponectin, Leptin, and Klotho Serum Levels in Relation to BMI Among Overweight and Obese Children Aged 10–14 in La Rioja, Spain by Beatriz Fernández-Vallejo, Francisco Jiménez Monteagudo, Lourdes Romero, Maria Isabel López Aznárez, María del Carmen Romero Cobas, Laura Pérez-Martínez

“…BMI correlated positively with leptin (r = 0.54, <i>p</i> = 0.0008) and the L/A ratio (r = 0.40, <i>p</i> = 0.025), showing sex-specific differences. Conclusions: This study underscores leptin and the L/A ratio as potential biomarkers of metabolic dysregulation in childhood obesity, particularly in females. …”
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Psychometric properties of the Dental Fear Schedule Subscale in a Portuguese pediatric population: exploratory study by Inês Esteves, Andreia Costa, Ana Coelho Canta, Sónia Mendes

“…Discriminant validity was analyzed using the variables sex, age, treatment complexity, and child´s behavior during the appointment, employing the Mann-Whitney test (for items) and Student’s t test (for the scale's total score) (α=0.05). …”
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The Role of Motivation to Promote Personal and Social Responsibility Through PE and Sport: A Comparative Exploratory Investigation of Prospective PE Teachers and Sports Leaders in... by Istvan Soos, Ian Whyte, Diana Szekeres, Karoly Ozsvath, Attila Szabo, Jonathan Ling, Jose Francisco Jiménez-Parra, Alfonso Valero-Valenzuela

“…Differences were found by country and by sex. Discussion: We suggest that a hybridised model incorporating Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility and the Sports Education Model is employed with sport and physical education students to optimise potential for transfer of values and behaviours.…”
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Association of plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer’s pathology and neurodegeneration with gait performance in older adults by Farwa Ali, Jeremy A. Syrjanen, Dan J. Figdore, Walter K. Kremers, Michelle M. Mielke, Clifford R. Jack, David S. Knopman, Prashanthi Vemuri, Jonathan Graff-Radford, B. Gwen Windham, Leland R. Barnard, Ronald C. Petersen, Alicia Algeciras-Schimnich

“…Linear regression models using plasma biomarkers as predictors of gait parameters and adjusted for age, sex, BMI, Charlson Comorbidity Index, and cognitive diagnosis were evaluated. …”
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Serum Fatty Acids and Risk of Cutaneous Melanoma: A Population-Based Case-Control Study by Marco Vinceti, Carlotta Malagoli, Laura Iacuzio, Catherine M. Crespi, Sabina Sieri, Vittorio Krogh, Sandra Marmiroli, Giovanni Pellacani, Elisabetta Venturelli

“…The percentage composition of 12 fatty acids was determined in 51 newly diagnosed melanoma patients and 51 age- and sex-matched population controls by extracting total lipids from serum samples using thin layer and gas chromatography. …”
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Perceptions et attitudes vis à vis de l’utilisation du préservatif chez les étudiants camerounais [Perceptions and attitudes towards condom use among cameroonian students] by Jean Pierre Mbame, Adolf Mote, Fernand Félix Kammoe-Youdom, Mouliom Adeline Mayoughoud, Théophile Mpaba Minkad, Patrick Monfils Ngomba, Denise Ovassa, Angèle Nganga

“…Conclusion- The results of this study help to understand the sexual behavior of college students and explain the cause of un protected sex. …”
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Increased Incidence of Thyroid Dysfunction and Autoimmunity in Patients with Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis by Stefano Stagi, Neri Pucci, Laura Di Grande, Cinzia de Libero, Roberto Caputo, Stefano Pantano, Ivan Mattei, Francesca Mori, Maurizio de Martino, Elio Novembre

“…Two hundred and eighty-eight patients (202 males, 86 females; range 5.5 to 16.9 years) with VKC were evaluated and compared with 188 normal age- and sex-matched subjects. In all subjects, serum concentrations of free T4, TSH, thyroperoxidase, thyroglobulin, and TSHr autoantibodies were evaluated. …”
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Key regions aberrantly connected within cerebello-thalamo-cortical circuit and their genetic mechanism in schizophrenia: an fMRI meta-analysis and transcriptome study by Yarui Wei, Ziyu Wang, Kangkang Xue, Xiaoyu Niu, Longyao Ma, Shaoqiang Han, Baohong Wen, Yong Zhang, Huafu Chen, Jingliang Cheng

“…SCZ was characterized by hyperconnectivity of the auditory network, visual system, and sensorimotor areas, and hypoconnectivity of the frontal gyrus, cerebellum, thalamus, and caudate nucleus, which were significantly linked to age, sex, duration of illness, and the severity of symptoms and functionally enriched in domains involving self, sensory, action, and social. 2922 genes were significantly over-expressed in these regions, which were enriched for important molecular functions, biological processes, and cellular components of the neurons/cells in the brain as well as SCZ and other mental diseases. …”
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Pre-diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors in NAFLD patients: a retrospective comparative analysis by Azam Teimouri, Zahra Ebrahimpour, Awat Feizi, Bijan Iraj, Elahe Saffari, Mojtaba Akbari, Mozhgan Karimifar

“…Statistical analysis was conducted to assess cardiovascular risk factors in NAFLD patients.ResultsHigher age, female gender, higher BMI, triglyceride, waist and hip circumference and waist-to-hip ratio were found in pre-diabetic NAFLD individuals compared with normoglycemic ones (P-value&lt;0.05). Multivariable age-, sex-, BMI- and smoking- adjusted logistic regression showed a predicting role of pre-diabetes and NAFLD concurrence with metabolic syndrome (P-value&lt;0.001, OR:4.31, 95% CI: 2.95- 6.29), but not CVD (P-value=0.353, OR:1.37, 95% CI: 0.71- 2.61).ConclusionIn this study, nearly one-third of NAFLD patients had pre-diabetes. …”
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Association between intraoperative fluid management and postoperative outcomes in living kidney donors: a retrospective cohort study by Ja Eun Lee, Chisong Chung, Sunghae Park, Kyo Won Lee, Gaab Soo Kim

“…The following covariates were used: age, sex, body weight, height, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, preoperative estimated glomerular filtration rate, operation duration, surgeon, nephrectomy side, and estimated blood loss. …”
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Correlation of Chimerism with Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease in Rats following Liver Transplantation by Fei Xue, Wei Chen, Xue-Li Bai, Guo-Dong Xu, Liang Liang, Ting-Bo Liang

“…Chimerism in PBMCs following sex-mismatched LT was identified by real-time PCR based on a rat Y-chromosome-specific primer. …”
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Mind at rest, mind at risk: A prospective population-based study of sleep and subsequent mental disorders by Mari Hysing, Allison G. Harvey, Ann Kristin Skrindo Knudsen, Jens C. Skogen, Anne Reneflot, Børge Sivertsen

“…Analyses adjusted for age, sex, baseline mental health symptoms, and somatic conditions. …”
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Influence of sacroiliac joint variation on clinical features of axial spondyloarthritis: a comparative analysis by Denis Poddubnyy, Torsten Diekhoff, Sevtap Tugce Ulas, Fabian Proft, Valeria Rios Rodriguez, Judith Rademacher, Juliane Greese, Katharina Ziegeler, Carolina Dominguez Aleixo, Maximilian Lindholz

“…There was no significant difference in IBP between the groups (adjusted OR=0.614 (95% CI 0.274, 1.377), p=0.236). Sex-stratified analysis revealed no statistically significant results.Conclusion Our analysis suggests that clinical phenotypes do not significantly differ between patients with axSpA with and without atypical joints.…”
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Exploring predisposing factors of hearing loss in prematurely born children: A nationwide case-control study by Pei-Chen Tsao, Hung-Chih Lin, Shang-Po Shen, Yu-Chia Chang

“…Methods: This study enrolled 21,576 children born at < 37 weeks of gestation; 3,596 with HL and 17,980 with normal hearing born between 2002 and 2015, matched for sex, age at diagnosis, and enrollment time. Data were abstracted from the concatenation of three nationwide databases for overall risk factors till the diagnosis of HL. …”
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Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Rats with Hyperandrogenic Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome by Na Li, Chenghao Yang, Huiyu Xie, Yinghong Liu, Yuanpeng Liao

“…Aerobic exercise can alleviate the internal inflammation by relieving leptin resistance and may mitigate the sex hormone disorder and hyperandrogenism in rats with PCOS by affecting the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis.…”
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Dietary Glycemic Index, Dietary Glycemic Load, Blood Lipids, and Coronary Heart Disease by Edgar Denova-Gutiérrez, Gerardo Huitrón-Bravo, Juan O. Talavera, Susana Castañón, Katia Gallegos-Carrillo, Yvonne Flores, Jorge Salmerón

“…CHD risk was estimated according to the sex-specific Framingham prediction algorithms. Results. …”
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Prevalence of HIV infection and uptake of HIV/AIDs services among fishermen on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kagera region, Northwestern Tanzania. by Patrick Mwanahapa, Mtoro J Mtoro, Dina Gerald, Pius Horumpende, Salaam Mujeeb

“…In adjusted analysis, using alcohol before sex (aOR = 2.32, 95 CI: 1.42-3.80), not testing for HIV in the last 12 months (aOR = 4.69, 95% CI: 2.79-7.88), and not using condoms (aOR = 1.94, 95% CI: 1.13-3.27) were significantly associated with HIV infection among fishermen.…”
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A systematic scoping review of latent class analysis applied to accelerometry-assessed physical activity and sedentary behavior. by Michael Kebede, Annie Green Howard, Yumeng Ren, Blake Anuskiewicz, Chongzhi Di, Melissa A Troester, Kelly R Evenson

“…The accelerometer-based variables in the LCA model included measures by day of the week (38%), weekday vs. weekend (13%), weekly average (13%), dichotomized minutes/day (13%), sex specific z-scores (13%), and hour-by-hour (13%). …”
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Interdisciplinary Team Pilot to Reduce Time to Administration of Piperacillin/Tazobactam in the Emergency Department at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center by DiVittorio MM, Fisher T, Steadman B, Cone B, Elfessi Z

“…The two groups were similar in age, sex, and African-American race. There was a statistically significant reduction in the average time from EM pharmacist verification to nurse administration when comparing the groups (46.5± 49.8 vs 30.6± 28.7 minutes, p=0.004). …”
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Comparison of the Diagnostic Performance of Five Clinical Questionnaires for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Alirio R. Bastidas, Eduardo Tuta-Quintero, José S. Arias, Diana Cufiño, Diana Moya, Daniel Martin, Faure Rodríguez, Carolina Aponte-Murcia, Doris M. Pumarejo, Maria A. Bejarano, Geraldine Ospina, Lina M. Morales, Adriana M. Portella, Maria D. Barragán, Daniela A. Álvarez, José M. Hernández

“…Statistically significant relationship was found for COPD diagnosis with male sex, older age, respiratory symptoms, and exposure to wood smoke (p value <0.05). …”
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