Ankle Blood Pressure and Pulse Pressure as Predictors of Cerebrovascular Morbidity and Mortality in a Prospective Follow-Up Study by Heikki J. Hietanen, Rauni Pääkkönen, Veikko Salomaa

“…The pulse pressure was significant only in the model adjusted for age and sex. Conclusion. The risk of a future CV event was elevated already in those patients among whom elevated ABP was the only abnormal finding. …”
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Nitric Oxide Levels in Patients with Psoriasis Treated with Methotrexate by Nilgun Solak Tekin, Nilsel Ilter, Banu Sancak, Muge Guler Ozden, Mehmet Ali Gurer

“…The results were compared with age- and sex-matched healthy volunteers. The relation of the results with the clinical severity and the cumulative Mtx dose were also evaluated. …”
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Facteurs alimentaires et environnementaux de risque du cancer du rhino-pharynx au Maroc et leur répartition géographique by Soumia Ammor, Abdellatif Baali, Mohamed Cherkaoui, Annie Hubert

“…The study of a group of 409 patients affected by NPC (nasopharyngeal carcinoma) using 394 people as a control group has shown that this cancer was predominant in men (sex-ratio = 1.80), particularly in the younger population (10.5% of patients were aged less than 20 years). …”
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Étude paléodémographique et utilisation du feu à Hili N, une sépulture collective en fosse de la fin de l’âge du Bronze ancien aux Émirats Arabes Unis by Esther Gatto, Gautier Basset, Sophie Méry, Kathleen McSweeney

“…All the deceased aged more than one year were buried without any perceptible selection as to age or sex. However, some of the babies aged less than twelve months were probably buried elsewhere.At least four fires occurred during the last phases of use of the grave. …”
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Rural Demographic Problem Areas in Poland by Andrzej Jakubowski, Urszula Bronisz

“…The study covered rural areas distinguished on the basis of the classification of the European Commission DEGURBA The analysis enabled to identify depopulation areas, areas with disrupted population reproduction (ie areas of permanent natural decline), areas of permanent outflow of population, areas with impaired population structure by age and areas with disrupted population structure by sex in the group of people of marriage age (20-34 years). …”
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Framing Deaths, Embracing Lives: Alan M. Clark’s Jack the Ripper Victims Series by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko

“…This article outlines the way the fictionalisations of the five women’s lives bring to the fore five other ‘crimes’ or transgressions: addiction, domestic violence, unemployment, sex work, and homelessness, but also the way these texts replace what is sensational and formulaic in Ripperature with something more than mundane and gritty in the lived experience of everyday people, such as moments of personal joy or professional accomplishments. …”
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Sport injuries in children. A twenty year study by Lazaro Martín Martínez Estupiñán

“…Children’s distribution by age and sex was analyzed so as the lesions according to the injured anatomic region and the conduct adopted.…”
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Spirituality and Emotional Intelligence in university students of the city of Ayacucho by Josselyn Miguel-Rojas, Edwin Jesús Vílchez-Quevedo, Mario Reyes-Bossio

“…Likewise, the analyzes carried out show that there are significant differences in the explicit assessment of spirituality according to sex; specifically women score more in this regard. …”
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Biology of the Endemic Endangered Swallowtail Butterfly, Papilio desmondi teita (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), on Wild Citrus Species in Taita Hills, Kenya by Oliver C. Genga, Namikoye E. Samita, Ruth Kahuthia-Gathu, Esther N. Kioko

“…The development period of the butterfly in 1st and 2nd seasons on T. asiatica was 81.13 ± 0.44 days and 112.15 ± 1.20 days, respectively, while a female-biased sex ratio was observed in the first and second seasons. …”
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Putative Factors That May Modulate the Effect of Exercise on Liver Fat: Insights from Animal Studies by Faidon Magkos

“…Concurrent loss of body weight or visceral fat does not appear to mediate the effect of exercise on IHTG, whereas sex (males versus females), prandial status (fasted versus fed), and duration of training, as well as the time elapsed from the last bout of exercise could all be affecting the observed exercise-induced changes in IHTG content. …”
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Gambaran Slide Malaria Berdasarkan Sediaan Darah dari Kepulauan Siberut Mentawai Periode Oktober 2011 – Januari 2012 by Adeline Sacharissa Firdaus, Nuzulia Irawati, Arni Amir

“…Whole blood preparations amounted to 106 blood and 32 of them are positive malaria. By sex found blood clots in women 17 and men as much as 15 blood clots. …”
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Health and Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Children and Young People: Analysis of Free-Text Responses From the Children and Young People With Long COVID Study by Natalia K Rojas, Sam Martin, Mario Cortina-Borja, Roz Shafran, Lana Fox-Smith, Terence Stephenson, Brian C F Ching, Anaïs d'Oelsnitz, Tom Norris, Yue Xu, Kelsey McOwat, Emma Dalrymple, Isobel Heyman, Tamsin Ford, Trudie Chalder, Ruth Simmons, Snehal M Pinto Pereira

“…There were significant observed associations between sentiment and COVID-19 status as well as sex (P=.001 and P<.001, respectively) such that the majority of the responses, regardless of COVID-19 status or sex, were negative; for example, 84.1% (227/270) of the responses from female individuals and 61.7% (87/141) of those from male individuals were negative. …”
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Gambaran Slide Malaria Berdasarkan Sediaan Darah dari Kepulauan Siberut Mentawai Periode Oktober 2011 – Januari 2012 by Adeline Sacharissa Firdaus, Nuzulia Irawati, Arni Amir

“…Whole blood preparations amounted to 106 blood and 32 of them are positive malaria. By sex found blood clots in women 17 and men as much as 15 blood clots. …”
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Characterizing populations prioritized for PrEP in 19 African countries: a review of national guidance by Lauren A. Graybill, Caroline N. McKay, Jiayu Wang, Nadia A. Sam‐Agudu, Marcel Yotebieng, Friday Saidi, Linda‐Gail Bekker, Bonnie E. Shook‐Sa, Benjamin H. Chi, Nora E. Rosenberg

“…All countries prioritized HIV‐serodifferent couples, female sex workers (FSWs), adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), pregnant and breastfeeding women (PBFW) and people who inject drugs (PWID), and most prioritized men who have sex with men (MSM; n = 18), transgender people (n = 18) and people in prisons (n = 17). …”
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Metabolic and molecular Characterization, following dietary exposure to DINCH, Reveals new Implications for its role as a Metabolism-Disrupting chemical by Sontje Krupka, Alix Sarah Aldehoff, Cornelius Goerdeler, Beatrice Engelmann, Ulrike Rolle-Kampczyk, Kristin Schubert, Nora Klöting, Martin von Bergen, Matthias Blüher

“…Although no changes were observed in body composition and energy expenditure, sex-specific metabolic effects were identified. …”
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Gastrointestinal symptoms and bowel habits in 53 046 healthy Danish blood donors: a nationwide cross-sectional study by Christian Erikstrup, Ole Birger Pedersen, Henrik Hjalgrim, Erik Sørensen, Jens Frederik Dahlerup, Klaus Rostgaard, Mikkel Steen Petersen, Sisse Rye Ostrowski, Susan Mikkelsen, Khoa Manh Dinh, Thorsten Brodersen, Janna Nissen, Anne Karmisholt Grosen, Jens Kjærgaard Boldsen, Simon Mark Dahl Baunwall, Mie Topholm Bruun, Bitten Aagaard, Christina Mikkelsen, Christian Lodberg Hvas

“…Symptom phenotypes strongly correlate with sex, age, and bowel habits.…”
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Gambaran Faktor yang Berhubungan dengan Timbulnya Kejang Demam Berulang pada Pasien yang Berobat di Poliklinik Anak RS. DR. M. Djamil Padang Periode Januari 2010 – Desember 2012 by Vivit Erdina Yunita, Afdal Afdal, Iskandar Syarif

“…Recurrent febrile seizures are dependent variable meanwhile age of initial seizure, sex, family febrile seizure history, family epilepsy history, and type of initial febrile seizure are independent variables. …”
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Seroprevalence of Human Herpesvirus Infections in Newly Diagnosed HIV-Infected Key Populations in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania by Doreen Kamori, Agricola Joachim, Mucho Mizinduko, Godfrey Barabona, Macdonald Mahiti, Upendo Kibwana, Mtebe Majigo, Salim Masoud, Ambele M. Mwandigha, Takamasa Ueno, Elia Mmbaga, Eligius Lyamuya

“…In the population at high risk of HIV infection, also termed as key populations (female sex workers (FSW), men who have sex with men (MSM), and people who inject drugs (PWID)), and their sexual partners, HHV infections can potentially compromise the efforts to prevent and control HIV infection. …”
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Short-term caloric restriction or resveratrol supplementation alters large-scale brain network connectivity in male and female rats by Judith R. A. van Rooij, Judith R. A. van Rooij, Monica van den Berg, Monica van den Berg, Tamara Vasilkovska, Johan Van Audekerke, Johan Van Audekerke, Lauren Kosten, Daniele Bertoglio, Daniele Bertoglio, Mohit H. Adhikari, Mohit H. Adhikari, Marleen Verhoye, Marleen Verhoye

“…Direct comparison between the effects of Rsv and CR on brain health is lacking, with limited knowledge on their sex-specific effects. Therefore, we aimed to compare and unravel the sex-specific impact of these dietary interventions on spontaneous brain activity.MethodsHere, we used resting-state fMRI to investigate functional connectivity (FC) changes in five prominent resting-state brain networks (RSNs) in healthy 4 month old male and female F344 rats supplemented to either 40% CR or daily Rsv supplementation (10 mg/kg, oral) for the duration of 1 month.ResultsOur results demonstrated a decreased body weight (BW) in CR rats, as well as an increase in body weight in male Rsv supplemented rats, compared to female Rsv supplemented rats, whereas this difference between sexes was not observed in the control or CR groups. …”
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Morphological evaluations in buffaloes (Bubal- us bubalis) in Venezuela by Luis Alfredo Pacheco-Díaz, José Atilio Aranguren-Méndez, Rafael Román-Bravo, Sharon Rivero-Hernández, Luis Edgardo Tovar-Briceño

“…The sex affects only the variables for rump RL, HL, RW, 45.5±0.42 vs. 42.7±1.05 (p<0.01), 59.42±0.59 vs. 53.42±1.49 (p<0.001), and 28.99±0.48 vs. 22.97±1.20 cm, (p<0.001), for females and males, respectively. …”
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