Comparison of Bone Mineral Density in Thalassemia Major Patients with Healthy Controls by Mahesh Chand Meena, Alok Hemal, Mukul Satija, Shilpa Khanna Arora, Shahina Bano

“…Thirty-two thalassemia patients, aged 2–18 years, and 32 age and sex matched controls were studied. The bone mineral concentration (BMC) and BMD were assessed at lumbar spine, distal radius, and neck of femur. …”
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Physical Activity among Veterans and Nonveterans with Diabetes by Erin D. Bouldin, Gayle E. Reiber

“…Based on self-report, we calculated the average minutes per week of moderate, vigorous, and total activity. After adjusting for sex, race and ethnicity, household income, education level, body mass index (BMI), and recent health checkup, veteran status was associated with a small but significantly larger amount of average weekly moderate PA (2.2 minutes, P=0.0058) but not average weekly vigorous PA (−0.02 minutes, P=0.98). …”
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Results of reconstructive surgery of the auricle in Cienfuegos by Bernardo Canto Vidal, Blas Jorge González Manso, José Daniel Gil Milá

“…Local anesthesia was applied in all the cases (5), and the Filatov tube techniques, and the retro auricular, of Dieffenbach, which were illustrated through images of the different cases. The age, sex and cause of the trauma were analyzed for each patient.…”
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The effect of living conditions on the stature of men and women: the case of south-eastern France (18th, 19th and 20th centuries) by Luana Batista-Goulart, Isabelle Séguy, Stefan Tzortzis, Gérald Quatrehomme

“…In this paper we analyse the impact of different living conditions on the length of the femur, as a proxy for stature, of three Mediterranean samples with known historical contexts, and assess sex differentials in femur length changes. The first collection analysed is composed of 18th century plague victims who had suffered several previous starvation episodes. …”
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Breast Cancer. A Characterization in the Decade from 1996-2005. by Lidia Torres Ajá, Julio César Sarmiento Sánchez, Arístides Sánchez Sánchez, Otto Pacheco Ruiz, Nancy Capin Sarría, Práxedes Rojas Quintana

“…<strong>Method:</strong> An observational descriptive and prospective study of 100 per cent of the surgical operated patients with this entity in the Cienfuegos province during 10 years (from January 1996 to December 2005). Some variable such as sex, age, affected breast, topographic localization, histological variant, clinical stage at the time of diagnosing, modality of the used biopsy, surgical techniques applied, and municipality where the patient lives. …”
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Temporal Dynamics of Reproduction in Hemiramphus brasiliensis (Osteichthyes: Hemiramphidae) by Mônica Rocha de Oliveira, Sathyabama Chellappa

“…This paper presents data on sex ratio, length at first sexual maturity, macroscopic and histological aspects of gonad development, gonadosomatic index (GSI), reproductive period, and fecundity of H. brasiliensis. …”
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Mortality, Work and Migration. A Consideration of Age-specific Mortality from Tuberculosis in Scotland, 1861-1901 by Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett

“…However, our findings do reinforce Andrew Hinde’s recent argument that geographical patterns in sex-specific tuberculosis mortality rates were largely determined by migration patterns, and we discuss the implications of this for our understanding of the decline of the disease over the late nineteenth century. …”
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The Correlation between Microalbuminuria and Thyroid Nodules in Type 2 Diabetic Mellitus by Can Cao, Zhao-Li Cui, Juan Miao, Jing-Xin Zhou, Xiao-Nan Wang, Jian Jin

“…The binary logistic regression analysis indicated that age, sex, FT4, and MAU were the risk factors for thyroid nodule in T2DM patients. …”
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CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS IN MALIGNANT SPINAL TUMORS: A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS by Marcelo Diniz de Menezes, Mariana Demétrio de Sousa Pontes, Carlos Fernando Pereira da Silva Herrero

“…Clinical evaluation included age, sex, tumor lesions, treatments, surgical procedures, and complications. …”
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HIV Prevention Messages Targeting Young Latino Immigrant MSM by Rosa Solorio, Pamela Norton-Shelpuk, Mark Forehand, Marcos Martinez, Joel Aguirre

“…Young Latino immigrant men who have sex with men (MSM) are at risk for HIV and for delayed diagnosis. …”
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Immune thrombocytopenia in infants: a retrospective study with comparison to toddlers by Anselm Chi-wai Lee

“…Infants with ITP generally had minor or mild bleeding (19, 86.4%) and seldom required treatment (7, 31.8%), and their thrombocytopenia resolved at a mean of 1.90 months after diagnosis. Besides age, the sex ratio, severity of bleeding, platelet counts and proportion that required treatment were comparable between infants and toddlers. …”
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Breeding Services and the Factors Influencing Their Use on Smallholder Dairy Farms in Central Uganda by Anthony Mugisha, Vincent Kayiizi, David Owiny, John Mburu

“…Use or nonuse of AI did not significantly (P>0.05) influence the sex of the calf born. While preference for AI was marked, very few farmers actually used it. …”
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Depression and Anxiety among Patients with Epilepsy and Multiple Sclerosis: UAE Comparative Study by Taoufik Alsaadi, Khadija El Hammasi, Tarek M. Shahrour, Mustafa Shakra, Lamya Turkawi, Wassim Nasreddine, Mufeed Raoof

“…To test this hypothesis, we screened for depression and anxiety 186 and 160 patients attending the epilepsy and MS clinics, respectively, using standardized screening tools to determine the rates of both depression and anxiety, comparing these rates to 186 age, sex matched controls. Among the three groups, only patients with epilepsy were at increased risk of having depression (OR = 1.9), whereas anxiety was not. …”
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Orthostatic Hypotension in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease and Atypical Parkinsonism by Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Johan Lökk

“…OH may herald the onset of PD before cardinal motor symptoms and our review emphasises the importance of its timely diagnosis (even as one preclinical marker) and multifactorial treatment, starting with patient education and lifestyle approach. Advancing age, male sex, disease severity, and duration and subtype of motor symptoms are predisposing factors. …”
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Obstetric Characteristics and Management of Patients with Postpartum Psychosis in a Tertiary Hospital Setting by C. E. Shehu, M. A. Yunusa

“…There were 12 (52.2%) live births, and 11 (47.8%) perinatal deaths and the fetal sex ratio was equal. The most common presentation was talking irrationally. …”
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Sexual Functions in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Patients: A Case Report by Nergis LAPSEK&Yacute;L&Yacute;, Elif TEM&Yacute;ZSU, Mehmet AK

“…After cognitive restructuring of her evaluations about control, sex therapy was continued. At the end of the therapy the avoidance of the patient disappeared and anorgasmia was treated and ejeculation time of the male patient was 15 minutes. …”
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Mortality Due to Subarachnoid Hemorrhage from 1999 to 2003. by Javier García Zacarías, Eduardo Hernández Ortiz, José M. Carles Zerquera, Cecilia Zacarías Chialjub, Ángel Luis Zayas Luis

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> 51 cases were analyzed where the white female sex was predominant, and who were older than 75 years old. …”
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Functional characterization of elderly people in the rural community of “Lagunillas”. January-March 2004. by Marly Delgado Navarro, Luz María Díaz Hernádez, Fidelina Bravo Vargas

“…The variables under study were : age, sex, marital status, occupational situation, and scholarship. …”
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Machine Learning for Predicting Distant Metastasis of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Using the SEER Database by Zhen-Tian Guo, Kun Tian, Xi-Yuan Xie, Yu-Hang Zhang, De-Bao Fang

“…Multivariable LR showed that age, sex, tumor size, extrathyroidal extension, and lymph node metastasis were predictive features for DM in MTC. …”
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Dissecting the sterility phenotype in gene edited Drosophila suzukii pgSIT males by Avery D. Witherbee, Stephanie Gamez

“…Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) has been used successfully to control many agricultural pests, but the use of irradiation, sex sorting, and the requirement to scale these insects make it costly to implement. pgSIT (precision guided Sterile Insect Technique) is a novel and efficient way to generate sterile males through genetic engineering and overcomes the drawbacks of traditional SIT. pgSIT has been implemented in multiple Dipteran insects, including D. suzukii, and has been shown to suppress wild insect populations. …”
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