Description of a new surgical approach for elbow arthroplasty: Selective Triceps-On Medial Paraolecranon (STOMP) approach by Carlos Prada, MD, Sirat Khan, MBBS, PhD, Thomas Goetz, MD, Bashar Alolabi, MD, MSc

“…Results: A total of 37 elbow arthroplasties in 35 patients were performed with the STOMP approach during the reviewed period, of which 27 patients (77%) were female. Thirty-two arthroplasties were primary cases (86%), and 5 (14%) were revision cases. …”
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Cognitive and Emotional Empathy in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury by Veronica Guadagni, Marco Sarà, Massimiliano Conson, Antonio Carolei, Simona Sacco, Silvia Vadini, Caterina Pistarini, Arcangelo Barbonetti, Giuseppe Iaria, Francesca Pistoia

“…Materials and Methods. 20 patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) (12 males and 8 females, mean age=50.9, standard deviation SD=16.1 years; mean education=10.9, SD=4.1 years) were included in the study and compared to 20 matched healthy subjects. …”
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Health-related Quality of Life and Exercise Capacity in Double Lung Transplant Recipients With Baseline Lung Allograft Dysfunction by Alisha Rullay, BSc, Karina Kaur, BSc, Jennifer Holman, PT, Laura C. van den Bosch, MD, Justin G. Weinkauf, MD, Jayan Nagendran, MD, PhD, Rhea A. Varughese, MD, Alim S. Hirji, MD, Dale C. Lien, MD, Jason C. Weatherald, MD, Kieran M. Halloran, MD

“…Patients with interstitial lung disease as an indication for transplant and those who received older, female, and heavy smoking donors were at increased risk of BLAD. …”
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Monocyte and Macrophage in Follicular Liquid: Predictive Markers of Embryo Quality in Women with Obesity and Infertility by Evgeny D. Merkulov, Anastasia V. Prozorova, Iuliia G. Samoilova, Dmitry A. Svarovsky, Kira A. Sidorenkova, Liudmila V. Spirina, Marina N. Stakheeva, Oxana S. Timofeeva, Ilya A. Petrov

“…An increase in the relative content of CD14+163+206+ in the blood was higher in women with other causes of female infertility compared to those with male factor infertility (p = 0.010). …”
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Nomogram prediction of overall survival in breast cancer patients post-surgery: integrating SEER database and multi-center evidence from China by Yufen Zheng, Yuan Yuan, Minya Jin, Chunlong Wu

“…This study aims to construct and validate a comprehensive nomogram integrating multiple clinicopathological features to predict OS more accurately in breast cancer patients.MethodsWe identified 60,445 .female patients who underwent breast cancer surgery between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2015, from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database, randomly divided into training and internal validation cohorts. …”
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An Alternative Model of Care for the Treatment of Adolescent Athletes with Extension-Based Low Back Pain: A Pilot Study. by Mitchell Selhorst, Richard Rodenberg, Nick Padgett, Anastasia Fischer, Reno Ravindran, James MacDonald

“… # Methods Sixteen adolescents (15 ± 1.8 years, 50% female) with extension-based LBP were assigned to the biomedical model or physical therapy first model. …”
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Clinical Features and Risk Factors of Mortality in Patients with Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome by Hong-Wei Cui, Ru-Yi Lei, Bo-Ai Zhang

“…A total of 92 patients with PRES were included; 84.8% of whom were female, with an average age of 25.4 (5–66) years at the onset of PRES. …”
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Treatment of a femoral neck fracture in a patient with dwarfism: a case report by Junyan Zhao, Liuliu Chen, Kun He, Muyao Li, Zhenwen Li, Hui Lin, Songjun Li

“…Case presentation This report presents the case of a 30-year-old female with congenital pituitary dwarfism who sustained a subcapital femoral neck fracture following trauma. …”
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Cloning and expression analysis of the glucocorticoid receptors and the effects of cortisol in sex differentiation in protogynous hermaphroditic swamp eel, Monopterus albus by Jialin Su, Lei Sun, Jiaqi Yang, Weizhi Yao, Hongyan Xu, Ke Feng

“…Real-time PCR indicated that swamp eel gr1a mainly expressed in the brain; gr1b mainly in the spleen, head kidney, kidney and muscle; gr2 mainly in the muscle. During female-to-male sex reversal, the expression levels of gr1a and gr1b decreased significantly at the stage of ovotestis III, and gr2 showed a trend of increase, and increased significantly in the testis. …”
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Socio-economic determinants and spatial analysis of access to sanitation among older adults in Ghana by Ebenezer Nana Kwaku Boateng, Yvonne Ami Adjakloe, Addae Boateng Adu-Gyamfi, Amos Apraku, Simon Mariwah, Razak M. Gyasi

“…Specifically, the adjusted logistic regression results indicated that females had higher odds of sanitation access than males (AOR: 1.054, CI 1.023, 1.087, p-value < 0.001). while those in the ‘‘80 + ’’ age group had higher odds of sanitation access compared to those in the ‘‘60–69’’ age group (AOR: 1.171, CI 1.129, 1.214, p-value < 0.001). …”
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Harmonizing measurement tools: examining the concurrent validity of the Daily Activity Behaviors Questionnaire compared to the ActiGraph to assess 24-hour movement behaviors among... by Iris Willems, Vera Verbestel, Dorothea Dumuid, Patrick Calders, Bruno Lapauw, Marieke De Craemer

“…Methods This cross-sectional observational study included 105 adults (45 ± 13 y/o, 54% female). Participants wore an ActiGraph during seven consecutive days followed by filling in the DABQ recalling the past seven days. …”
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CeRNA profiling and the role in regulating gonadal development in gold pompano by Changcan Yang, Yijun Zhao, Wendong Zhao, Hai Huang, Quanqi Zhang, Jinxiang Liu

“…It also provides new insight into the function of ncRNAs and the regulatory relationship of ceRNA between males and females. These results might contribute to discussions on the regulation of ncRNA during gametogenesis.…”
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Factors influencing compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue among nurses: a study in a tertiary hospital by Sarah Sharmala Nadarajan, Ping Lei Chui, Wan Ling Lee, Noor Hanita Zaini

“…A majority of the participants were female (91%, n = 294), and the mean age of the participants was 33.01 ± 8.50 years. …”
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Correlation between depressive symptoms and cognitive function in middle-aged and elderly population in China: an analysis of CHARLS baseline data by Yuchao SUN, Jing FENG, Zihui LEI, Ge QU, Xinyan LI, Yong GAN

“…The results of multiple linear stepwise regression showed that being female (B = – 0.31), being older (B60 – 69 years = – 0.19; B70 – 79 years = – 1.18; B80 – 89 years = – 2.12; B ≥ 90 years = – 3.66), living in central and western regions (Bcentral = – 0.36; Bwestern = – 0.57), smoking (B = – 0.15), and having depressive symptoms (Bmild to moderate = – 0.90; Bsevere = – 1.51) were risk factors for cognitive decline; further stratified analysis revealed that depressive symptoms had a significant negative impact on cognitive function in middle-aged and older adults across gender, residential area, and region of life, with higher levels of depression associated with poorer cognitive function. …”
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Evaluation of Blood Culture Results in Patients with Malignancy in Erzurum Province, Turkey by Osman Aktas, Ozgür Akbaba, Muhammet Hamidullah Uyanik, Hakan Uslu

“…Pathogen positivity was highest in the patient cultures with urinary system cancer (23.9%), thyroid and other endocrine gland cancers (20.6%), female and male genital organ cancers (18.2%/16.9%), and digestive organ cancer (14.2%). …”
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Comparing growth velocity of HIV exposed and non-exposed infants: An observational study of infants enrolled in a randomized control trial in Zambia. by Obvious Nchimunya Chilyabanyama, Roma Chilengi, Natasha Makabilo Laban, Masuzyo Chirwa, Michelo Simunyandi, Luiza Miyanda Hatyoka, Innocent Ngaruye, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Samuel Bosomprah

“…Of these 97 (45.3%) were female, 35 (16.4%) were stunted, and 59 (27.6%) were exposed to HIV at baseline. …”
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A Standardized Classification Scheme for Gastroduodenal Disorder Evaluation Using the Gastric Alimetry System: Prospective Cohort Study by Chris Varghese, Gabriel Schamberg, Emma Uren, Stefan Calder, Mikaela Law, Daphne Foong, Vincent Ho, Billy Wu, I-Hsuan Huang, Peng Du, Thomas Abell, Charlotte Daker, Christopher N. Andrews, Armen A. Gharibans, Gregory O’Grady

“…Results: Two hundred ten patients were included (80% female, median age 37), of whom 169 met the criteria for chronic nausea and vomiting syndromes and 206 met the criteria for functional dyspepsia (79% meeting both criteria). …”
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Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in dizygotic twin ovine fetuses are associated with discordant responses to antenatal steroid therapy by Erin L. Fee, Haruo Usuda, Sean W. D. Carter, Hideyuki Ikeda, Tsukasa Takahashi, Yuki Takahashi, Yusaku Kumagai, Michael W. Clarke, Demelza J. Ireland, John P. Newnham, Masatoshi Saito, Sebastian E. Illanes, Binny Priya Sesurajan, Liang Shen, Mahesh A. Choolani, Gokce Oguz, Adaikalavan Ramasamy, Sara Ritchie, Andrew Ritchie, Alan H. Jobe, Matthew W. Kemp

“…Fetuses were surgically delivered 24 h after their final treatment and ventilated for 30 min. Results ANS-exposed female fetuses had lower arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2) values than male fetuses (76.5 ± 38.0 vs. 97.2 ± 42.5 mmHg), although the observed difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.1). …”
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Impact of Clinical Factors on Generic and Disease-Specific Quality of Life in COPD and Asthma-COPD Overlap with Exacerbations by Zsófia Lázár, Alpár Horváth, Gábor Tomisa, Lilla Tamási, Veronika Müller

“…Low HRQL in COPD was associated with female gender, dyspnea, cough, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and arrhythmia, while in ACO, it was related to arrhythmia, hypertension, and cough, but less to dyspnea. …”
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Monitoring Sleep and Nightly Recovery with Wrist-Worn Wearables: Links to Training Load and Performance Adaptations by Olli-Pekka Nuuttila, Daniela Schäfer Olstad, Kaisu Martinmäki, Arja Uusitalo, Heikki Kyröläinen

“…A total of 24 participants (10 females) performed a 3-week baseline training period (BL), a 2-week overload period (OL), and a 1-week recovery period (REC), which were followed by test days (T1–T3). …”
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