Healthy motivations for food consumption in 16 countries by Guiné Raquel P. F., Gonçalves Joana, Florença Sofia G., Ferreira Manuela, Cardoso Ana Paula, Bartkiene Elena, Djekić Ilija, Tarcea Monica, Rumbak Ivana, Sarić Marijana Matek, Černelič-Bizjak Maša, Isoldi Kathy, EL-Kenawy Ayman, Ferreira Vanessa, Klava Dace, Korzeniowska Małgorzata, Vittadini Elena, Leal Marcela, Papageorgiou Maria, Anjos Ofélia

“…Additionally, the sociodemographic variables that had a higher influence on health motivation levels were country, age, and gender. …”
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RESULTS OF THE 4­YEAR PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATION IN THE PROSPECTIVE TRIAL INTEREPID: FACTORS INFLUENCING MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY IN THE POPULATION OF RURAL REGIONS OF RUSSIA AND KYRGY... by A. V. Kontsevaya, A. О. Myrzamatova, A. N. Khalmatov, M. B. Khydyakov, A. G. Polupanov, A. Т. Altymysheva, Yu. А. Balanova, А. К. Kashirin

“…Smoking had significant influence on adverse outcomes only in males in both selections. …”
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How trait mindfulness protects late adolescents from stress-induced sleep problems: the unique role of mindfulness facets and gender differences by Huiting Cao, Jing Qian, Fenghua Tang, Yunyan Dong, Haining Ren, Xiaoran Xue, Ningning Mao, Xiaoyu Liu

“…Multivariate analysis was used to investigate the moderating effects of each mindfulness facet on the relationship between stressful life events and sleep problems one year later. Then, gender differences were examined through multi-group comparison. …”
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Gender differences in the association between bullying victimization and depressive symptoms in Chinese children and adolescents by Weidi Sun, Fang Gu, Boren Tan, Shanshan Tang, Ke Tang, Jia Meng, Yu Shen, Lei Gao, Juanjuan Li, Shiyi Shan, Shuting Li, Wenhan Xiao, Ronghua Zhang, Peige Song

“…This cross-sectional study aimed to elucidate the gender differences in the association between bullying victimization and depressive symptoms among children and adolescents. …”
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Sex as modifier of survival in patients with advanced urothelial cancer treated with pembrolizumab by Lorena Incorvaia, Sarah Scagliarini, Fernando Sabino Marques Monteiro, Hideki Takeshita, Jose Carlos Tapia, María Natalia Gandur Quiroga, Elaine Lam, Deniz Tural, Lazar Popovic, Saul Campos-Gomez, Paolo Andrea Zucali, Augusto Mota, Cinzia Ortega, Juan Pablo Sade, Mimma Rizzo, Ondřej Fiala, Nuno Vau, Patrizia Giannatempo, Halima Abahssain, Andrea Benedetto Galosi, Giuseppe Badalamenti, Jindrich Kopecky, Aristotelis Bamias, Johannes Landmesser, Jawaher Ansari, Fabio Calabrò, Francesco Massari, Sebastiano Buti, Joaquim Bellmunt, Matteo Santoni

“…Abstract Gender- and sex-based disparities in response to immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) has been reported in a variety of tumor types. Women have different anatomy with recurrent urinary tract infections, a different sex hormonal profile, and intrinsic differences in local and systemic immune systems and urobiome composition. …”
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Changes in prevalence of loneliness among home-dwelling older adults over three decades and associated factors by Mia T. Knuutila, Laura J. Rautiainen, Ulla L. Aalto, Tuuli E. Lehti, Helena Karppinen, Hannu Kautiainen, Timo E. Strandberg, Hanna Reeta Öhman, Niina M. Savikko, Anu H. Jansson, Kaisu H. Pitkälä

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Sex differences in the impact of frailty on patients with heart failure: A retrospective cohort study by Jiangyue Tian, Zongwei Lin, Xiaoqian Sun, Xiaoning Jia, Yanling Zhang, Guihua Zhang, Jie Xiao, Huixia Lu, Xinyu Zhang

“…Abstract Aims Limited literature shows the existence of sex differences in the long‐term prognosis of heart failure (HF) patients with frailty. …”
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Males and females respond differently to treatment during isolated kidney perfusion: combined effects of glucocorticoid and estradiol by Marina Vidal-dos-Santos, Marina Vidal-dos-Santos, Roberto Armstrong-Jr, Roberto Armstrong-Jr, Mayara Munhoz de Assis Ramos, Mayara Munhoz de Assis Ramos, Lucas Ferreira da Anunciação, Fernanda Yamamoto Ricardo-da-Silva, Cristiano de Jesus Correia, Petra J. Ottens, Luiz Felipe Pinho Moreira, Henri G. D. Leuvenink, Ana Cristina Breithaupt-Faloppa

“…In the same animal, the right kidney [RK—no isolated perfusion of kidney (IPK)] was removed and stored, while the left kidney (LK—with IPK) had the ureter and the renal artery cannulated and flushed with 5 ml of cold saline. …”
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Rotating Scheimpflug Imaging Indices in Different Grades of Keratoconus by Sherine S. Wahba, Maged M. Roshdy, Rania S. Elkitkat, Karim M. Naguib

“…Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) was calculated for evaluated curvature, elevation, and pachymetry indices with various reference shapes at different diameters. Results. When comparing normal to KC eyes, ten indices had significantly higher AUROC. …”
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REPRODUCTIVE QUALITIES OF SOWS AT DIFFERENT DURATIONS OF PREVIOUS LACTATION by Ruslan SHVACHKA, Mykola POVOD, Olekasndr MYKHALKO, Mykola SHPETNYI, Olga KORZH, Tetyana VERBELCHUK, Olena SHCHERBYNA

“…The first group included sows that had previous lactation for 28 days and the second group included sows that had previous lactation for 21 days. …”
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Comparison of different models for analyzing starch dynamic hydrolysis by Yuzhi Han, Cunxu Wei

“…Although these models had significantly different fitting qualities, the maximum extent of hydrolysis predicted by the different models was significantly positively correlated. …”
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Effect of Different Spacing on Cabbage Growth and Yield Optimization. by Birungi, Hillary

“…The study involved selecting the site and the site had a gentle slope with well-drained loamy soils. …”
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Treatment of Achilles tendon rupture using different methods by Grubor Predrag, Grubor Milan

“…A total of 3 (7%) patients treated with open surgery and 1 (2%) patient treated with percutaneous tenorrhaphy had temporary peroneal nerve prolapses. A total of 7 (16.6%) patients had reruptures: 4 were treated with plaster cast, 2 underwent open surgery, and 1 was treated percutaneously. …”
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Clinical Course and Response to Therapy in Different Types of Amblyopia by Reşat Duman, Huban Atilla

“…And also we emphasize that strabismus affects binocular function loss more than anisometropia, even though the anisometropic cases had higher degree of amblyopia they had a better prognosis than the strabismus cases. …”
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PROTEOLYTIC ACTIVITY OF MILK-CLOTTING ENZYMES OF DIFFERENT ORIGIN by D. S. Myagkonosov, D. V. Abramov, I. N. Delitskaya, E. G. Ovchinnikova

“…MEPs of animal origin had a lower indicator of MCA/ PA compared to recombinant chymosins, which for different trademarks of MEPs with different ratios of%chymosin to%pepsin was equal to: Naturen® Extra 220 (95/5) = 199.7 ± 8.0; rennet SF “Extra” (90/10) = 122.1 ±1.9; Kalase® 150 (80/20) = 115.1 ± 0.7; Naturen® Stamix (50/50) = 86.2 ± 0.2; rennet FS10 “Bovine pepsin” (10/90) = 38.7 ± 1.8. …”
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The Effect of Different Media on In Vitro Micropropagation in Sweet Potatoes by Yasin Bedrettin Karan, Şevket Özdemir

“…Havuc local genotype had higher values in terms of the investigated traits in all of the media studied.…”
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Effects of different fermentation methods on the quality of sour cowpea by SUN Yu, ZHOU Zhugui, LIU Jian, XIN Ming, LI Changbao, FENG Jinqing, LI Jieming, LI Tianyu, YE Dongqing, LING Dongning

“…After fermentation, the DVS group had the lowest salinity, nitrite, b* values, and the highest amino acid nitrogen, free amino acids, lactic acid bacteria count, sensory score, hardness, viscosity, gelatinousness and chewiness, but L* values, a* values and elasticity were not significantly different from the other fermentation methods (P>0.05). …”
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Effect of different hemodialysis modalities on resistin and nutritional status by HUANG Jing-jing, ZHANG Jin-ping, WANG Jia, WANG Xin, WANG Wei-wei, YANG Xiao-ping

“…Objective To investigate the level of resistin in the patients with different hemodialysis modalities and its influence on nutritional status.Methods A total of 55 hemodialysis patients were randomly divided into low flux hemodialysis group(LFHD,n=27)and high flux hemodialysis group(HFHD,n=28),and compared with 30 healthy volunteers(normal control group).All of them were selected as the study objects in the First Affiliated Hospital of Shihezi University.The levels of serum resistin before and after dialysis were determined by enzymelinked immunosorbent assay(ELISA).Fasting samples of venous blood were obtained in 55 hemodialysis patients before dialysis and the following biochemical indexes were measured:for nutrition index,total protein(TP),albumin(Alb),prealbumin(PA),hemoglobin(Hb);for inflammation indicators,C reactive protein(CRP),ferritin(Fer);for blood lipids,serum total cholesterol(TC),triglyceride(TG),low density lipoprotein(LDL),high density lipoprotein(HDL);for renal function and electrolyte,renal urea nitrogen(BUN),serum creatinine(SCr),uric acid(UA),kalium(K),calcium(Ca),phosphorus(P),magnesium(Mg).The differences in resistin levels and biochemical indexes were compared between the two groups.All of the patients underwent subjective comprehensive nutritional assessment by specially-assigned person and according to the guidelines,at the same time the clinical data of the subjects were collected.The changes of resistin levels in each dialysis group were analyzed and their relationships with the above biochemical indexes were analyzed.Results(1)As compared with the normal control group,the resistin level in LFHD group and HFHD group was significantly increased.There was no statistically significant difference between LFHD group and HFHD group in the level of pre-dialysis resistance and the level of resistin.There was no significant difference in resistin level between LFHD group and HFHD group before and after dialysis.There were statistically significant differences in the level of resistin before and after dialysis in HFHD group.(2)The differences in Alb,PA and SGA in patients undergoing different hemodialysis methods were statistically significant.As compared with LFHD group,HFHD group had higher Alb and PA but lower SGA scores;(3)Single factor analysis revealed that serum resistin was positively correlated with SCr and CRP(r=0.768,and r=0.473,P<0.05),and negatively correlated with glomerular filtration rate(eGFR)(r=-0.813,P<0.05).Serum resistin was positively correlated with TC,TG,LDL and SGA(r=0.408,r=0.294,r=0.397,and r=0.286 respectively,P<0.05).(4)Multiple linear regression analysis demonstrated that eGFR and CRP had influence on the level of resistin,and the dialysis mode had no significant effect on it.Conclusions High flux dialysis may eliminate some of the resistin.Resistin in hemodialysis patients is closely related to their nutritional status.…”
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Hepcidin levels and their determinants in different types of myelodysplastic syndromes. by Valeria Santini, Domenico Girelli, Alessandro Sanna, Nicola Martinelli, Lorena Duca, Natascia Campostrini, Agostino Cortelezzi, Michela Corbella, Alberto Bosi, Gianluigi Reda, Oliviero Olivieri, Maria Domenica Cappellini

“…Consistently with current knowledge on hepcidin action/regulation, RARS patients had the highest levels of toxic non-transferrin-bound-iron, while RAEB and CMML patients had substantial elevation of C-Reactive Protein as compared to other MDS subtypes, and showed lost of homeostatic regulation by iron. …”
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The effects of different ischemic conditioning on strength training recovery by Fan Zihan, Fu Yanqing, Wu Ying

“…Muscle soreness, thigh circumference (TC), countermovement jumps (CMJ), knee isokinetic muscle strength (peak torque [PT], relative peak torque [RPT]), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), creatine kinase (CK), malondialdehyde (MDA), superoxide dismutase (SOD), total antioxidant capacity (T-AOC), C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) were measured at baseline, 24 h after the first intervention (1 st –24 h), and 24 h and 48 h after the fifth intervention (5 th –24 h, 5 th –48 h). No significant differences were found in CMJ in PEIC at all timepoints ( P > 0.05), while IPC had lower CMJ at 1 st –24 h than baseline ( P < 0.05). …”
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