Gender differences in Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction by Gailan Sherzad Mustafa, Abdulkareem Abdulwahab Al-Othman

“… Background and Objectives: Studies evaluating gender differences and outcomes in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction are limited in Iraq. …”
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DIFFERENCES IN INTERLEUKIN-23 SERUM LEVELS TOWARDS THE SEVERITY OF ACNE VULGARIS IN WOMEN by Wafi Banadzir Resya, Novi Kusumaningrum, Santoso Jaeri, Astika Widy Utomo

“…Objective: To find out differences in IL-23 serum levels and the grade of AV severity in women. …”
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Characterizing differences in the muscle transcriptome between cattle with alternative LCORL-NCAPG haplotypes by Fernanda Martins Rodrigues, Leif E. Majeres, Anna C. Dilger, Joshua C. McCann, Christopher J. Cassady, Dan W. Shike, Jonathan E. Beever

“…Conclusions The differences in the muscle transcriptome between QQ and qq animals imply that muscle hypertrophy may be metabolically favored over accumulation of fat in animals with the QQ haplotype. …”
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Similarities and differences in the characteristics of the epidemical process tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme borreliosis by L. V. Rubis, O. V. Ekimova, О. S. Safonova, V. Е. Chevskaya

“…The proportion of urban residents among patients with both infections is higher, but the incidence of urban and rural populations did not have significant differences. The incidence rates of tick-borne borreliosis in persons aged 40-49, 50-59 and 60 years and older are 1.6-2.2 times higher than those of tick-borne encephalitis, but the difference is not significant. …”
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Differences in the Faecal Microbiome in Schistosoma haematobium Infected Children vs. Uninfected Children. by Gemma Louise Kay, Andrew Millard, Martin J Sergeant, Nicholas Midzi, Reggis Gwisai, Takafira Mduluza, Alasdair Ivens, Norman Nausch, Francisca Mutapi, Mark Pallen

“…The relative abundance of taxa among bacterial classes showed limited variation by age group or sex and the bacterial communities had similar overall compositions. Although there were no overall differences in the microbiome structure across the whole age range, the abundance of 21 OTUs varied significantly with age (FDR<0.05). …”
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Differences in health related quality of life among older migrants and nonmigrants in India by Vasim Ahamad, Ram B. Bhagat

“…The findings of our study reveal that persons with migration status had lower HRQoL than non-migrants. Some migration-related factors were significantly associated with HRQoL among migrants. …”
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DIFFERENCES IN PHYSICAL FITNESS AND BODY MEASURES BETWEEN CHILDREN WITH AND WITHOUT OLDER SIBLINGS by Ivan Šerbetar, Patricija Peharda, Anamarija Plečko

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Conflicting gender-related differences in the natural history of patients with Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy. by Laura Vitali Serdoz, Cristina Lutman, Elena Cadamuro, Giulia Barbati, Massimo Zecchin, Marco Merlo, Ilaria Puggia, Bruno Pinamonti, Andrea Di Lenarda, Gianfranco Sinagra

“…From 1988 to 2012, we evaluated 803 consecutive patients with IDCM recorded in the Heart Muscle Disease Registry of Trieste (Italy). All patients had serial follow-up evaluations at 6, 12, and 24 months, and subsequently every two years, or more frequently if clinically indicated. …”
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Child mortality estimation: estimating sex differences in childhood mortality since the 1970s. by Cheryl Chriss Sawyer

“…Further study of the distribution of causes of death in different settings will aid the interpretation of differences in survival for boys and girls. …”
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Gender Differences in a Cohort of Children with Eating Disorders: A Retrospective Study by Isabella Tarissi de Jacobis, Elena Inzaghi, Elena Bozzola, Valeria Zanna, Cristina Mascolo, Sara Caterina Kupiec, Maria Rosaria Marchili

“…However, male patients had a shorter hospital stay (14.8 vs. 19.9 days, <i>p</i> < 0.05) and showed a tendency to a greater clinical improvement. …”
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Analysis of Gene Differences Between F and B Epidemic Lineages of Bandavirus Dabieense by Wenzhou Ma, Yujia Hao, Chengcheng Peng, Duo Zhang, Yuge Yuan, Pengpeng Xiao, Nan Li

“…Conclusively, the differences in SFTSV between B and F lineages may be related to gene recombination of M and L fragments, it was also found that the B lineage had a lower recombination rate and mutation rate than the F lineage, and the evolutionary rate was prominently different. …”
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Soundscape analysis reveals fine ecological differences among coral reef habitats by Juan Carlos Azofeifa-Solano, Miles J.G. Parsons, Rohan Brooker, Robert McCauley, Daniel Pygas, William Feeney, Steve Simpson, Sophie L. Nedelec, Eve M. Croxford, Mark Meekan, Christine Erbe

“…Acoustic analysis revealed these habitats also had unique nighttime soundscapes, driven by amplitude (loudness) and uniformity (sound diversity) differences linked to fish and invertebrate activity. …”
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Standard mouse diets lead to differences in severity in infectious and non-infectious colitis by Joshua E. Denny, Julia N. Flores, Nontokozo V. Mdluli, Michael C. Abt

“…Both diets are grain-based with comparable profiles of macro and micronutrient composition. Diet 5010-fed mice had severe morbidity and mortality compared to Diet 5053-fed mice despite no differences in C. difficile colonization or toxin production. …”
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Sepsis Presentation, Interventions, and Outcome Differences Among Men and Women in the Emergency Department by Joseph O’Brien, Jon W. Schrock

“…Sepsis was defined according to International Classification of Diseases, 10 th Rev, codes. To evaluate sex differences in sepsis presentation, we collected data on age, comorbidities, sex, vital signs, laboratory values, medications, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, mechanical ventilation, and mortality at 30 days, 90 days, and one year. …”
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Sex differences in the role of AKAP12 in behavioral function of middle-aged mice by Hidehiro Ishikawa, Shintaro Kimura, Hajime Takase, Maximillian Borlongan, Norito Fukuda, Tomonori Hoshino, Gen Hamanaka, Ji Hyun Park, Akihiro Shindo, Kyu-Won Kim, Irwin H. Gelman, Josephine Lok, Eng H. Lo, Ken Arai

“…While recent studies suggest an important role for AKAP12 in the brain, including cognitive functions, its role in middle-aged mice and potential sex differences are not fully understood. Therefore, this study investigated the effects of AKAP12 on cognitive and exploratory behavior in middle-aged mice, focusing on sex differences. …”
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Sex differences in skin microvascular structure and function in persons with newly diagnosed hypertension by A. A. Fedorovich, A. Yu. Gorshkov, A. I. Korolev, K. V. Omelyanenko, V. A. Dadaeva, M. A. Mikhailova, M. G. Chashchin, O. M. Drapkina

“…Aim. To determine sex differences in the structural and functional state of skin microcirculation in individuals with newly diagnosed hypertension.Material and methods. …”
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Mutation types of CYP3A enzymes and sex differences in sufentanil metabolism by JIANG Ying, QIN Zhigang, QIN Zhigang, FENG Liyuan

“…Results The cohort best fitted the two-compartment pharmacokinetic model, and groups A, B and C corresponded to group Ⅰ, Ⅱ and Ⅲ, respectively. In different patient groups based on mutatron types of CYP3A enzymes the females had lower plasma drug concentration-time curves at each time point, higher systemic clearance (P≤0.01) and smaller area under the plasma concentration-time curve from zero to infinity (P<0.05) when compared with the males. …”
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Sex differences in hospital outcomes of medically-managed type B aortic dissection by Paulina Luna, Faris Amil, Mary J. Roman, Nickpreet Singh, Teagan Iranitalab, Jim W. Cheung, Ilhwan Yeo, Richard B. Devereux, Jonathan Weinsaft, Leonard Girardi, Alicia Mecklai, Rebecca Ascunce, Julie Marcus, Pritha Subramanyam, Amrita Krishnamurthy, Diala Steitieh, Luke Kim, Nupoor Narula

“…However, there were no sex differences in readmission risk at 30, 90, and 180 days. …”
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Age‐Related Differences in Takotsubo Syndrome: Results From the Multicenter GEIST Registry by Ibrahim El‐Battrawy, Francesco Santoro, Iván J. Núñez‐Gil, Toni Pätz, Luca Arcari, Mohammad Abumayyaleh, Federico Guerra, Giuseppina Novo, Beatrice Musumeci, Luca Cacciotti, Enrica Mariano, Pasquale Caldarola, Giuseppe Parisi, Roberta Montisci, Enrica Vitale, Massimo Volpe, Miguel Corbì‐Pasqual, Manuel Martinez‐Selles, Manuel Almendro‐Delia, Alessandro Sionis, Aitor Uribarri, Holger Thiele, Natale Daniele Brunetti, Ingo Eitel, Ibrahim Akin, Thomas Stiermaier

“…The aim of the present study was to evaluate age‐related differences and prognostic implications among patients with TTS. …”
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Differences in dialysis modality choice between immigrant and native populations in Barcelona, Spain by María Dolores Arenas-Jiménez, Jose Luis Fernandez-Martin, Isabel Galcerán Herrera, Marisol Fernández-Chamarro, Guillermo Pedreira-Robles, Silvia Collado Nieto, Julia Farrera Núñez, Eva Rodríguez García, Alicia Moreno Rodríguez, Laura Morro Fernández, Marta Crespo Barrio, Julio Pascual Santos

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