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Predicting mortality and visualizing health care spending by predicted mortality in Danes over age 65
Health care expenditure in the last year of life makes up a high proportion of medical spending across the world. This is often framed as waste, but...
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Sex-specific cardiovascular remodeling leads to a divergent sex-dependent development of heart failure in aged hypertensive rats
IntroductionThe prevalence of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is continuously rising and predominantly affects older women...
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The global estimate of premature cardiovascular mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of age-standardized mortality rate
BackgroundCardiovascular disease (CVD) is a significant cause of premature mortality worldwide, with a growing burden in recent years. Despite this,...
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Sex-specific treatment characteristics and 30-day mortality outcomes of critically ill COVID-19 patients over 70 years of age—results from the prospective COVIP study
PurposeOlder critically ill patients with COVID-19 have been the most vulnerable during the ongoing pandemic, with men being more prone to...
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The predictive value of cardiovascular outcomes and mortality assessed by the C-reactive protein to albumin ratio in the UK Biobank
BackgroundThe C-reactive protein/albumin ratio (CAR) seems to mirror disease severity and prognosis in several acute disorders particularly in...
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Sex/Gender Differences in the Diseases
Biological and sociocultural factors related to sex and gender interact to influence noncommunicable diseases. However, as individuals enter...
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Bidirectional Sex Change in Fishes
This chapter explains the distribution of bidirectional sex change among teleost fishes, the social context of bidirectional sex change in each...
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Can sex differences in spatiotemporal distribution and age composition explain the female-biased sex ratio observed in the catch of butterfly kingfish Gasterochisma melampus?
The catch of butterfly kingfish Gasterochisma melampus , a large pelagic species in southern temperate waters, is strongly biased (73%) towards...
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Sex-specific effect of body mass index and fasting glucose on gastric cancer risk and all causes mortality; a cohort study of 5.17 million
BackgroundSimultaneous evaluation of sex-specific effect of body mass index (BMI) and hyperglycemia on the risk of gastric cancer has been rarely...
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Outcomes by disease onset, sex, and intervention in neonates with SIP and surgical NEC
BackgroundOutcomes of infants following surgical necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and spontaneous intestinal perforation (SIP) categorized by the age...
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Decomposition of Quality-Adjusted Life Expectancy Inequalities by Mortality and Health-Related Quality of Life Dimensions
BackgroundQuality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) combines mortality risk and multidimensional health-related quality of life (HRQoL) information to...
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Sex-differences in COVID-19 associated excess mortality is not exceptional for the COVID-19 pandemic
Europe experienced excess mortality from February through June, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with more COVID-19-associated deaths in males...
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Intracerebral hemorrhage mortality in individuals with atrial fibrillation: a nationwide analysis of mortality trends in the United States
BackgroundAtrial fibrillation (AF) is a risk factor for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), both with and without use of anticoagulation. Limited data...
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Sex/Gender Differences in Pediatric Gastrointestinal Diseases
To date, studies on gender differences between males and females in gastrointestinal diseases in children and adolescents are still lacking. In...
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A robust COVID-19 mortality prediction calculator based on Lymphocyte count, Urea, C-Reactive Protein, Age and Sex (LUCAS) with chest X-rays
There have been numerous risk tools developed to enable triaging of SARS-CoV-2 positive patients with diverse levels of complexity. Here we presented...
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Association of muscle mass and radiodensity assessed by chest CT with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in hemodialysis patients
PurposeThis study investigates the prognostic value of skeletal muscle index (SMI) and skeletal muscle radiodensity (SMD) measured by chest CT in...
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Excess mortality in adults from Sao Paulo during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: analyses of all-cause and noncommunicable diseases mortality
In this study, we estimated the excess mortality from all-causes of death and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in adults living in the state of São...
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Different patterns of excess all-cause mortality by age and sex in Hungary during the 2nd and 3rd waves of the COVID-19 pandemic
It is well accepted that COVID-19-related mortality shows a strong age dependency. However, temporal changes in the age distribution of excess...
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Sex/Gender Differences in Infectious Diseases
The immune response to infectious pathogens varies between men and women. Women exhibit a higher ability to recognize pathogens, recruit more innate...