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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...
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Socio-Territorial Configuration of Mortality by Chronic Diseases of Greater Prevalence
Chronic diseases are the leading causes of death worldwide, being the low and middle-income countries the worst affected. Only two of these mortality...
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Demographic changes in COVID-19 mortality during the pandemic: analysis of trends in disparities among workers using California’s mortality surveillance system
BackgroundThere is limited information on the extent and patterns of disparities in COVID-19 mortality throughout the pandemic. We aimed to examine...
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Sex differences in infective endocarditis: a Danish nationwide study
PurposeSex differences in infective endocarditis (IE) are reported, but patient characteristics are sparse and conflicting findings on the...
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Enabling the examination of long-term mortality trends by educational level for England and Wales in a time-consistent and internationally comparable manner
BackgroundStudying long-term trends in educational inequalities in health is important for monitoring and policy evaluation. Data issues regarding...
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Sex Differences in Cardiac Transplantation
Purpose of ReviewThe goal of this review was to summarize contemporary evidence surrounding sex differences in heart transplantation (HT).
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Sex Differences in the Human Skin
The male and female skin differ in many ways. The skin is thicker in males than in females in all age groups, while subcutaneous tissue is thicker in...
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International Trends in Adverse Drug Event-Related Mortality from 2001 to 2019: An Analysis of the World Health Organization Mortality Database from 54 Countries
Background and ObjectiveAdverse drug events (ADEs) are becoming a significant public health issue. However, reports on ADE-related mortality are...
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Reducing childhood mortality extends mothers’ lives
During the twentieth century, childhood mortality was dramatically reduced globally, falling by more than 90% in the United States and much of...
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Depressive symptoms and mortality – effect variation by body mass index: a prospective study in a primary care population
Background/ObjectivePre-existing diseases have been found to affect the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and mortality. However,...
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Early Neonatal Mortality in India
There has been a substantial decline in infant and child mortality in the recent decade compared to the Neonatal mortality rate; this has...
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Strong associations of serum selenoprotein P with all-cause mortality and mortality due to cancer, cardiovascular, respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases in older German adults
BackgroundSelenium is an essential trace mineral. The main function of selenoprotein P (SELENOP) is to transport selenium but it has also been...
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No evidence of sex ratio manipulation by black-throated blue warblers in response to food availability
Sex allocation theory predicts that females should bias their offspring sex ratios when the fitness benefits of producing sons or daughters differ...
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Progress towards the 2020 milestones of the end TB strategy in Cambodia: estimates of age and sex specific TB incidence and mortality from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
BackgroundCambodia was recently removed from the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) top 30 high tuberculosis (TB) burden countries. However,...
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Age, sex and Alzheimer’s disease: a longitudinal study of 3xTg-AD mice reveals sex-specific disease trajectories and inflammatory responses mirrored in postmortem brains from Alzheimer’s patients
BackgroundAging and sex are major risk factors for develo** late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Compared to men, women experience worse...
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Sex differences in colorectal cancer: with a focus on sex hormone–gut microbiome axis
Sexual dimorphism has been observed in the incidence and prognosis of colorectal cancer (CRC), with men generally exhibiting a slightly higher...
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Immune cell phenotypes and mortality in the Framingham Heart Study
BackgroundGlobal life expectancy is rising, with the 60 + age group projected to hit 2 billion by 2050. Aging impacts the immune system. A notable...
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Sex/Gender Differences in Obesity
Sex differences exist in adipocyte function and accumulation. Men tend to accumulate more visceral fatvisceral fat, which contributes to the male...
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Association of serum copper (Cu) with cardiovascular mortality and all-cause mortality in a general population: a prospective cohort study
BackgroundCopper (Cu) homeostasis and Cu-induced cell death are gaining recognition as crucial processes in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular...
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Mortality and Health Developments in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro
The scope of this paper is to analyse the mortality transitionMortality transition in two newly established countries that emerged after Yugoslavia’s...