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Prevalence of skin diseases in Taiwan prisons: a population-based study
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background The prevalence of skin diseases among prisoners in Taiwan has rarely been investigated. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of skin diseases by sex in a sample of prisoners in Taiwan.
Zhu Liduzi Jiesisibieke +4 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Host characteristics, such as sex and age, are closely associated with the structure and function of gut microbiota; however, less is known about the effects of age and sex on the gut microbiota of nonhuman primates, and therefore, our knowledge of ...
Yuhui Li +4 more
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Sex Differences in Elite Swimming with Advanced Age Are Less Than Marathon Running [PDF]
, 2015 The sex difference in marathon performance increases with finishing place and age of the runner but whether this occurs among swimmers is unknown. The purpose was to compare sex differences in swimming velocity across world record place (1st–10th), age ...
Hunter, Sandra K. +3 more
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Risk of epilepsy in opposite-sex and same-sex twins: a twin cohort study
Biology of Sex Differences, 2018 Background There is a complex interaction between female and male sex hormones and the risk of epilepsy. Whether prenatal exposure to higher levels of sex hormones affects the development of epilepsy in childhood or later in life is not well known.
Yanyan Mao +6 more
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Sex difference in bowel preparation quality and colonoscopy time [PDF]
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine, 2021 Background/Aims The length of colon is known to be longer in females than in males. In addition, the morphology of colon cancer is different between males and females.
Young-Jae Hwang +6 more
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Sex difference in hemispheric lateralization [PDF]
, 1991 Study of sexual differences for the hemispheric prevalence on visual verbal stimuli using a microcomputer-based tachistoscope technic. Seventeen right-handed individuals, 10 males and 7 females (mean age 32 years old), without neurological or visual ...
Campos, Carlos José Reis De +3 more
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A sex difference in the response of the rodent postsynaptic density to synGAP haploinsufficiency [PDF]
, 2020 SynGAP is a postsynaptic density (PSD) protein that binds to PDZ domains of the scaffold protein PSD-95. We previously reported that heterozygous deletion of Syngap1 in mice is correlated with increased steady-state levels of other key PSD proteins that ...
Basu, Shinjini +6 more
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Sex Differences and Mechanisms of Task-Specific Muscle Fatigue [PDF]
, 2009 Women can be less fatigable than men due to sex-related differences within the neuromuscular system that impact physiological adjustments during a fatiguing task. The involved mechanism(s) for the sex difference, however, is task specific.
Hunter, Sandra K.
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BMC Psychiatry, 2022 Background Accumulating evidence shows that homocysteine (Hcy) is implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, and plays an important role in clinical characteristics. This study evaluated the relationships between Hcy levels and clinical features
Xu Yang +5 more
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Men Are More Likely than Women to Slow in the Marathon [PDF]
, 2014 Studies on nonelite distance runners suggest that men are more likely than women to slow their pace in a marathon. Purpose: This study determined the reliability of the sex difference in pacing across many marathons and after adjusting women\u27s ...
Carter, Rickey E. +3 more
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