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Differences of Clinical Characteristics and Drug Prescriptions between Men and Women with COPD in China

Toxics, 2023
Background: Sex differences in symptoms exist in patients with COPD. Our aim is to measure the differences between men and women with COPD, focusing on risk factors, symptoms, quality of life and drug prescriptions.
Yuqin Zeng, Martijn A Spruit, Qichen Deng, Frits M. E. Franssen, Ping Chen   +4 more
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Unthought nature : reply to Penelope Deutscher and Mary Beth Mader. [PDF]

, 2008
In response to Mader's and Deutscher's questions, the author defends her approach to reading Irigaray and Butler, which entails extending the ideas of these thinkers into areas of thought with which they do not engage directly themselves.
Stone, Alison
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Sex, age, type of diabetes and incidence of atrial fibrillation in patients with diabetes mellitus: a nationwide analysis

Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2021
Background There remain uncertainties regarding diabetes mellitus and the incidence of atrial fibrillation (AF), in relation to type of diabetes, and the interactions with sex and age.
Arnaud Bisson, Alexandre Bodin, Grégoire Fauchier, Julien Herbert, Denis Angoulvant, Pierre Henri Ducluzeau, Gregory Y. H. Lip, Laurent Fauchier   +7 more
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PPARα in Obesity: Sex Difference and Estrogen Involvement

PPAR Research, 2010
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α (PPARα) is a member of the steroid hormone receptor superfamily and is well known to act as the molecular target for lipid-lowering drugs of the fibrate family.
Michung Yoon
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Quantifying the variability of neural activation in working memory: A functional probabilistic atlas

NeuroImage, 2021
Working memory is a fundamental cognitive ability that allows the maintenance and manipulation of information for a brief period of time. Previous studies found a set of brain regions activated during working memory tasks, such as the prefrontal and ...
Chen Chen, Ying Zhang, Zonglei Zhen, Yiying Song, Siyuan Hu, Jia Liu   +5 more
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Are sexes natural kinds? [PDF]

, 2021
Asking whether the sexes are natural kinds amounts to asking whether the categories, female and male, identify real divisions in nature, like the distinctions between biological species, or whether they mark merely artificial or arbitrary distinctions ...
Khalidi, Muhammad Ali
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Disabled people faced greater challenges accessing sexual and reproductive health services in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Britain: evidence from the Natsal-COVID survey

BMC Public Health
Background Disabled people face barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. There is evidence that the general population had difficulty accessing SRH services during COVID-19 but it remains unclear whether disabled people were ...
Beattie R. H. Sturrock, Emily Dema, Raquel Bosó Pérez, Lorraine Stanley, Jo Gibbs, Pam Sonnenberg, Kirstin R. Mitchell, Catherine H. Mercer, Nigel Field   +8 more
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Sex Differences in Fatigability of Dynamic Contractions [PDF]

, 2016
Women are usually less fatigable than men during single-limb isometric contractions, primarily because of sex-related differences in contractile mechanisms.
Hunter, Sandra K.
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A Sex Difference in Facial Contrast and its Exaggeration by Cosmetics

, 2009
This study demonstrates the existence of a sex difference in facial contrast. By measuring carefully controlled photographic images, female faces were shown to have greater luminance contrast between the eyes, lips, and the surrounding skin than did male
Russell, Richard
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Sex Differences in Mechanisms of Recovery after Isometric and Dynamic Fatiguing Tasks [PDF]

, 2018
Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine whether supraspinal mechanisms contribute to the sex difference in fatigability during and recovery from a dynamic and isometric fatiguing task with the knee extensors.
Elliott, Nicholas, Hunter, Sandra K., Pereira, Hugo M., Senefeld, Jonathon, Yoon, Tejin   +4 more
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