Understanding the Epidemiology of Monkeypox Virus to Prevent Future Outbreaks by Jimmy Steven Velásquez, Fabiola Beatriz Herrera-Echeverría, Héctor Salvador Porres-Paredes, Carmen Rodríguez-Cerdeira

“…Furthermore, 71% were men who had sex with men, and 34% were HIV carriers. Regarding the morphology of the lesions, approximately 63% presented with papulonecrotic rash, which sometimes alternated with pustules depending on the stage they were in. …”
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Assessing Murphy Sequence as a Clinical Element in Acute Appendicitis Diagnosis by Andy Rocha Quintana, Orisel Fernández Suárez, Elianne Rodríguez Larraburu, César Jorge Castro Rodríguez

“…Variables analyzed: age, sex, skin color, evolution duration and order of appearance of symptoms, presentation of Murphy Sequence, complementary tests and pathological diagnosis. …”
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Prevalence of hypertension and associated risk factors in Suburban Tamil Nadu by S Mohanraj, Krishnan Swaminathan, G Velmurugan, Thomas Alexander, Nalla G Palaniswami

“…On multivariate logistic regression, after adjustment for age and sex, HTN was significantly associated with diabetes and atherosclerosis. …”
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Risk Factors of Dental Cavities in Children by Elsa Luján Hernández, Marta Luján Hernández, Nora Sexto Delgado

“…Affectation due to cavities, malocclusion, and parodontopathies, age, sex, scholar degree, bad oral hygiene, previous experience of cavities in primary and permanent dentition, saliva viscosity, dental overlapping, orthodontic treatment, and sugar candies ingestions were the variables analyzed. …”
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Androgen Receptor and Non-Coding RNAs’ Interaction in Renal Cell Carcinoma by Manal A. Hussain, Noha M. Elemam, Iman M. Talaat

“…Males with RCC exhibit a higher mortality rate and tend to develop a more aggressive form of the disease than females. Sex-related risk factors, including lifestyle and biological variations, explain this difference. …”
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Varied Presentations of Basal Cell Carcinoma and Its Management with Reconstruction of Defects: An Experience from a Tertiary Healthcare Centre by Gautam Prakash, Vaibhav Jain, Aditya Sharma

“…The details of each patient including age, sex, BCC type, location, defect size (cm), type of reconstruction, and esthetic outcome were analyzed. …”
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Students’ Possession of Social and Emotional Learning Competencies in the Second Cycle Schools of Basic Education in the Sultanate of Oman by Ali Said Sulayiam Al Matari, Moza Abdullah Almoqbali, Iman Mohammad Almaawali

“…There are statistically significant differences in the degree to which students have social and emotional learning competencies in the schools of the second episode of basic education in Oman in the total degree attributable to the sex variable, in favor of females (female students), while there are no statistically significant differences in the degree to which students have the competencies of social and emotional learning in the overall degree depending on the age variable. …”
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Skin Diseases in a Pediatric Hospital of Nepal by Roushan Jahan, Shreedhar Khanal, Shraddha Shrestha, Niraj Parajuli

“…Demographic details of all the patients such as age and sex were recorded. The diagnosis was made clinically in most instances and appropriate laboratory and histopathological examination were performed wherever necessary. …”
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Sociodemographic Factors and Antenatal Service Utilization among Severe Acute Malnutrition Children under 2 Years of Age, Western India (Rajkot, Gujarat) – A Hospital-based Case-Co... by Rujal D. Bhitora, Vibha V. Gosalia, Harsha M. Solanki

“…Cases (77) and controls (77) were matched for age and sex with 1:1 ratio. Cases were selected from Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre and controls from an immunization clinic using WHO’s Multicentric Growth Reference Study Criteria 2006. …”
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Intersectional trends in poor mental health and health inequities across the US by Kieran Blaikie, Stephen J. Mooney, Heather D. Hill, Isaac C. Rhew, Anjum Hajat

“…To address this, we use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to non-parametrically describe how age-standardized prevalence of frequent mental distress (FMD) and social inequities in FMD have changed in the United States between 1993 and 2019 for intersectional social groups defined by ethnicity, race, sex, educational attainment, and household poverty status. …”
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Prevalence of occipitalisation in a South African Black population: An original study of 1119 skulls with a review of the literature by Bernard T. Boekkooi, Glen J. Paton, Shahed Nalla

“…Conclusion: This study established a baseline prevalence of occipitalisation in the South African Black population at 0.27 % and found no significant association between sex and occipitalisation (p = 0.236). This study highlights the need for further studies in the other African population affinity groups.…”
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BEHAVIOUR AMONG FEMALE MIGRANTS IN MAKURDI, BENUE STATE by ONYEMA ANGELA ABEL

“…Conflict and unemployment are the major causes of risky sexual behavior (29.3%and23.4%respective). 20.5% had multiple sexual pattern, 25 9% had casual sex without the use of condom. Pattern of movement was largely rural–urban. …”
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Cerebral Blood Flow Alterations in High Myopia: An Arterial Spin Labeling Study by Huihui Wang, Shanshan Li, Xi Chen, Yanling Wang, Jing Li, Zhenchang Wang

“…A total of sixteen patients with bilateral HM and sixteen age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HCs) were recruited. …”
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Application of Cart Method in Analyzing Factors Affecting Nutritional Status of Children Aged 6-23 Months by Izzati Rahmi, Yozza Hazmira, Husna Radhiatul, Rahmy Hafifatul Auliya

“…In this study,  variables that are hypothesized to contribute to nutritional status are sex, birth weight, family income, number of family dependents, exclusive breastfeeding status, mother's employment status, education level, knowledge and nutritional behavior. …”
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Motor Control and Neural Plasticity through Interhemispheric Interactions by Naoyuki Takeuchi, Yutaka Oouchida, Shin-Ichi Izumi

“…As a brain structural imaging, diffusion tensor imaging has revealed the microstructural connectivity underlying interhemispheric interactions. Sex, age, and motor training in addition to the size of the corpus callosum influence interhemispheric interactions. …”
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Characterization of Suicidal Attempt in Adolescents of the Cumanayagua Municipality by Tamara Montenegro Calderón, Juan Carlos Fernández Wilcapi, Julio César Díaz Marrero, Narciso Águila Rodríguez, Alexis Díaz Brito

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> there were a higher number of suicidal attempts in the female sex, white skin, single and secundary schooling. …”
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Comparison of low back pain prevalence in adults between pre-pandemic and pandemic periods and related biopsychosocial aspects by Kerolyne Soares Mayer, Betiane Moreira Pilling, Cláudia Tarragô Candotti

“…The sample of this retrospective study with a comparative ex post facto design consisted of 80 individuals with complaints of low back pain, divided by sex, age, height, and body mass-matched groups: 40 individuals in the pre-pandemic group (PPG) and 40 individuals in the pandemic group (PG), who were involved in university outreach projects. …”
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The leadership and supervisory practices of principals in public secondary schools of the State of Amhara, Ethiopia, as perceived by teachers by Melaku Mengistu Gebremeskel, Demeke Wolie Ambaye

“…Teachers have very weak differences in terms of three demographic factors, except sex which has no difference at all, regarding their poor leadership practices. …”
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Epidemiologic trends of cleft lip and/or palate in Switzerland by Joël Beyeler, Anic Lauener, Christos Katsaros, Giorgio C. La Scala, Martin Degen

“…Methods This is the first descriptive study to report data on the prevalence of the various cleft types, their sex, and regional distributions in Switzerland. …”
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The IMPACT OF SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE GENETIC POLYMORPHISM (SOD2 VAL16ALA) AND SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE LEVEL ON DISEASE SEVERITY IN A COHORT OF EGYPTIAN SICKLE CELL DISEASE PATIENTS IN... by Mervat Khorshied, Iman Shaheen, Yasmeen Selim, Asmaa Elshahawy, Ilham Youssry

“…Methods: Genotyping SOD2 Val16Ala polymorphism by TaqMan allelic discrimination assay for hundred SCD patients and a hundred age-sex matched healthy controls revealed the genotypic and allelic frequencies of the studied polymorphism in the SCD patients were close to that of the controls. …”
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