2013, ISBN 9780739181881, xviii, 292
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Stroke, ISSN 0039-2499, 10/2016, Volume 47, Issue 10, pp. 2618 - 2626
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE—Sex-specific disparities in stroke care including thrombolytic therapy and early hospital admission are reported. In a large registry of...
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke | sex characteristics | stroke | Get With The Guidelines | FUTURE | AMERICAN-HEART-ASSOCIATION | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | WOMEN | EMERGENCY-DEPARTMENT | IMPROVEMENT | PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE | IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY | OUTCOMES | GENDER-DIFFERENCES | PROGRAM | REGISTRY | Severity of Illness Index | Age Factors | Humans | Middle Aged | Risk Factors | Stroke - diagnosis | Male | Stroke - drug therapy | Tissue Plasminogen Activator - therapeutic use | Time Factors | Brain Ischemia - drug therapy | Fibrinolytic Agents - therapeutic use | Thrombolytic Therapy | Sex Factors | Aged, 80 and over | Brain Ischemia - diagnosis | Healthcare Disparities | Female | Registries | Aged
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke | sex characteristics | stroke | Get With The Guidelines | FUTURE | AMERICAN-HEART-ASSOCIATION | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | WOMEN | EMERGENCY-DEPARTMENT | IMPROVEMENT | PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE | IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY | OUTCOMES | GENDER-DIFFERENCES | PROGRAM | REGISTRY | Severity of Illness Index | Age Factors | Humans | Middle Aged | Risk Factors | Stroke - diagnosis | Male | Stroke - drug therapy | Tissue Plasminogen Activator - therapeutic use | Time Factors | Brain Ischemia - drug therapy | Fibrinolytic Agents - therapeutic use | Thrombolytic Therapy | Sex Factors | Aged, 80 and over | Brain Ischemia - diagnosis | Healthcare Disparities | Female | Registries | Aged
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Future Oncology, ISSN 1479-6694, 11/2010, Volume 6, Issue 11, pp. 1771 - 1779
Cancer gender disparity in incidence, disease aggressiveness and prognosis has been observed in a variety of cancers. Thyroid cancer is one of the fastest...
risk factors | genetics | gender | molecular basis | disparity | papillary thyroid cancer | thyroid cancer | RISK-FACTORS | BRAF V600E MUTATION | RADIATION | ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR | POLISH POPULATION | ONCOLOGY | REPRODUCTIVE FACTORS | POOLED ANALYSIS | RET/PTC ACTIVATION | PAPILLARY | CARCINOMA | Thyroid Neoplasms - genetics | Gonadal Steroid Hormones - metabolism | Diet | Humans | Risk Factors | Thyroid Neoplasms - epidemiology | Sex Factors | Radiation Effects | Reproduction - physiology | Female | Male | Gene Rearrangement - genetics
risk factors | genetics | gender | molecular basis | disparity | papillary thyroid cancer | thyroid cancer | RISK-FACTORS | BRAF V600E MUTATION | RADIATION | ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR | POLISH POPULATION | ONCOLOGY | REPRODUCTIVE FACTORS | POOLED ANALYSIS | RET/PTC ACTIVATION | PAPILLARY | CARCINOMA | Thyroid Neoplasms - genetics | Gonadal Steroid Hormones - metabolism | Diet | Humans | Risk Factors | Thyroid Neoplasms - epidemiology | Sex Factors | Radiation Effects | Reproduction - physiology | Female | Male | Gene Rearrangement - genetics
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Social Science & Medicine, ISSN 0277-9536, 05/2019, Volume 228, pp. 126 - 134
Recent research reveals that, although girls encounter some barriers in school (e.g., in science and math), on balance, boys perform worse academically....
Disparities | Gender | Metabolic syndrome | Asthma | SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL | STEREOTYPE THREAT | SYMPTOMS | MATH | INCOME INEQUALITY | CHILDREN | ACHIEVEMENT | IMPACT | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | PHYSICAL HEALTH | TEACHERS | Medical research | Academic achievement | Asthma in children | Medicine, Experimental | Educational evaluation | Health aspects | Schools | Opposite sex relations | Health problems | Health research | Boys | Well being | Symptoms | Girls | Children & youth
Disparities | Gender | Metabolic syndrome | Asthma | SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL | STEREOTYPE THREAT | SYMPTOMS | MATH | INCOME INEQUALITY | CHILDREN | ACHIEVEMENT | IMPACT | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | PHYSICAL HEALTH | TEACHERS | Medical research | Academic achievement | Asthma in children | Medicine, Experimental | Educational evaluation | Health aspects | Schools | Opposite sex relations | Health problems | Health research | Boys | Well being | Symptoms | Girls | Children & youth
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Annals of Epidemiology, ISSN 1047-2797, 2012, Volume 22, Issue 10, pp. 698 - 704
Abstract Purpose Although eliminating health disparities by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES) is a top public health priority internationally and...
Internal Medicine | Measurement | Socioeconomic status | Inequalities | Children | Ethnic differences | Inequities | Adolescents | Weight | INFANT-DEATH-SYNDROME | PREVALENCE | SOCIAL INEQUALITIES | CHILDHOOD OVERWEIGHT | POSITION | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | BODY-MASS INDEX | GENDER | US CHILDREN | ASSOCIATION | Body Mass Index | Ethnic Groups - statistics & numerical data | United States - epidemiology | Age Distribution | Body Weight | Prevalence | Cross-Sectional Studies | Health Status Disparities | Humans | Obesity - ethnology | Child, Preschool | Male | Socioeconomic Factors | Regression Analysis | Adolescent | Sex Distribution | Female | Odds Ratio | Child | Youth | Teenagers | Obesity in children | Analysis
Internal Medicine | Measurement | Socioeconomic status | Inequalities | Children | Ethnic differences | Inequities | Adolescents | Weight | INFANT-DEATH-SYNDROME | PREVALENCE | SOCIAL INEQUALITIES | CHILDHOOD OVERWEIGHT | POSITION | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | BODY-MASS INDEX | GENDER | US CHILDREN | ASSOCIATION | Body Mass Index | Ethnic Groups - statistics & numerical data | United States - epidemiology | Age Distribution | Body Weight | Prevalence | Cross-Sectional Studies | Health Status Disparities | Humans | Obesity - ethnology | Child, Preschool | Male | Socioeconomic Factors | Regression Analysis | Adolescent | Sex Distribution | Female | Odds Ratio | Child | Youth | Teenagers | Obesity in children | Analysis
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Gender Disparity in Liver Cancer Due to Sex Differences in MyD88-Dependent IL-6 Production
Science, ISSN 0036-8075, 7/2007, Volume 317, Issue 5834, pp. 121 - 124
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common liver cancer, occurs mainly in men. Similar gender disparity is seen in mice given a chemical carcinogen,...
Liver cancer | Messenger RNA | Corn oil | Hepatocytes | Liver | Estrogens | Male animals | Hepatocellular carcinoma | Reports | Mice | Inflammation | HEPATOCELLULAR-CARCINOMA | RISK-FACTORS | INFLAMMATION | REGENERATION | CIRRHOSIS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | CHEMICAL HEPATOCARCINOGENESIS | MICE | NF-KAPPA-B | ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR | INNATE IMMUNITY | Liver - pathology | Liver Neoplasms, Experimental - chemically induced | Male | Liver Neoplasms, Experimental - immunology | RNA, Messenger - metabolism | Necrosis | Liver Neoplasms, Experimental - physiopathology | Interleukin-6 - blood | Diethylnitrosamine - administration & dosage | Female | Kupffer Cells - metabolism | Interleukin-6 - metabolism | Estradiol - pharmacology | Interleukin-6 - genetics | Ovariectomy | Carbon Tetrachloride - administration & dosage | Liver - metabolism | Mice, Inbred C57BL | RNA, Messenger - genetics | Sex Characteristics | Mice, Knockout | Animals | Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88 - physiology | Diethylnitrosamine - metabolism | Research | Demographic aspects | Interleukin-6 | Oncology | Gender differences | Liver diseases | Immunology | Carcinogens | Males | Secretions | Females | Ablation | Cancer
Liver cancer | Messenger RNA | Corn oil | Hepatocytes | Liver | Estrogens | Male animals | Hepatocellular carcinoma | Reports | Mice | Inflammation | HEPATOCELLULAR-CARCINOMA | RISK-FACTORS | INFLAMMATION | REGENERATION | CIRRHOSIS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | CHEMICAL HEPATOCARCINOGENESIS | MICE | NF-KAPPA-B | ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR | INNATE IMMUNITY | Liver - pathology | Liver Neoplasms, Experimental - chemically induced | Male | Liver Neoplasms, Experimental - immunology | RNA, Messenger - metabolism | Necrosis | Liver Neoplasms, Experimental - physiopathology | Interleukin-6 - blood | Diethylnitrosamine - administration & dosage | Female | Kupffer Cells - metabolism | Interleukin-6 - metabolism | Estradiol - pharmacology | Interleukin-6 - genetics | Ovariectomy | Carbon Tetrachloride - administration & dosage | Liver - metabolism | Mice, Inbred C57BL | RNA, Messenger - genetics | Sex Characteristics | Mice, Knockout | Animals | Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88 - physiology | Diethylnitrosamine - metabolism | Research | Demographic aspects | Interleukin-6 | Oncology | Gender differences | Liver diseases | Immunology | Carcinogens | Males | Secretions | Females | Ablation | Cancer
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2012, Latin American development forum series, ISBN 0821386867, xxviii, 323
After a sustained economic growth period at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one, Latin America still faces high inequality and lower...
Economic aspects | Discrimination | Ethnic relations | Sex discrimination against women | SOC028000 - SOCIAL SCIENCE | Womens Studies | Gender | Social Development | Gender-Ethnicity-Latin America-Caribbean-Labor-Earnings-Gaps-Disparities-Women-Afrodescendants and indigenous | Poverty Reduction | Latin America | Women | Indigenous | Ethinicity | Afrodescendants | Earnings | Gaps | Labor
Economic aspects | Discrimination | Ethnic relations | Sex discrimination against women | SOC028000 - SOCIAL SCIENCE | Womens Studies | Gender | Social Development | Gender-Ethnicity-Latin America-Caribbean-Labor-Earnings-Gaps-Disparities-Women-Afrodescendants and indigenous | Poverty Reduction | Latin America | Women | Indigenous | Ethinicity | Afrodescendants | Earnings | Gaps | Labor
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Diabetes Care, ISSN 0149-5992, 10/2013, Volume 36, Issue 10, pp. 3162 - 3168
OBJECTIVETo investigate the quality of type 2 diabetes care according to sex.RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODSClinical data collected during the year 2009 were...
GLOMERULAR-FILTRATION-RATE | WOMEN | DISEASE RISK | GENDER DISPARITIES | EVENTS | CORONARY | ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM | OUTPATIENT CLINICS | TYPE-2 | OF-CARE | CARDIOVASCULAR RISK-FACTORS | Cross-Sectional Studies | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - blood | Sex Factors | Triglycerides - blood | Cholesterol, HDL - blood | Cholesterol, LDL - blood | Female | Aged | Blood Pressure - physiology | Disease Management | Clinics | Analysis | Patient outcomes | Diabetes | Evidence-based medicine | Cholesterol | Diabetes therapy | Antilipemic agents | Original Research
GLOMERULAR-FILTRATION-RATE | WOMEN | DISEASE RISK | GENDER DISPARITIES | EVENTS | CORONARY | ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM | OUTPATIENT CLINICS | TYPE-2 | OF-CARE | CARDIOVASCULAR RISK-FACTORS | Cross-Sectional Studies | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - blood | Sex Factors | Triglycerides - blood | Cholesterol, HDL - blood | Cholesterol, LDL - blood | Female | Aged | Blood Pressure - physiology | Disease Management | Clinics | Analysis | Patient outcomes | Diabetes | Evidence-based medicine | Cholesterol | Diabetes therapy | Antilipemic agents | Original Research
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2010, Africa Development Forum, ISBN 0821380702, xxviii, 420
Women's earnings are a fraction of male's earnings in several African countries. It is tempting to conclude that this wage gap is a sign of discrimination...
Labor market | Sex discrimination in employment | Sexual division of labor | Africa | LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES | GENDER DISPARITIES | IMPROVEMENT OF DATA COLLECTION | HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS | POLICY DESIGN
Labor market | Sex discrimination in employment | Sexual division of labor | Africa | LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES | GENDER DISPARITIES | IMPROVEMENT OF DATA COLLECTION | HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS | POLICY DESIGN
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Cancer Letters, ISSN 0304-3835, 12/2019, Volume 466, pp. 35 - 38
Sex is a key biological factor affecting the development of many cancer types. There are considerable differences between male and female subpopulations in...
Cancer incidence | Metabolism | Repair | Immune | DNA damage | BLADDER-CANCER | ASSOCIATIONS | SUSCEPTIBILITY | RISK | SMOKING | GENE POLYMORPHISMS | SULT1A1 | LUNG-CANCER | ONCOLOGY | GENDER | Subpopulations | Lung cancer | Industrialized nations | Mortality | Sex | Colorectal cancer | Bladder | Gender differences | Males | Patients | Epidemiology | Liver cancer | Thyroid cancer | Medical prognosis | Conflicts of interest | Larynx | Health risk assessment | Females | Esophageal cancer | Cancer | Tumors
Cancer incidence | Metabolism | Repair | Immune | DNA damage | BLADDER-CANCER | ASSOCIATIONS | SUSCEPTIBILITY | RISK | SMOKING | GENE POLYMORPHISMS | SULT1A1 | LUNG-CANCER | ONCOLOGY | GENDER | Subpopulations | Lung cancer | Industrialized nations | Mortality | Sex | Colorectal cancer | Bladder | Gender differences | Males | Patients | Epidemiology | Liver cancer | Thyroid cancer | Medical prognosis | Conflicts of interest | Larynx | Health risk assessment | Females | Esophageal cancer | Cancer | Tumors
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American Journal of Neuroradiology, ISSN 0195-6108, 01/2018, Volume 39, Issue 1, pp. 18 - 23
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: There has been extensive interest in promoting gender equality within radiology, a predominately male field. In this study, our aim was...
WOMEN | ROLE-MODELS | SUCCESS | PRODUCTIVITY | MEDICINE | NEUROIMAGING | RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | Productivity | Neuroimaging | Leadership | Medical imaging | Gender | Criteria | Studies | Scientific papers | Neurology | Hirsch index | Documents | Radiology | On-line programming | College faculty
WOMEN | ROLE-MODELS | SUCCESS | PRODUCTIVITY | MEDICINE | NEUROIMAGING | RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | Productivity | Neuroimaging | Leadership | Medical imaging | Gender | Criteria | Studies | Scientific papers | Neurology | Hirsch index | Documents | Radiology | On-line programming | College faculty
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Small Business Economics, ISSN 0921-898X, 06/2018, Volume 51, Issue 1, pp. 31 - 55
This study uses unique hand-collected data from a televised entrepreneurial pitch competition to examine gender differences in obtaining angel financing....
Angel financing | Women entrepreneurs | Start-up capital | ENTREPRENEURS | SUCCESS | MANAGEMENT | BACKLASH | BUSINESS | PRIVATE EQUITY | VENTURES | INVESTORS | GROWTH | WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS | ECONOMICS | SELF-PROMOTION | INVESTMENTS | New business enterprises | Businesswomen | Management | Capital expenditures | Finance | Startups | Gender differences | Entrepreneurial finance | Angel investors | Investments | Entrepreneurship
Angel financing | Women entrepreneurs | Start-up capital | ENTREPRENEURS | SUCCESS | MANAGEMENT | BACKLASH | BUSINESS | PRIVATE EQUITY | VENTURES | INVESTORS | GROWTH | WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS | ECONOMICS | SELF-PROMOTION | INVESTMENTS | New business enterprises | Businesswomen | Management | Capital expenditures | Finance | Startups | Gender differences | Entrepreneurial finance | Angel investors | Investments | Entrepreneurship
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