sex and gender differences in pulmonary diseases

... falls in community-dwelling older people Age Ageing 2008, 37:430-435 Cao C, Schultz AB, Ashton-Miller JA, Alexander NB: Sudden turns and stops while walking: kinematic sources of age and gender differences ... communityliving older population and thus presented with a range of pathologies The study findings revealed significant age-related differences in all seven functional mobility tests examined These findings ... Age-associated differences in sensori-motor function and balance in community dwelling women Age Ageing 1994, 23:452-460 Berg KO, Wood-Dauphinee SL, Williams JI, Maki B: Measuring balance in the elderly:...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... health maintenance/physical fitness and both internalizing (p = 0.000) and externalizing syndrome (p = 0.000) Decision making/problem solving and total life skills scores were both inversely ... syndromes and, unlike young men, total life skills inversely correlated with both internalizing and externalizing syndromes The complex associations and the dissimilarities among the genders in relation ... When analysed by gender, the health maintenance/ physical fitness dimension inverse-correlated with both internalizing syndrome (p = 0.021) and externalizing syndrome (p = 0.000) in young men The...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... (2003) “Are sex ratios at birth increasinh in Vietnam?” Population, Vol 58, No 2, pp: 321 – 334 VOLKMANN C.S (2005) “30 years after the war: Children, Families, and Rights in Vietnam” International ... cho thấy sinh so với năm 1989, khoảng cách lần sinh dài song nhiều phụ nữ sinh độ tuổi sớm Ở TĐT 2009, mức sinh thấp, đỉnh cao rơi vào nhóm tuổi 25-29, chứng tỏ phụ nữ kết hôn muộn hơn, sinh khoảng ... sinh sản thể mức sinh dân số Nó đƣợc biểu diễn thƣớc đo Tổng tỷ suất sinh (TFR) Kết từ Tổng điều tra dân số qua năm cho thấy, mức sinh phụ nữ Việt Nam giảm mạnh chí xuống thấp ngƣỡng “mức sinh...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2016, 15:32

... health information, medicines and health financing; >> human rights concepts and a HRBA to programming and gender mainstreaming, ideally in the area of health Annex contains key readings and resource ... and gender mainstreaming share norms and standards of international human rights treaties and instruments, and other international agreements, such as the Millennium Declaration and the Beijing ... health system and ensuring that health systems functions such as health information, health financing, and leadership and governance (including policy-making) create sustainable, enabling environments...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 13:20

... Kantrowitz ER (1993) Conversion of a magnesium binding site into a zinc binding site by a single amino acid substitution in Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase J Biol Chem 268, 21497–21500 44 ... coordinator at the M3 site of rIAP-I Catalytic differences in metal preferences between rIAPs and hPLAP may reflect the subtle coordination of amino acids constructing the M3 space No differences in ... human foetal intestinal alkaline phosphatase Comparison with the isoenzymes from the adult intestine and human tumour cell lines Biochem J 211, 553–558 36 Smans KA, Ingvarsson MB, Lindgren P, Canevari...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... chain in different ways, and often at different times and places.’ In summary, integrating SAGA into research is important in developing a better understanding and awareness of the social and ... networking and information exchange among researchers interested in integrating SAGA into natural resource management research; to build capacity within institutions to mainstream gender in project ... issues; writing studies/stories; and planning KEY COMMON ISSUES In reviewing individual case studies and synthesizing the most striking things and the missing or underemphasized elements, nine common...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 04:20

... to drug testing and clinical trials (see bibliography) We did not ‘ Clinical drug rrials involve ksting a new drug in humans to determine whether it has thcrapcutic hcmcfit in fighting disrase ... included in clinical trials to detect gender- related differences in drug response An industry survey showed that drug manufacturers are uncertain as to what FDA expects with regard to including ... trial data by gender to determine differences between men and women in evaluating the safety of new drugs Drug manufacturers examined the interaction of endogenous and exogenous hormones in women...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 12:20

... blots washed and incubated with diaminobenzidine and hydrogen peroxide A combination of the biotinylated lectins Sambucus nigra agglutinin (SNA; 10 lgặmL)1) and Maackia amurensis agglutinin (MAA; ... represented by bands which were much larger and more intense than those for dimeric tryptase There was in all cases a corresponding reduction in band size and staining intensity with increasing degree ... left- and righthand sides of the ring in Fig 10A [23] This region is comprised of ve histidines, nine lysines, and four arginines in each subunit The pH prole data suggest that as the pH increases,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... For both sexes being paid in kind and not being paid is more predominant in rural areas than urban areas There also existed an inverse relation between education attainment and inkind earnings21 ... Assessment (PSIA) Training, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Nile Resort Jinja, Uganda 27 Rugadya Margaret, 2004 Gender and the Land Reform Process in Uganda, Associates for ... having the multiple income sources Professional skills included: possessing improved farming techniques, building and carpentry training, traditional medicine skills and basic arithmetic and...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:22

... by women’s opinion, and the role of harshness and violence in controlling women’s behavior [18] Violence against women in Rwanda seems to have been enshrined in traditional sayings and buttressed ... Chapel Hill, NC: IntraHealth International; 2008 Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion, International Rescue Committee: A Determination of Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Rwanda 2004 Crepeau ... the elimination of sexual harassment and other forms of gender discrimination will figure in Rwanda’s new (2010) draft of the national GBV policy Conclusions Gender discrimination and inequality...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... at least in part, and care should be taken when interpreting the clinical implications Posterior tilting of the trunk (Tilt (G) graph in Figure 1) begins with the initiation of the single limb ... normalized walking speed and BMI Therefore, after excluding the confounding effect of the normalized walking speed and body size, the most prominent gender difference in the kinematic data of ... confounding effect of the different normalized walking speed and BMI between genders The mean tilt (G) appeared to be influenced significantly by gender after eliminating the confounding effect...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... Caldwell DS, Stainbrook D, Hackshaw KV, Fox LC, Wilson K: Gender differences in pain, coping, and mood in individuals having osteoarthritic knee pain: a within-day analysis Pain 2004, 110:571-577 ... Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio and The Children's Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio between 1997–2001 Patients and their families were invited to participate in ... of Life by Domain and Gender Health-Related Quality of Life by Domain and Gender Health scores ranging from 0–100 are shown on the Yaxis and domains on the X-axis The asterix (*) indicates pvalue...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... same in both genders: the SDS-H and SDS-C accounted for 55.9% of the explained variance in women and for 52.9% in the model for men These findings are in accordance with results observed in an ... of heroin and cocaine dependence (SDS-H and SDS-C) and having experienced an opiate overdose in the last 12 months; and while it was worse in those men that had visited a psychiatrist in the ... fulfilment of inclusion criteria, candidates were informed about the objectives and procedures of the study, including incentives for participation (18 Euro per interview completed) and signed an informed...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... manuscript and helped in the interpretation of the results PS critically revised the article and helped in data analysis and interpretation of results DD and VM helped in the design of the study and interpretation ... component including the love items (6, 9, 12), the second component including happiness items (2, 3, 11), the third component including the sadness items (1, 4, 14), and the fourth component including ... showing strong loadings: (a) love items 6, 9, 12 with factor loadings ranging from 0.73 to 0.83 and Mload = 0.80 and (b) happiness items 2, 3, 11 with loadings ranging from 0.63 to 0.78 and Mload =...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... better health, addiction treatment and mental health care, distributing condoms and needles, preventing violence and coordinating services as inmates move back into the community [12] The most ... policy in particular 14 Competing interests 15 The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests 16 Authors' contributions RSH, SB, ED, and SAS initiated the study RSH and EFD collected and ... life and the corresponding life expectancy in each state for each age group Total life expectancy at birth or any other age group by race and gender was the sum of life expectancy in the prison and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... PDZ binding motif that may represent a virulence determinant PDZ domains are protein-interacting domains that are involved in a variety of cell signalling pathways In addition, Obenauer and colleagues ... mucosa, and trachea The chicken/49 and mink/84 virus have also been shown to differ in their ability to induce interferon (IFN) production in mink lung cells [8-10] In an effort to better understand ... avian influenza viruses The H10 viruses have histidine (H), glutamate (E) and glutamine (Q) at amino acid positions 177, 184, and 216, respectively, in H10 numbering at the receptor-binding site...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... have no competing interests Authors' contributions JW participated in the study design, supervising experiments, data analysis and manuscript drafting XK and JS participated in performing the experiments, ... collection and analysis XZ, KB and MO participated in data analysis and MS drafting BB and RH provided the study subject samples and data collection, finance support TD participated in statistic ... German: 75; and Italian: 73 and Americans found by others and in the present study HLA-A*11, B*57 are protective and Cw*04 confers risk to HCV infection in both American Caucasians and African...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... the prodomain maintaining the catalytic site inactive and the metalloproteinase domain containing the Zinc binding site ADAM activation mechanisms are mostly similar to MMP's activation and generally ... metalloproteinase domain with its catalytic consensus site is active in only about half of ADAM proteinases The following domains are characteristic of ADAMs and include a disintegrin domain mediating ... cell-matrix interactions via the interaction with integrins; a cystein-rich domain implicated in cell adhesion; an epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like domain and a cytoplasmic tail involved in various intracellular...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... children with pulmonary hypertension and Eisenmenger's syndrome [20] Similarly in adults with IPAH, the inhalation of beta-2-agonist lead to an increase in FEV1 and MEF50 [19] Interestingly in the latter ... Arthritis and Rheumatism 2001, 44:S266 Landgraf RG, Jancar S: Endothelin A receptor antagonist modulates lymphocyte and eosinophil infiltration, hyperreactivity and mucus in murine asthma Int Immunopharmacol ... drafted and revised the manuscript FJM conceived, coordinated and designed the study, acquired and interpreted the data, and drafted and revised the manuscript HAK interpreted the data and drafted...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... HIF-1 Hexokinase-1 HIF-1 Hexokinase-2 HIF-1 Insulin-like growth factor-2 (IGF-2) HIF-1 IGF-binding protein-1 HIF-1 IGF-binding protein-2 HIF-1 IGF-binding protein-3 HIF-1 Interleukin-6 NF-IL6 ... hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension J Clin Invest 1995, 96:1823–1833 23 Morrell NW, Morris KG, Stenmark KR: Role of angiotensin-converting enzyme and angiotensin II in development of hypoxic pulmonary ... subunits in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells J Clin Invest 1997, 100:2347–2353 Author’s affiliation: Institute of Genetic Medicine and Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, The Johns Hopkins...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20