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Nutrition & Dietetics
Monika M. Stojek, Justyna Lipka, Jessica M. Maples-Keller, Sheila A. M. Rauch, Kathryn Black, Vasiliki Michopoulos, Barbara O. Rothbaum
Summary: This study found no sex differences in the rates of positive FA status in individuals with threshold/subthreshold PTSD, and FA may be associated with disordered eating, severity of PTSD, and depression symptoms.
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Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Jose E. Rubio, Junfei Tong, Aravind Sundaramurthy, Adhitya V. Subramani, Vivek Bhaskar Kote, Michael Baggaley, W. Brent Edwards, Jaques Reifman
Summary: During U.S. Army basic combat training, women are more prone to lower-extremity musculoskeletal injuries, including stress fracture of the tibia, with higher injury rates compared to men. This is partly due to sex-specific differences in running biomechanics, particularly when running with external load. A study found that women have a greater risk of tibial stress fracture compared to men as load increases, indicating their higher susceptibility to injuries. These findings support the need for more personalized training and testing that takes into account sex and individual differences.
FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2023)
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Genetics & Heredity
Omar Ibrahim, Heidi G. Sutherland, Rodney A. Lea, Fatima Nasrallah, Neven Maksemous, Robert A. Smith, Larisa M. Haupt, Lyn R. Griffiths
Summary: The study utilized machine learning and genomic data to explore outcomes of head trauma, identifying signatures that accurately distinguish test groups and showcasing the potential of predicting severe or prolonged responses from healthy recovery using these methods.
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE-JMM
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Nathan W. Churchill, Michael G. Hutchison, Simon J. Graham, Tom A. Schweizer
Summary: This study found significant sex differences in brain recovery after concussion, with males showing greater reductions in occipital-parietal blood flow and increases in callosal mean diffusivity, while females had greater reductions in corona radiata fractional anisotropy. These findings provide new insights into how the brain recovers after a concussion, showing sex differences in both the acute and chronic phases of injury.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2021)
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Endocrinology & Metabolism
Cathy Degroote, Britta Renner, Julia Wickl, Anika Leven, Petra H. Wirtz
Summary: This study investigated the endocrine mechanisms underlying eating behaviors after acute psychosocial stress and found potential sex differences. Lower immediate total cortisol stress reactivity was associated with higher hunger, particularly in women. Women ate less after stress and had consistently lower levels of hunger and cortisol compared to men. In addition, women's cholecystokinin (CCK) levels were not reactive to acute stress and eating, while men's CCK levels showed a reactive increase. These findings suggest a higher risk for stress-induced eating in women.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM
(2023)
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Infectious Diseases
Kelly J. Thompson, Simon R. Finfer, Mark Woodward, Robert Neil F. Leong, Bette Liu
Summary: A prospective cohort study in Australia found that compared to women, men have a higher risk of hospitalisation due to sepsis, sepsis-related ICU admission, death, and readmission within one year after a sepsis hospitalisation.
JOURNAL OF INFECTION
(2022)
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Immunology
Yutaka Kondo, Atsushi Miyazato, Ken Okamoto, Hiroshi Tanaka
Summary: This study found that female patients with sepsis after trauma had significantly lower in-hospital mortality rates than male patients. This difference in mortality risk remained consistent even when analyzing subgroups, including elderly populations aged 65 and older.
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
(2021)
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Clinical Neurology
Brian H. Rowe, Esther H. Yang, Lindsay A. Gaudet, Leeor Eliyahu, Daniela R. Junqueira, Jeremy Beach, Martin Mrazik, Garnet Cummings, Donald Voaklander
Summary: This study compared male and female patients with concussion and found that female patients had more severe and prolonged symptoms during their visit to the emergency department. The study also revealed that women, patients with a history of sleep disorders, and those who presented with concussions after a motor vehicle collision were more likely to experience persistent symptoms.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY
(2022)
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Critical Care Medicine
Sharven Taghavi, Danielle Tatum, Tara Reza, Alison Smith, Patrick McGrew, Charles Harris, Chrissy Guidry, Rebecca Schroll, Juan Duchesne
Summary: Recent studies have found that the hypercoagulable state in females does not result in a survival advantage in massively transfused trauma patients. Female and male trauma patients under massive transfusion protocol (MTP) had similar outcomes in terms of mortality, complications, and hospital stay.
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Neurosciences
Daniel M. M. Johnstone, John Mitrofanis, Jonathan Stone
Summary: The brain, although well protected, can still suffer long-term damage from head trauma experienced in young adult life, leading to dementia appearing decades later. This damage is seen in individuals who have engaged in body-contact sports or survived accidents or combat blasts. These different forms of dementia share common clinical and neuropathological features, and the weak point of the brain in the face of trauma is identified as the capillary bed. Understanding this allows for discussion and exploration of methods to delay, prevent, and treat trauma-induced degenerative diseases.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sowmya Chary, Karin Amrein, Jessica A. Lasky-Su, Harald Dobnig, Kenneth B. Christopher
Summary: Our study found robust and coordinated sex-specific metabolite differences in early critical illness, with women showing significantly different changes in metabolites compared to men.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Andrew Post, Clara Karton, Odette Thevenot, T. Blaine Hoshizaki, Michael Robidoux, Michael D. Gilchrist
Summary: The study found that in Peewee ice hockey games, boys are more prone to head impacts than girls, with differences in the sources and severity of impacts.
COMPUTER METHODS IN BIOMECHANICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
(2021)
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Clinical Neurology
Marie Coenjaerts, Frederike Pape, Virginia Santoso, Franziska Grau, Birgit Stoffel-Wagner, Alexandra Philipsen, Johannes Schultz, Rene Hurlemann, Dirk Scheele
Summary: The study found that women are more sensitive to fairness frames compared to men, and estradiol has sex-specific effects on fairness sensitivity. Moreover, the mere belief of receiving estradiol treatment significantly increased the acceptance of unfair-framed offers in both sexes.
EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2021)
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Immunology
Jenni M. Wise, Elizabeth A. Jackson, Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Gabriela R. Oates, Zhixin Wang, Edgar T. Overton, Mohammed Siddiqui, Mark Woodward, Robert S. Rosenson, Paul Muntner
Summary: The protective advantage of female sex against ASCVD is diminished among women with HIV, highlighting the need for earlier and more intensive treatment strategies to reduce sex-based disparities.
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Neurosciences
Chenyu Pang, Wenxin Li, Yuqing Zhou, Tianyu Gao, Shihui Han
Summary: This study aimed to investigate whether women are more empathetic than men. Using large-sample questionnaires and EEG measures, the study found that women had higher scores in empathic ability based on subjective measures, but no gender difference was observed in the EEG measures. The study also found that social expectations influenced the gender difference in questionnaire measures. These findings challenge the notion of women's superiority in empathy.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)