Age and gender features of clinical course COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-9
Author(s):  
OM Kovalyova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Gender Features

The article presents the review of modern publications devoted the assessment the impact of age and gender on susceptibility, clinical manifestation and outcome of COVID-19 infection. Statistical data on rate of COVID-19 in relation to age categories and adverse clinical signs of disease in different populations are shown. Old and older ages are the predictors of severe coronavirus course and mortality are emphasized. Gender features of coronavirus infection have been described according to gender cardiology with taken in account the disproportion of hypertension and coronary heart disease in male and female. Due to the scientific research the gender and age peculiarities of immune response to virus infection is considered. The definition of hypothesis “immunosenescence” underlying adverse outcome due to COVID-19 in older patients is taken. Gender peculiarities of COVID-19 are presented by evident scientific data according to the relationship between sex hormone and immune inflammation factors

scholarly journals No Self Without Salience: Affective and Self-relevance Ratings of 552 Emotionally Valenced and Neutral Dutch Words

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lora I. Dimitrova ◽  
Eline M. Vissia ◽  
Hanneke Geugies ◽  
Hedwig Hofstetter ◽  
Sima Chalavi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Emotional Salience ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractIt is unknown how self-relevance is dependent on emotional salience. Emotional salience encompasses an individual's degree of attraction or aversion to emotionally-valenced information. The current study investigated the interconnection between self and salience through the evaluation of emotional valence and self-relevance. 56 native Dutch participants completed a questionnaire assessing valence, intensity, and self-relevance of 552 Dutch nouns and verbs. One-way repeated-measures ANCOVA investigated the relationship between valence and self, age and gender. Repeated-measures ANCOVA also tested the relationship between valence and self with intensity ratings and effects of gender and age. Results showed a significant main effect of valence for self-relevant words. Intensity analyses showed a main effect of valence but not of self-relevance. There were no significant effects of gender and age. The most important finding presents that self-relevance is dependent on valence. These findings concerning the relationship between self and salience opens avenues to study an individual's self-definition.

scholarly journals Investigating the impact of social sustainability within maintenance operations

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo M. Savino ◽  
Marco Macchi ◽  
Antonio Mazza
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Age Factors ◽  
Maintenance Policy ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Maintenance Policies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Criticality Analysis

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to primarily focus on labor in maintenance areas, addressing human rights issues, labor standards and safety standards. The main issue is to investigate how these factors are considered to drive the prioritization of maintenance interventions within maintenance plans. In particular, a method for criticality analysis of production equipment is proposed considering specific labor issues like age and gender, which can be useful to steer maintenance plans toward a more social perspective. Design/methodology/approach – The authors focus on the two main social issues of SA 8000 norms, age and gender, exploring how these issues may drive the selection of maintenance policies and the relative maintenance plans. The research is conducted through fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (AHP) implemented within a failure mode effects analysis (FMEA). Findings – The research is conducted through fuzzy AHP implemented within a FMEA. The maintenance plans resulting from the FMEA driven by social issues are evaluated by a benchmark of three different scenarios. The results obtained allowed the firm to evaluate maintenance plans, considering the impact on workers’ health and safety, the environment, social issues like gender and age. Research limitations/implications – One of the main limitation of this research is that it should also encompass maintenance costs under social and safety perspective. The method developed should be extended by further study of maintenance planning decisions subject to budget constraints. Moreover, it would be worth evaluating the effect of adopting more proactive maintenance policies aimed at improving plant maintainability in view of what emerged during the test case in the presence of an aged workforce and the subsequent need to prevent and/or protect people from hidden risks. Practical implications – With reference to the results obtained from the two models of this scenario, the authors observed an increase of equipment criticality, from B class to the A class, and similarly from C class to B class. No equipment has reduced its criticality. This depends on the particular context and the relative weights of drivers indicated in its AHP matrixes. Social implications – The paper addressed the main social implication as well as other social issues represented by age and gender factors, which are normally neglected. The Action Research (AR) proved the effects resulted from considering either gender factor or gender and age factors at the same time for maintenance policy selection. All in all, an increase of criticality is evident even if “people” is a driver with less importance than “environment” and “structures.” Originality/value – The present work focussed on a new definition of a criticality ranking model to assign a maintenance policy to each component based on workers’ know-how and on their status. The approach is conceived by the application of a fuzzy logic structure and AHP to overcome uncertainties, which can rise during a decision process when there is a need to evaluate many criteria, ranging from economic to environmental and social dimensions.

scholarly journals Nuancing Holistic Simplicity in Sweden: A Statistical Exploration of Consumption, Age and Gender

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8340
Author(s):  
Marco Eimermann ◽  
Urban Lindgren ◽  
Linda Lundmark
Keyword(s):  
Register Data ◽  
Voluntary Simplicity ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Partially Observable ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
Made In

Studies of sustainable ways of life have hitherto made limited use of register data since, e.g., voluntary simplicity is usually identified through characteristics that cannot be found in data registers. Despite this, claims about these trends have been made in many countries, at times generalising the phenomena both in academia and media, based on anecdotal examples. This article draws on a quantifiable definition of holistic simplicity (Etzioni 1998) that includes certain fully measurable aspects, such as living in more affluent suburbs, moving to less affluent places and a significant reduction in individual work income. Other aspects are partially observable in register data, such as housing and car consumption. The advantage of this study is that it combines relevant theories around voluntary simplicity with register data that capture important characteristics of the entire national population (in this case, in Sweden) and thus, to some extent, also captures the magnitude of the phenomena. The article aims to statistically explore different demographic groups’ probability of becoming holistic simplifiers in Sweden, regarding their consumption, gender and age. It discusses opportunities and limitations for advancing our knowledge on voluntary simplicity in Sweden, with current findings suggesting more of the same consumption patterns and only initial paths to degrowth. This is discussed in the context of individuals’ agency in a state such as Sweden, which is changing from collectivist social democratic values to more neo-liberal conditions.

Do we need to consider age and gender for accurate diagnosis of myocardial infarction?

Diagnosis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 175-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Mueller-Hennessen ◽  
Evangelos Giannitsis
Keyword(s):  
Myocardial Infarction ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Healthy Population ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Therapeutic Consequences ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Universal Definition ◽  
Almost All

AbstractAccording to the universal definition, a diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) can be made in the presence of a kinetic change of cardiac troponin (cTn) with at least one value above the 99th percentile of a healthy population together with clinical signs of myocardial ischemia. Thus, differences in 99th percentile cut-off values may have important diagnostic and therapeutic consequences for the correct AMI diagnosis. Following the introduction of high-sensitivity (hs) cTn assays with the ability to detect cTn in virtually every healthy individual, almost all available hs Tn assays suggest to use solitary 99th percentile cut-offs. However, several findings have questioned the use of a solitary cut-off for AMI diagnosis, as apparent age- and gender-dependent differences were found concerning the 99th percentile cut-off value. Moreover, there is an increasing number of studies which suggest a relevant diagnostic and prognostic benefit, when age- or gender-specific cut-offs values are used in comparison to general cut-offs. In contrast, other studies observed only a small impact on diagnostic reclassification and risk stratification. Given these ambiguous findings, there is currently no clear evidence for the use of age- and/or gender-dependent 99th percentiles. This review gives an overview of the rationale for gender- and age-dependent differences in cTn biomarker findings and discusses the implementation of these findings into clinical practice.

scholarly journals Impact of Age, Gender and Job Satisfaction on Employee Engagement in the IT sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 4841-4845
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Null Hypothesis ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

The present analysis has been conducted to understand the influence of job satisfaction, gender and age on the employee engagement levels in the Information and Technology sector. 196 bona fide questionnaire responses were received from two Information Technology (IT) firms in Odisha, India to perceive the impact of factors like job satisfaction, age and gender on the work commitment levels of employees. Correlation analysis was done to unravel the interrelationship linking gender, age and job satisfaction. The findings indicated that there was no effect of gender or age on the engagement of employees in the IT sector. Gender and age were independent of each other but influenced the Job satisfaction of the employees in the IT area. The goodness of fit was calculated for the dataset by doing the chi square test. Based on the values, for the first and the second hypothesis the null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative was selected. For the third hypothesis the null hypothesis was accepted. This showed that age and gender do not have a major impact on engagement in IT employees. But job satisfaction has a positive association with employee engagement. Regression analysis was also carried out to check the relationship between age and gender which are the independent variables with job satisfaction which is dependent. It was concluded that there is a 50% association between the independent and dependent variables. Thus organizations should make sure that the work culture is a healthy mix of the right elements so that a diverse taskforce is always driven to work and shares mutual goals with the organization.

scholarly journals TEMPERAMENT AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL DETERMINANT OF EATING BEHAVIOR

2018 ◽  
pp. 153-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. A. Proskuryakova ◽  
E. N. Lobykina
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Eating Behavior ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Gender Characteristics ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Rational Type ◽  
Restrictive Type

In the article, temperament is considered as a psychological and psychophysiological determinant of eating disorders. The results of the relationship between the temperament type and eating behavior in the adult population (150 people) are presented according to gender and age characteristics. Only 12 % of respondents have a rational type of eating behavior. The sample was 33.3 % of respondents with melonchal temperament, 28.7 % – phlegmatic, 20 % sanguine and 18 % choleric, respectively. It is established that women-melancholiacs are more likely to develop an emotiogenic type of eating disorders, and men-melancholiacs are of a restrictive type. Emotiogenic type of eating behavior occurs in representatives of all types of temperament, but in different periods of ontogenesis: sanguine and choleric patients under 29 years old; melancholics at the age of 30 and older; phlegmaticians since 50 years of age, respectively. The external type of eating behavior is most characteristic for choleric persons under the age of 29. The results showed that temperament is indeed a factor in eating disorders and depends on age and gender characteristics.

AGE AND GENDER FEATURES OF FORMATION SOMATIC PATHOLOGIES AT INFLUENCE OF NOISE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.A. Roslaya ◽  
◽  
E.L. Bazarova ◽  
I.S. Osherov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Metallurgical Enterprise ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Industrial Noise ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Influence Of Noise ◽  
Gender Features

Abstract: Relevance. Noise is the most common harmful factor in the production of titanium alloys. The aim of the study is to identify age and gender features of the formation of general somatic morbidity associated with the impact of industrial noise at a large metallurgical enterprise. Scope and methods. The study compared the prevalence of chronic pathology of 4681 people who have contact with noise above 80 dBA, and those who are not exposed to noise using the methodology of occupational risk analysis of the Research Institute of Occupational Medicine. academician N. F. Izmerov according to the results of a periodic medical examination The results. The formation of general somatic pathology of many systems of the body under the influence of industrial noise occurs from the first years of operation. An increased risk of developing ear pathology was identified with work experience of more than 7 years. Men under the influence of noise had a significantly higher prevalence of diseases of the ear and digestive organs than women, with higher risks compared to those who were not exposed to noise and a medium to high relationship with working conditions. Conclusion. The revealed features of the formation of general somatic pathology under the influence of industrial noise allow us to recommend the introduction of health and rehabilitation programs from the first years of working in noise, even during the period of adaptation of young workers to the production environment.

scholarly journals The relationship between vitamin D deficiency and oxidative stress can be independent of age and gender

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Barros Câmara ◽  
Igor Augusto Brandão
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Lipid Peroxidation ◽  
Vitamin D ◽  
Vitamin D Deficiency ◽  
Protein Oxidation ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Oxidative Stress

Abstract. The active vitamin D (1,25(OH)2D) acts through a nuclear receptor to perform several functions in cellular metabolism. 1,25(OH)2D participates directly in calcium homeostasis, regulates the immune system, nervous system, blood pressure, insulin secretion, among others. Vitamin D deficiency could also be associated with several diseases and increased cellular oxidative damage. The present study aimed to investigate whether lipid peroxidation and/or protein oxidation are affected by vitamin D deficiency and whether sunlight exposure/diet, gender, and age might influence this relationship. Vitamin D concentrations were obtained from the Heart Hospital database and a questionnaire was applied among the 212 participants. We used the inactive vitamin D (25(OH)2) in the analyses since 1,25(OH)2D has a short half-life and a low blood concentration. Lipid peroxidation and protein oxidation analyses were performed using spectrophotometry. Multivariate analyses suggested the participation of vitamin D deficiency (<30 ng/mL) and sunlight/diet in oxidative stress (p <0.05; R2 MDA: 0.562; R2 CG: 0.429). Multiple linear regression test show that the age and gender of patients are not interfering in the analyses (p>0.05). Therefore, we suggest that the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and oxidative stress can be independent of age and gender.

scholarly journals - The factors affecting the evaluation and selection of hotels - An analytical study of a field a sample of tourists visiting the State of Djelfa - Algeria: العوامل التي تؤثر في تقييم واختيار الفنادق - دراسة ميدانية تحليلية لعينة من السياح الذين يقصدون ولاية الجلفة- الجزائر-

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiba Ali Toual, Siham Salem Mahamdi
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
The State ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Social ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

This research aims to study the impact of a range of factors on the evaluation and selection of hotels, for that we’ve conducted a study based on the descriptive analytical approach, where 100 questionnaires were distributed to a random sample of tourists visiting the state of Djelfa- Algeria. The study found that the evaluation and selection of the hotel within the sample members is influenced by the range of factors covered by the study (the purpose of the visit, the definition of value by the visitor, the social and economic factors, age and gender, race or religion). Depending on the correlation coefficient value (R 0.885), the relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable was strong, and the independent variable explains 77.2%of the dependent variable. Finally, the study has presented a set of recommendations, which conclude in:- Renovation and development of the interior design of hotels;- Annual training programs including the hotel staff and this is to learn about new trends in the hotel’s industry.

scholarly journals The Impact of Facebookers’ Posts on Other Users’ Attitudes According to Their Age and Gender: Evidence from Al Ain University of Science and Technology

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh ◽  
Sulafah Abdul Salam Alnamer
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Al Ain ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

This study aims at exploring the reasons that drive many Facebookers to share negative posts on Facebook, with a special focus on their gender and age. It also aims at identifying the negative attitudes and feelings that negative Facebook posts might evoke in Facebookers. Thus, a mixed-methods approach was adopted employing both a five-point agreement Likert scale questionnaire and semi-structured interviews which were conducted with 40 participants. Based on the participants’ responses, the results show that many Facebookers write posts to satisfy different needs including receiving compliments and attention, sharing daily updates, showing off, and deliberately teasing others, all of which have been found to trigger feelings of jealousy, hatred, annoyance, demotivation, inferiority, and sadness. The study concludes with recommendations for further research.

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