scholarly journals Analysis of the risk factors in SARS-CoV-2: gender and age

Author(s):  
A. A. Sanghai ◽  
Vikram Khan ◽  
D. B. Zala ◽  
V. K. Das

Age and gender are key indicators of health to understand the extent to which outbreaks affect a specific age group or gender. Therefore, the present study was conducted to know whether gender equality in SARS-CoV-2 infections prevails across different age groups in the Dadra and Nagar Haveli district of the UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, India. The secondary data were collected up to 21st September 2020 through public health surveillance activities undertaken by, Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, UT of the Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman Diu. Till date, a total of 37.89 thousand samples were tested for detection of SARS-CoV-2. Only 1429 (3.76%) samples were found positive for SARS-CoV-2. Out of total positive cases, 71.38% were male and 28.62 % were female. The maximum case was encountered in the working-age group (between 19 to 50 years). However, the highest positivity rate (8.5%) was encountered in the age group of more than 50 years.

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronika Makarova

Abstract This paper focuses on the Iranian taaroff politeness system. We report a quantitative analysis of the attitudes to taaroff held by 60 Iranians (30 women and 30 men) of two age groups (20–29 and 40–59 years old) and their use of formulaic taaroff expressions in conversations. The data come from dialogues elicited from the participants in Iran via short scripted scenarios and from their answers to a questionnaire survey about their attitudes to taaroff. Taaroff expressions were manually extracted from the dialogue transcripts and their overall use as well as frequencies of each expression were compared across the gender and age groups with the help of t-tests. The participants’ answers to the survey questions were compared across the groups with Kruskal-Wallis H tests. The results show statistically significant differences in the participants’ attitudes to taaroff and in its use in dialogues by gender and age group.


Author(s):  
Seda SERTEL MEYVACI ◽  
Yasin Emre KAYA

Objectives: The objective of our study was to examine the changes in the inclination and Alsberg angles of the femur in terms of age and gender. Methods: The present study was conducted on X-Ray images of 208 healthy individuals (103 males and 105 females) admitted to Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Orthopedics and Traumatology Clinics. Both genders were separated into 3 different age groups. Statistical analyses were made to determine the difference between the gender and age groups. Results: The mean inclination angle of the femur was 132.88±7.08º on the right-side and 130.27±7.81º on the left. The mean Alsberg angle of the femur was 42.07±7.04º on the right-side and 41.43±7.03º on the left. The inclination angle was significantly higher in males than females on both sides and was significantly lower in 41–60 age group. The Alsberg angle was also significantly higher in males than females in 21–40 age group. Conclusion: The Alsberg angle is positively related with inclination angle, and subject to change by age. Knowing how IA and AA will be affected by age and gender and knowing the relation between these two angles will help to take a more accurate approach while evaluating and managing the follow up of a patient undergoing total hip arthroplasty, reconstructive surgery or planning physical theraphy.


Author(s):  
Fabiana Koupak ◽  
Duane Casagrande ◽  
Leticia Gramazio Soares ◽  
Débora Regina de Oliveira Moura ◽  
Tatiane Baratieri ◽  
...  

Analisar as internações hospitalares por lesões em UTI de residentes no estado do Paraná, de 1998/2015, segundo diagnóstico, sexo e faixa etária. Trata-se de um estudo ecológico, de série temporal por meio da análise de dados secundários. As internações em UTI no Paraná apresentaram um aumento relativo de 75,9% entre 1998/2015. As taxas de internação por lesões em UTI variaram de 35/100.000 em 1998/2000 para 70,6/100.000 em 2013/2015.  O sexo masculino e a faixa etária de 15 a 29 anos foram mais acometidos. O trauma de cabeça foi a principal lesão que motivou as internações nas faixas etárias de 0 a 69 anos. O trauma de quadril/coxa foi a principal causa de internação acima de 70 anos. Os resultados demonstram a importância do trauma e sua relevância para a sociedade atual fazendo-se necessário a implantação de estratégias governamentais afim de reduzir a ocorrência de lesões.Descritores: Lesões, Unidade de Terapia Intensiva, Cuidados Críticos. Hospitalizations for injuries in ICU in the State of ParanáAbstract: To analyze hospital admissions for injuries in ICUs of residents in the state of Paraná, from 1998 to 2015, according to diagnosis, gender and age group. This is an ecological, time-series study through the analysis of secondary data. ICU admissions in Paraná showed a relative increase of 75.9% between 1998 and 2015. Inpatient ICU injury rates ranged from 35.0 / 100,000 in 1998/2000 to 70.6 / 100,000 in 2013/2015. The male gender in the age group of 15 to 29 years was more affected. Head trauma was the main lesion that motivated such hospitalizations in the 0 to 69-year-old age groups, and hip and thigh trauma were the main cause of hospitalization older than 70 years. The results showed the importance of the theme and its relevance to the current society. Making it necessary to implement government strategies to reduce the occurrence of injuries.Descriptors: Injuries, Intensive Care Units, Critical Care. Hospitalización de lesiones en la UCI en el Estado de ParanáResumen: Analizar los ingresos hospitalarios por lesiones en la UTI de residentes del estado de Paraná de 1998 a 2015, según diagnóstico, sexo y grupo de edad. Este es un estudio ecológico, de serie temporal a través del análisis de datos secundarios. Las internaciones en la UTI en Paraná mostraron un aumento relativo del 75,9% entre 1998 y 2015. As tasas de internación en la UTI por lesiones variaron de 35 / 100,000 en 1998/2000 a 70,6 / 100,000 en 2013/2015. Los hombres de 15 a 29 años fueron los más afectados. El traumatismo craneoencefálico fue la principal lesión que motivó las hospitalizaciones en el grupo de edad de 0 a 69 años. El trauma de cadera y muslo fue la principal causa de hospitalización mayores de 70 años. Los resultados permitieron visualizar la importancia del trauma y su relevancia para la sociedad actual, por lo que fue necesario implementar estrategias gubernamentales para reducir la ocurrencia de lesiones.Descriptores: Lesiones, Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos, Cuidados Críticos.


2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (08) ◽  
pp. 1602-1605
Author(s):  
Sikander Hayat Khan Niazi

Objectives: To compare the frequency of congenital ptosis of Pakistani children with the children of the world. Study Design: Comparative study. Setting: Al Shifa Tertiary Eye Hospital Rawalpindi. Period: August 2013 to September 2016. Material & Methods: The record of admitted patients of all malformations of eyes was collected from pediatric eye department from age zero to 15 years. The data of each eye malformation was documented separately as per age and gender. The total numbers of eye malformations were arranged according to prevalence, age and gender. The data was analyzed separately for frequency, age and gender. All data was analyzed and arranged according to percentage of frequency, gender and age. The age data was analyzed making different age groups. Seven groups of age were made with 2 years difference between each group starting from age 0 to 15 years. The number of male and females were calculated in each age group. Total numbers of each malformation was calculated separately and percentage of each malformation calculated as per simple mathematical way to total malformations. Results: The data of five hundreds and fourteen congenital malformations of eyes was collected. The numbers of male patients were 289 and female patients were 225. As per percentage the males were 56.2% and females patients were 43.8 %. The patient age range was from age zero to fifteen years. The majority of the patients were between ages zero to two years. The total numbers of patients in this age group were 222. Out of 222 patients the males were 120 and females were 102. The total percentage of this age group was 43.2 % among all age groups. The most common frequency of eye malformation was cataract i.e. 116 (22.6 %) patients followed by lacrimal apparatus anomalies i.e. 103(20 %) and ptosis was 45 (8.8 %). Conclusion: The frequency of congenital ptosis is the third most common eye malformation among total eye malformations in this study.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adalberto Maldonado ◽  
Marco Antonio Reyes

Social, economic, and cultural factors can influence the likelihood of exposure to the virus of each person in sanitary emergencies like those of COVID-19. In this sense, parallel to the biological vulnerability to infection with SARS-CoV-2, said factors determine a complementary vulnerability to infection. Hence, they can influence in gender and age distributions of those confirmed, which is not entirely comprehended yet. The effect that age and gender can have on total vulnerability in Mexico thus far is not understood. A better understanding of such dependence can help policy optimization and decision-making to future similar emergencies. We aim to study the age and gender distributions of those confirmed with COVID-19 in Mexico. We also investigate the vulnerability to the infection with SARS-CoV-2 depending on such features. Two different samples of the Mexican population are analyzed in this non-experimental study to compare each other and evaluate the association of the result of the COVID-19 test with gender and age. Data up until the beginning of the vaccination are considered. The percentage of confirmed males is higher than females in both samples, and most tested and confirmed are working-age. Age distributions are positively skewed, with the peak in [30,39] years, which disagrees with the distribution of the Mexican population. The data suggest that the vulnerability to infection weakly depends on gender and age. Males were identified as the most vulnerable gender, and the age group [70,79] showed a higher vulnerability to infection.


Author(s):  
Daniele Miano

This book focuses on the Latin goddess Fortuna, one of the better known deities in ancient Italy. The earliest forms of her worship can be traced back to archaic Latium, and she was still a widely recognized allegorical figure during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The main reason for her longevity is that she was a conceptual deity, and had strong associations with chance and good fortune. When they were interacting with the goddess, communities, individuals, and gender and age groups were inevitably also interacting with the concept. These relations were not neutral: they allowed people to renegotiate the concept, enriching it with new meanings and challenging established ones. The geographical and chronological scope of this book is Italy from the archaic age to the late Republic. In this period Italy was a fragmented, multicultural and multilinguistic environment, characterized by a wide circulation of people, customs, and ideas, in which Rome played an increasingly dominant role. All available sources on Fortuna have been used: literary, epigraphic, and archaeological. The study of the goddess based on conceptual analysis will serve to construct a radically new picture of the historical development of this deity in the context of the cultural interactions taking place in ancient Italy. The book also aims at experimenting with a new approach to polytheism, based on the connection between gods and goddesses and concepts.


2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Silva Câmara Mattos ◽  
Maria Cecília Montagna ◽  
Clemente da Silva Fernandes ◽  
Antonio Carlos Lorenz Sabóia

Congenital absence or loss of the ocular globe during childhood causes psycho-social and cosmetic disorders and compromise the normal development of the orbital region. The literature relating to congenital or acquired etiology, due to trauma or disease, demonstrates the necessity of prevention and early detection in order to minimize the sequelae and disturbances in orbital growth. Installation of an eye prosthesis is essential to the rehabilitation process, so as to produce satisfactory development of the region. In order to characterize a profile of the child patient with this condition, a survey was carried out at the Prosthetic Eye sector, Out-patient Clinic, Discipline of Maxillofacial Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo (FOUSP), during the period from 1988 to 2003. The 124 (14.02%) patients within the age group of 0-13 years registered for ocular prosthesis were divided into a first group of 64 patients (51.62%) with 0-7 years, and a second group of 60 patients (48.38%) with 8-13 years. Fifty nine were girls and 65 were boys. No statistical significance was observed regarding the distribution of genders in the two analyzed age groups (p = 0.069). However, there was statistical significance at the level of 0.01 in relation to etiology, with higher prevalence of congenital and pathological disturbances in the younger group and traumatic occurrences in the older group. The etiology also presented variation according to the gender, at the significance level of 0.05, where girls presented three times less trauma than boys in the older age group. The necessity of prosthetic ocular repair was evenly distributed along the childhood period and the eye losses that required prosthetic treatment equally affected both genders. However, the etiology of eye loss varied according to the considered gender and age bracket.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 296-302
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Leszczynska

This article discusses issues related to organizational commitment and work related values. The research problem focuses on the correlation between values related to professional work and the affective, normative and calculative commitment of employees. A research question was posed as to what work related values are correlated with organisational commitment. The article presents the results of an empirical study conducted on a group of 2076 people with the use of a diagnostic survey. The obtained data were analysed relative to the gender and age of the respondents. The results indicate certain discrepancies in terms of the value hierarchies observable between employees of different ages. Both men and women selected work-life balance and security as their most important values. The level of commitment was comparable between representatives of the two genders, with the levels observed for normative commitment. Organisational commitment increased with age and was statistically different for the respective age groups. The study confirmed the correlation between the hierarchy of work related values and the level of commitment, as well as the discrepancies in this respect between the respective age and gender groups. The same suggests that there is a need to account for values held by the employees when developing and employing motivational systems and HR practices.


Author(s):  
Kovalevsky A.M. ◽  
Nikitenko V.V. ◽  
Potockaya A.V.

As an outpatient appointment, 347 patients (185 men and 162 women) who first sought dental care for chronic generalized periodontitis were examined in the therapeutic department of the Dentistry clinic of the Kirov Military Medical Academy. All patients were divided into three age groups: 40-45 years, 46-50 years, 51-55 years. There were no patients younger than 40 years old and older than 55 years old among the examined ones. When analyzing the results of the examination of patients, it was revealed that the largest number of patients belongs to the age group of 40-45 years (49.3±2.7% of all examined), on the second place was the age group of 46-50 years – 127 (36.6±2.6% of all examined) people (p<0.001), the smallest the group of patients was 51-55 years, 49 (14.2±1.9% of all examined) people (p<0.001). There were no large differences in the number of patients by gender between the age groups (p>0.05). Mild chronic generalized periodontitis prevails among the examined patients (65.1±2.6%, p<0.001). The mild severity of chronic generalized periodontitis was recorded in 121 (65.4±3.5%) of the 185 men, among 162 women – in 106 (64.8±3.8%). Chronic generalized periodontitis of moderate severity was detected in 42 (22.7±3.1%) men and 38 (23.5±3.3%) women. Finally, 22 (11.9±2.4%) men and 19 (11.7±2.5%) women went to the therapeutic department of the dental clinic with severe chronic generalized periodontitis. Thus, there were no large differences between the sexes in the number of patients with different degrees of severity of chronic generalized periodontitis (p>0.05).


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsi Wiman ◽  
Sina Hulkkonen ◽  
Jouko Miettunen ◽  
Juha Auvinen ◽  
Jaro Karppinen ◽  
...  

Abstract Nerve injuries of the upper extremity can cause significant motor and sensory deficits that may lead to personal suffering and work disability with increased healthcare costs. The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiology of nerve injuries of the upper extremity in the whole population of Finland (1998–2016). Data based on diagnosis codes were obtained from the Care Register for Health Care, including incident cases of median, radial, ulnar, musculocutaneous, axillary, and digital nerves. Age- and gender-specific incidence rates, both crude and standardised (for the European normal population in 2011), were calculated as well as the level of the nerve injuries in the upper extremity. Our study included 13,458 patients with upper extremity nerve injury. The mean standardised incidence rate of any upper extremity nerve injury was 1.18 among men and 0.05 among women per 100,000 person-years over the study period. The incidence peaked among men at working age. The most common nerve injury level was the fingers and thumb, with 5,533 cases and mean standardised incidence rates per 100,000 person-years of 0.51 among men and 0.19 among women.


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