Sentences with phrase «disease than females»

Male cats are much more likely to get this disease than females.

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Female partners of circumcised men do not report a lower rate of cervical cancer, 40 nor does circumcision prevent penile cancer.41 A recent study shows that the penile cancer rate is higher in the US than in Denmark, where circumcision, except among Middle - Eastern immigrant workers, is almost unheard of.42 Indeed, researchers should investigate the possibility that circumcision has actually increased the rate of these diseases.

According to statistics kept by the Centers for Disease Control, in 2007, girls» soccer players reported 29,167 concussions, second only to football players.And, a study published in the Jan. 2011 edition of theJournal of Athletic Training said female athletes experience more physical long - term symptoms than male athletes.

But because women respond to medications and develop some diseases differently than men, researchers need to include female lab animals, tissues and cells in their experiments, according to a Nature commentary Clayton co-wrote in May.

This will provide information that could be used to illuminate how malaria — a disease which causes more than half a million deaths a year — is spread from human to human by parasite - infected female mosquitoes which bite people to feed on blood they need in order to reproduce.

Associations between parental psychiatric disease and violent offending by children were stronger for female than male children; suicide attempts by children were comparable regardless of sex.

These include functioning successfully in their lives before the disease emerged; experiencing severe symptoms suddenly, all at once, rather than little by little; being older when the disease appeared; being female; having a higher IQ; and lacking a family history of the disorder.

Based on these results, researchers suggest that «if post-2000 trends continue, the chance of meeting the global target of UN on this disease is lower than 1 % for males and 1 % for females worldwide.

The team is also embarking on a study of another female - biased autoimmune disease, Sjogrens syndrome, which has an even more extreme female bias than lupus, to see if similar X inactivation patterns are present.

«According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, males are nearly four times more likely than females to have autism, but the reason for this sex bias is still a mystery,» said Hu, professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

But, our findings show that in women with type 1 diabetes this «female protection» seems to be lost and excess deaths in women with type 1 diabetes are higher than in men with the disease.»

Before her 2000 diagnosis of Wegener's granulomatosis — a disease that inflames the blood vessels and impairs important organs — the environmental microbiologist sometimes felt that she was valued less for her work than for being the only female Native American in HSU's College of Natural Resources and Sciences.

So when Drake and his colleagues measured the RNA levels — a direct link to how much of a gene is being produced — in the genes of 334 mice, he didn't expect to find more than a few variations that might help explain why males and females have such different rates of cardiovascular disease and diabetes or why they react differently to certain drugs.

Feedback allows female hogs to become infected and pass on immunity to piglets, which are more likely to die from the disease than older hogs.

«Male birds are infected more often than females with the diseases that mosquitoes carry, so it makes sense that mosquitoes bite males more often.

«Understanding why mosquitoes bite males more often than females may lead to novel strategies for interrupting disease transmission,» said Burkett - Cadena, an Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences faculty member.

Female offspring, whose mothers had diabetes, were more often affected by MetS, higher glucose levels, and body fat content, rather than female offspring of fathers with diabetes, or no parent diseased aFemale offspring, whose mothers had diabetes, were more often affected by MetS, higher glucose levels, and body fat content, rather than female offspring of fathers with diabetes, or no parent diseased afemale offspring of fathers with diabetes, or no parent diseased at all.

However, actual data from the Swedish National Diabetes Register showed that excess mortality was much higher in females, younger than 55 years with advanced renal disease, than in men (324).

The study findings may be about more than just bragging rights, however: Researchers say they may shed light on how male and female brains age differently, and why women are at higher risk for Alzheimer's disease.

Leonore Tiefer, PhD, a psychiatry professor at NYU School of Medicine with more than 35 years of experience as a sexologist, goes so far as to call the idea of female sexual dysfunction «disease - mongering,» and she has spearheaded a campaign against it.

More than 90 % of lupus cases occur in females, says Dr. Gilkeson, and the disease is more common in Hispanic and African women than in Caucasians.

(Was just reading this article, which says: «Female vegetarians have higher coronary heart disease mortality than female non-vegetaFemale vegetarians have higher coronary heart disease mortality than female non-vegetafemale non-vegetarians.

The disease occurs six times more frequently in women than in men (female / male ratio 6:1).

Dr. Fasano is not including the fact that most people with autoimmune diseases are females; females are three times more likely to get hashi's than males; most hashimoto's sufferers developed this disease during or after pregnancy, during menopause... It is obvious that hormone fluctuations is the main cause of Hashimoto to develop.

For both male and female Rotties spayed or neutered before one year of age, there was a one in four lifetime risk for bone cancer, and the sterilized animals were significantly more likely to develop the disease than intact dogs of the same breed.

More than 90 percent of female ferrets with adrenal gland disease develop an enlarged vulva, which may be accompanied by discharge.

Intact female cats are much more likely to develop the disease than spayed ones.

Middle - aged and older pets are at increased risk of developing the disease, and females are more commonly affected than males.

The disease is seen most often in females (up to 80 %) and dogs older than 7 years of age.

Females are more affected than males, with the disease usually occurring in senior canines.

Females fall prey to the disease more than males.

Hereditary nephritis in the Samoyed is a dominant, X-linked disease that affects young male dogs more severely than females.

... that male cats tend to suffer from Cat Diabetes more often than female cats, and obesity also increases an animal's risk of developing this disease?

Male rabbits can also develop disease of the reproductive organs (the testicles) but with much less frequency than females.

In humans, the gene that is linked to this type of clotting defect is recessive and affects more women than men; this is not as true for dogs, as males and females are equally susceptible to inheriting the disease.

A 2013 study of Golden Retrievers by researchers at the University of California, Davis indicated that disease rates for two joint disorders and three cancers were significantly higher for male and female dogs that had been sterilized than those that had not been spayed or neutered.

Epidemiology of tattoo skin disease in captive common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Are males more vulnerable than females?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 22 percent of teenage drivers involved in fatal automobile accidents had been drinking, and that the occurrence of teen drinking and driving is higher for males than females.

Hospitalisation for ischaemic heart disease for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males was double the rate, and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander females four times the rate, than for the general population.