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.
Women were almost two times more likely to experience
symptoms than their male peers.
As a result, many adolescents developed anxiety disorders, with females reporting a greater number of PTSD
symptoms than males.
Females also reported having more depressive
symptoms than males at Time 1, p <.001, and higher academic achievement at Time 2, p =.006, than males.
Not exact matches
«
Male gender and UF FA values are independent risk factors for persistent post-concussion
symptoms after three months and stronger predictors of time to recovery
than initial
symptom severity or neurocognitive test results,» Dr. Fakhran said.
Thus, females are likely to compensate and even mask
symptoms more successfully
than males.
Likewise,
male mice with a Rett mutation have much more severe
symptoms than the females do, says Zhong - wei Zhang, associate professor at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.
In the trial, which took place in Denmark, 1,234 patients (average age 61; 75 percent
male) with acute STEMI
symptoms of less
than 12 hours» duration were randomly assigned to receive standard angioplasty with immediate stent implantation or angioplasty followed by stent implantation after a re-examination 24 to 48 hours later.
The DANAMI - 3 iPOST trial, which took place in Denmark, included 1,234 patients (average age 61; 79 percent
male) with acute STEMI
symptoms of less
than 12 hours» duration who were randomly assigned to receive standard angioplasty or ischemic postconditioning prior to stent implantation in the blocked artery.
In every species the apparent
symptoms of satiety are more conspicuous among
males than females.
You probably already have insulin resistance syndrome if you have three of the following five
symptoms: (1) A waist circumference of forty inches or more in
males or thirty - four and one - half inches or more in females (2) Blood pressure that is equal to or greater
than 130/85 (3) Blood triglycerides equal to or greater
than 150 mg / dL (4) HDL («good cholesterol) under 40 mg / dL in
males or under 50 in females (5) Fasting blood glucose that equals or exceeds 110 mg / dL If you have insulin resistance syndrome, do whatever your physician recommends.
Higher
than normal androgens (AKA
male hormones) cause annoying PCOS
symptoms like with like facial hair, belly fat, hair loss and acne.
-- Since hormonal imbalance (raised levels of testosterone and other
male sex hormones) results in many of the
symptoms of PCOS (all women produce testosterone, but normally in much lower levels
than men) it is very important to regulate hormones by using the following natural remedies:
-- Hormonal imbalance: Raised levels of testosterone and other
male sex hormones results in many of the
symptoms of PCOS (all women produce testosterone, but normally in much lower levels
than men).
Waiting till the
symptoms manifest is really letting your body down.You need to support the physiological changes your body experiences over time.This is more apparent in women
than in men who go through andropause or
male menopause, as a woman's hormonal fluctuation is more difficult to balance.
While the young men also experienced fatigue, tension, and anxiety when mildly dehydrated, adverse changes in mood and
symptoms were «substantially greater in females
than in
males, both at rest and during exercise,» according to the study.
Affected
male dogs typically present with
symptoms related to cysteine bladder stones at 6 to 14 months of age, however female dogs tend to develop
symptoms later
than males.
This is leading to women leaders under greater amounts of internal stress
than their
male counterparts and may cause
symptoms of depression.
Reduced Trauma
Symptoms and Perceived Stress in
Male Prison Inmates through the Transcendental Meditation Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial Sanford Nidich, EdD; Tom O'Connor, PhD; Thomas Rutledge, PhD; Jeff Duncan; Blaze Compton, MA; Angela Seng; Randi Nidich, EdD Trauma events are 4 times more prevalent in inmates
than in the general public and are associated with increased recidivism and other mental and physical health issues.
On average, female adolescents are more likely
than males to react to stressors with depressive
symptoms (Piccinelli & Wilkinson, 2000), which could lead to stronger effects of chronic illness on depressive
symptoms.
A substantial body of research indicates that regardless of race and age, female offenders have higher rates of mental health problems, both internalizing and externalizing,
than male offenders.19 In a study of serious «deep - end» offenders, females exhibited both more externalizing problems and more internalizing problems
than males.20 Moreover, a recent study using common measures and a demographically matched sample of community and detained youth found that gender differences were greater among detained youth
than among community youth, with detained girls having more
symptoms of mental illness
than would be predicted on the basis of gender or setting alone.21
Females reported higher levels of somatic
symptoms and emotional distress
than males.
Teachers rated
males in the regular early childhood sample as having more severe ADHD and aggressive
symptoms than females, but this was not the case for the PDD sample.
Consistent with the developmental literature, main effects revealed that older adolescents and females reported more
symptoms of depression
than did younger adolescents and
males.
The results revealed two significant gender differences: First, the path to ODD
symptoms from ADHD
symptoms differed by gender (Δχ2 [3] = 61.12, p < 0.01) and was slightly stronger for females (β = 0.50, p < 0.01)
than for
males (β = 0.47, p < 0.01).
In addition, girls who present both depressive
symptoms and aggressive behaviors are substantially more impaired
than their
male counterparts [2 — 4].
In particular, irritability, which is a core
symptom of depression in young people, appears to be more common in females
than in
males [18].
Shared environmental factors were generally not influential, and nonshared environmental effects were stronger for
males than for females for inattention / impulsivity These results suggest that impulsivity and inattention during this period of childhood are (1) clearly related to concurrent aggressive / defiant
symptoms; (2) multidimensional, with influences of method of assessment on outcome; and (3) highly heritable, with possible gender differences in the strength of genetic effects.
For example,
male batterers are more likely
than non-batterers to exhibit
symptoms of diminished mental health, as well as a variety of severe clinical disorders ranging from major depression and anxiety to personality disorders (e.g., antisocial, borderline, narcissistic).
The results revealed that (1) for females and
males, higher levels of depressive
symptoms correlated with a more depressive attributional style; (2) females and
males who met diagnostic criteria for a current depressive disorder evidenced more depres - sogenic attributions
than psychiatric controls, and never and past depressed adolescents; (3) although no sex differences in terms of attributional patterns for positive events, negative events, or for positive and negative events combined emerged, sex differences were revealed on a number of dimensional scores; (4) across the Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ) subscale and dimensional scores, the relation between attributions and current self - reported depressive
symptoms was stronger for females
than males; and (5) no Sex × Diagnostic Group Status interaction effects emerged for CASQ subscale or dimensional scores.
Yet, although
male adolescents may be generally somewhat more predisposed to engage in alcohol misuse
than female adolescents, unlike depressive
symptoms, gender differences on peer relationships may be less relevant when it comes to socialization of drinking behaviors.
Specifically, Anxiety Disorder
Symptoms at age 13 predicted Variability in Happiness and Anger more strongly for
male (β = 0.31 and β = 0.30, both ps < 0.001 for Happiness and Anger Variability respectively)
than for female participants (β = 0.21 and β = 0.20, both ps < 0.01 for Happiness and Anger Variability respectively), Δχ ² (1) = 5.40 for Happiness and Δχ ² (1) = 5.09, for Anger Variability, both ps < 0.05.
Further, mothers attributed more internalising
symptoms to female respondents, and more externalising
symptoms to
male respondents,
than did the child respondents themselves.
It is suggested that females with ADHD require a greater load of risk
than males before manifesting
symptoms [11, 14].