Older age, female sex, and non-white race were weaker predictors.
Other factors reported in studies are age, female sex and low educational status.
The association between older age, female gender and injury/poisoning is also consistent with existing literature.
Results: Hb levels were related to older age, female, greater functional impairment and cardiac dysfunction, and higher BNP.
Poor bone quality, advancing age, female sex and rheumatoid arthritis are the principal predictors for periprosthetic fracture [1, 2].
Contributing risk factors include advanced age, female gender, osteoporosis, falls, prolonged corticosteroid treatment, rheumatoid arthritis, and pelvic irradiation [5, 6].
Older age, female gender, and direction of the fall again were significantly associated with the likelihood of sustaining an injury.
This systematic review shows that preoperative anemia, advancing age, female gender, and small body size are often associated with perioperative allogeneic RBC transfusion.
Factors associated with previous influenza vaccination were older age, female sex, higher education and greater support for injectable vaccine (all P < .02).02
Nonmodifiable risk factors include older age, female sex, caucasian race, worse socioeconomic status, low education level [17, 18], and genetic factors [19].
In the general population, the prevalence rate of TPO-Abs ranges from about 2 30% (Kabelitz et al. 2003), depending on age (female > men) and gender (old > young).
