Sexual activity was significantly associated to gender, with males being more sexually active as compared to the females.
Regarding the latter, limitations/lack of access to social goods, which may be associated to gender and race/ethnicity, may have an impact on health.
Interestingly, foreign women do not cumulate the two wage penalties associated to gender and origin and receive roughly the same wage penalty as native women.
As an extension to our previous published study [ 15], we planned this study to investigate the possible factors associated to this gender differences.
In addition, a better survival was independently associated to female gender after 9 months and to patients with a high CD4 trajectory on HAART.
Statistical analysis in this study demonstrated that ACL diameter is significantly proportional to body weight and not significantly associated to height, gender, and age.
In the regression analysis, the diameter of ACL near tibial insertion site was found significantly proportional to body weight and not significantly associated to height, gender, and age.
Patients characteristics with respect to CCU admission status are presented in table 2. In the bivariate analysis it emerged that lower odds of being directly admitted to CCU were associated to female gender, older age, and higher Charlson's index, while we found no difference with respect to SES level (Table 3, first three columns).
Univariate analysis showed that higher satisfaction in RS dimension was associated to male gender (P = 0.032), urban residence (P = 0.008), higher income (>180 euro/month) (P = 0.001), staying in double room (P = 0.001), better perceived health status compared to admission (P < 0.001), and satisfaction with life in general (P < 0.001).
Contradictory results are reported by Mayer-Oakes et al., [ 61] and Swartz et al., [ 62] who showed the use of benzodiazepines to be associated not to gender but to physical health status, poorer in women than in men.
It seem to be associated to disease duration, gender, and migraine chronicity [24 26].
