For example, students who are not gender conforming are often targets of verbal and physical bullying (and more severe violence) because creative gender expression is not a difference that has cultural value.
Female gender, more severe post traumatic stress response, and low expectations of recovery were associated with poor outcome at 12 months.
Female gender, more severe post traumatic stress response, and reduced expectations of recovery have been found associated with poor outcome in WAD [ 24- 28].
In addition, older age, female gender, more severe NYHA class, and acute MI were each associated with worse HRQoL.> -wrap-foot> *p value < 0.05; **p value < 0.01; ***p value < 0.001; NYHA – New York Heart Association functional class.
The present study showed that female gender, more severe post traumatic stress response, and reduced expectations of recovery are associated with poor outcome in WAD, in line with previous reports [ 24- 28].
Eaton and Bradley [ 29] explain these sex differences in coping by the differences in stress appraisal between men and women (that is, women tend to appraise the same stressors as more severe than men), and by gender socialization processes.
We could not assess gender differences in more severe forms of IPV because of their low prevalence and our modest sample size.
Higher mortality was associated with older age, male gender, lower BMI, more severe dyspnea scale, worse level of consciousness, worse level of activities of daily life, and more severe pneumonia.
Similarly, analysis of symptom subtypes in the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area study found more severe subtypes were associated with female gender and family history but not stressful life events, while mild or moderate cases were associated with family history and stressful events, but not female gender [ 23].
While older age at ART initiation, greater number of available visits during follow-up, female gender, and having more severe WHO HIV clinical staging were all negatively associated with the level of CD4 absolute count on the log-scale, only age at ART initiation reached statistical significance.
