This longitudinal study found that HRQoL changes over time and seems to be predominantly gender influenced, with females reporting somewhat poorer QoL than males.
Other factors that were significantly associated with the OOPE and/or OOPE burden were predominantly gender, physical and mental health status reflected in the SF-12 score and income, with rurality being significant in three groups of regressions (Tables 5, 6 and 7) and age in two (Table 6 and Table 7).
William Bennett, conservative stalwart, television commentator and secretary of education under President Reagan, complained on the CNN Web site that Democrats have been successful in setting the parameters and focus of the national and political dialogue as predominantly about gender, race, ethnicity and class.
The patients were 84 years old (interquartile range, IQR 81 86) and were predominantly male gender (61%).
We have devoted significant resources to developing innovative and complex systems to proactively monitor the site and its users, including those not on a sex offender registry, for suspicious activity (such as contacting minors or users of predominantly one gender).
A total of 40 patients with predominantly female gender were included in the screening phase of the study (mean age 52 years; range: 18 79 years) (Table 1).
This is the first study to demonstrate that occupational exposures are associated with distinct clinical characteristics in smokers and ex-smokers with COPD, i.e. (i) older age and predominantly male gender, (ii) more frequent respiratory-related work disability or handicap and (iii) increased prevalence of hay fever, asthma, current sputum production, lifetime and current wheezing.
The few standout ads (which included Honda's play on "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," MetLife's inclusion of classic cartoon characters, Toyota's riff on "reinvention" and Volkswagen's exercising dog) were predominantly genderless or gender neutral.
The second axis separated the samples predominantly according to gender (supplemental figure 1).
Consequently, maternal health programme interventions have looked at addressing issues of poor nutrition, lack of awareness, and health seeking behaviour predominantly through this gender lens.
The magnitude of the exercise-induced increase in cTnI was not different among lean, obese, and overweight subjects and relates predominantly to age, gender and exercise intensity.
