Article history: Received 25 November 2010 Received in revised form 21 February 2011 Accepted 21 February 2011 Available online 17 March 2011 Childhood intelligence (age 11) and occupational social status at midlife (age 46 to 51) was associated with marital status and reproduction in a sample from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study (N=9614). Male and female divorcees had lower chi...

objective: the aim of the present study was to evaluate unstimulated salivary flow rate and oral symptoms in menopausal women. materials and methods: a total of 200 individuals including 100 women in their menopause (case group) and 100 men in the same age range (control group) participated in this analytic descriptive investigation. none of the patients were being treated for any systemic dise...

Background and aims: Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of mortality among men and women so that the difference in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) symptoms between men and women can affect diagnosis and time of decision making for treatment and consequently disease outcomes. Therefore, knowledge of different symptoms affects the prognosis of the disease according to t...

the purpose of current survey is to determine the effectiveness of stress management training on the well-being of divorced women who are under support of baharestan township welfare organization. the method used for this survey was quasi-experimental by designing pretest- posttest with evidence group. statistical population of the study includes 587 divorced women who were under support of bah...

Background & Aims: The most common problem of unsatisfied couples is failure in communication skills and the ability to control emotions. Psychological well-being is one of the most important success factors in marital life. The aim of this study was to compare communication skills, psychological well-being, and alexithymia between female applicants and non-applicants of divorc...

That unmarried individuals die at a faster rate than married individuals at all ages is well documented. Unmarried women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess female mortality faced by older unmarrie...

Background & Aims: The most common problem of unsatisfied couples is failure in communication skills and the ability to control emotions. Psychological well-being is one of the most important success factors in marital life. The aim of this study was to compare communication skills, psychological well-being, and alexithymia between female applicants and non-applicants of divorce in Tabriz, Iran...

Using data collected in a study of sex differences in schizophrenia, I undertook this study to show the utility of distinguishing between sex and gender in the study of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder were combined to yield 213 patients (141 men, 72 women). There were 98 healthy controls (41 men, 57 women). The relative contributions of sex and gender to the prediction...

Dear Editor, Data from the year 2011 on more than 370,000 practicing physicians in Brazil reveal that female physicians account for approximately 20% of those aged 60 years or more and about 50% (≤ 29 years = 53.3% the majority!) in the age range younger than 40 years1. Regarding Cardiology, in 2008 women represented 27.3% of those approved by the Examination Board to obtain the title of Specia...