INTRODUCTION We investigated the association between echocardiographic (Echo) left ventricular mass (LVM) indexed to body surface area (LVM/BSA) or height(2.7) (LVM/H(2.7)) and electrocardiographic (ECG) variables in 546 Chinese hypertensives. METHODS The study group was stratified by gender and by BMI into obese (BMI > or =28 kg/m(2)), overweight (BMI > or =24 kg/m(2) and BMI <28 kg/m(2)), a...

Feminist-inspired scholarship has shown gender as being not naturally given, but as derived from the society in which individuals live. It involves a society’s use of biological differences as the starting point to define what it means to be male and female. In societies characterised by male dominance (patriarchy), gender is an expression of political power that enshrines rigid stratification ...

Although gender is central to contemporary accounts of educational stratification, sexuality has been largely invisible as a population-level axis academic inequality. Taking advantage major recent data expansions, the current study establishes core dimension stratification in United States. First, I analyze lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adults’ college completion rates: overall, by race/eth...

The present research tries to show how race, class, and gender and intersectionality in general, have their decisive impact on the black- American women; and how Alice Walker as a womanist, in her selected short stories, tries to show that black women in the U.S. suffer two-fold acts of oppression and discrimination, i.e. male violence affects all women in social life, irrespective of age or so...