... patients are females. Although not as prominent, gender differences in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have been reported for epidemiology, disease presentation, disease course and complications, medical and surgical therapies, adherence, psychosocial functioning, and psychiatric co-disorders. While...

... for the higher remission rate. Gender (female) was a prognostic factor for higher remission rate at 1 year and higher cumulative non-colectomy rate. Conclusions: This study revealed good short- and long-term outcomes of IFX treatment in patients with steroid-refractory UC. Previous treatment with calcineurin...

... gastric emptying. Nevertheless, the standard value of 13 C-acetate breath test has not taken into account the gender difference of gastric emptying among healthy individuals. The main aim of this study was to readjust the standard value of 13 C-acetate breath test in the light of gender differences...

...F. Gundling; H. Seidl; N. Scalercio; T. Schmidt; W. Schepp; C. Pehl Introduction: In the literature, data on the effects of gender and age on the pressure data of anorectal manometry differ. Possible reasons are investigation of only small numbers of healthy people and comparison of only 2 groups...

... the risks (with their 95% CI) of being a sibling case according to the age of the index case at diagnosis and gender; in addition, the relative risks (RR, together with their 95% CI) for female vs. male are shown in the last column of the table 4 . It can be seen that for a celiac patient the probability...