Effects of nine social life indicators on age-adjusted and age-specific annual suicide mortality of male and female Japanese population in the years 1953-96 were investigated by multiple regression analysis on time series data. Unemployment rate was significantly related to the age-adjusted mortality in both males and females. Also, female labour force participation was positively related to th...

The costs of violence and aggression in our society have stimulated the scientific search for the predictors and causes of aggression. The majority of studies have focused on males, which are considered to be more aggressive than females in most species. However, rates of offensive behavior in girls and young women are considerable and are currently rising in Western society. The extrapolation ...

Human calcitonin (hCT) response to a 1-minute calcium infusion was studied in 6 male and 4 female young normal subjects and in 6 male and 6 female elderly subjects. In the young subjects plasma hCT levels increased significantly (p less than 0.01) from mean basal value of 82.3 +/- 48.7 pg/ml to maximum level of 407.5 +/-198.0 pg/ml in the male, while it increased from 96.3 +/- 89.2 to 216.3 +/-...

UNLABELLED The vibration of the vocal fold lamina propria is an important factor involved in vocal production and aging may change the amount of hyaluronic acid in the vocal fold leading to dysphonia. AIMS This study compares the concentration of hyaluronic acid in vocal folds of aged and young female rats. STUDY DESIGN experimental. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used the vocal cords of 13 fem...