Lei Yang^1,*, Zhipeng Sun^2,3

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.1, pp. 31-43, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2022.021375

Abstract Little is known about the association between structural gender inequality and health in patriarchal China. This study employed a sample from the Chinese Women’s Social Status, consisting of 26,139 participants aged 18 and 70 years (13,494 women and 12,645 men). Structural gender inequality was assessed at the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels. Mental health was measured by the summed scores of eight questions on depressive symptoms. Multilevel linear regression was applied for analysis. Results showed that total sex ratio at birth was associated with poorer mental health among women and men but sex ratio at birth of the second-born child predicted… More >

HUI ZHANG^1,3,#, SHIRUI CHEN^1,3,#, MENGTING LIU^1,2, YAOCHI WANG^1,2, CONG XIN^1,2, JING MA^1,3, XIAODONG ZHENG^1,2, YUANDI HUANG^1,2, BO ZHANG^3,4, XUEJUN ZHANG^1,2, LIANGDAN SUN^1,2,*, SEN YANG^1,3,*

BIOCELL, Vol.45, No.5, pp. 1321-1335, 2021, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2021.016524

Abstract The skin is the largest organ of the human body, and its aging is visible to the naked eye. The aging rate of men and women is slightly different. This study compared the protein expression of skin samples on the curved forearms of 11 healthy women and 9 healthy men. Quantitative proteomics analysis found that the expression of epidermal proteins in men and women of the same age group was different. Compared with female skin, in male skin, 20 proteins were upregulated, and 7 proteins were downregulated. These data suggest that men and women have differences in the speed of… More >