Poster presentation will be displayed from Friday February 24th 8:00 AM till Saturday February 25th 18:00. Presentations will be mounted on Thursday February 23rd from 16:00 to 19:30, dismantle will be on Saturday February 25th, at 18:00 – 19:00 and will be the responsibility of the presenter. The Organizing Committee will not be responsible for posters that are not removed on time.

Poster Board No.

1 Teen Esteem – A gender-specific wellness intervention to promote heart health and reduce risk in teen girls
Bonnie Arkus, Kathleen C. Ashton

2 Changes in patterns of dyspepsia, peptic ulcer disease and the role of helicobacter pylori in a general population: The Sorreisa II study
Anne Mette Asfeldt, Bjorn Straume, Maja-Lisa Lochen, Jon Florholmen, Eyvind Paulssen

3 Management of congestive heart failure in older women
Nahid Azad

4 Gender, Sex and Sexuality - a web-based module for medical students
Nahid Azad, Shayna Watson, Robin Williams, Amy Andrews, Aleks Mineyko, Lee-Anne Facey-Crowther, Anna Day, Louis Chan

5 Possible interaction between gender and cardiovascular risk factors in first - and second-generation Turkish migrant women
Angelika Bader, Doris Musshauser, Alice Chwosta, Margarethe Hochleitner

6 Female age and first pregnancy
Mojgan Barati, Farideh Moramezi, Sara Masihi, Mahvash Zargar, Najmeh Saadati, Batool Hosainpour

7 No gender differences in the presentation, management and outcome of unstable angina
T Ben-Ami, H Gilutz, A Porath, G Sosna, N Liel-Cohen

8 Women's health e-learning program
Nili Ben-Zvi, Michael Rosenbluth, Revital Gross-Myers, Yael Ashkenazi

9 Women's health syllabus in Israel
Nili Ben-Zvi, Silvia Nussbaum, Shlomit Sayag

10 Gender differences in job strain lifestyle and health outcomes: A study of Swedish organizations
Christina Bjorklund, Gunnar Bergstrom, Irene Jensen

11 Female mice are more susceptible to the development of asthma than males
MJ Blacquiere, BN Melgert, M Geerlings, M Luinge, HAM Kerstjens, W Timens, MN Hylkema, DS Postma

12 Metabolic syndrome, gender disparities and vascular risk: The Northern Manhattan Study
Bernadette Boden-Albala, Ji Chong, Ralph Sacco, Xiadong Luo

13 Sex-different regulation of fatty acid translocase/CD36 expression in rat liver
Louisa Cheung, Malin Andersen, Nina Stahlberg, Amilcar Flores-Morales, Leandro Fernandez, Jacob Odenberg, Gunnar Norstedt, Petra Tollet-Egnell

14 Cross-species comparison of hepatic sex differences identified in transcript profiles
Louisa Cheung, Elizabeth Rico-Bautista, Gunnar Norsted, Petra Tollet-Egnell

15 Gender Mainstreaming in Health Care: Will it stop bias?
Alice Chwosta, Angelika Bader, Doris Musshauser, Margarethe Hochleitner

16 Gender differences in the relation between ambulatory blood pressure and left ventricular mass in hypertensive outpatients
Franco Cipollini, Flavia Franconi, Carlo Porta, Enrica Arcangeli, Giuseppe Seghieri

17 Gender specific differences in left ventricular hypertrophy in DOCA-salt mice with hypertensive kidney disease
Aysun Karatas , Melina Nieminen-Kelha, Maxim Krikov, Yvonne Linde, Bjorn Hegner, Duska Dragun

18 Dopamine D1 receptor involvement in the antidepressant-like effect of allopregnanolone in theforced swimming test
Paolo S. D'Aquila, Marco Sardella, Maria E. Canu, Davide Carta, Giuseppina Monni, Serra Gino, Flavia Franconi

19 Gender differences in operative outcome after surgical coronary artery revascularisation without the use of extracorporeal circulation
SH Daebritz, H Mair, JS Sachweh, P Uberfuhr, P Lamm, B Reichart

20 Gender-differences in the relative contribution of NO and EDHF on the regulation of vasomotor tone of rabbit mesenteric arteries
Paola Del Basso Orsini, Simona Calciano, Tiziana Coletta, Maria Zurlo, Fulvia Fabi

21 Escitalopram for the Treatment of Insomnia During the Perimenopausal Period
Zipi Dolev

22 The relation between social and economical factors with sexual dysfunction in menopausal women
Fariba Fahami, Roshanak Hassanzahrae, Marjan Beigi, Soroor Arman

23 The impact of health media practitioners in gender-specific medicine public enlightenment and advocacy
Olalekan Fatodu

24 Metabolic consequences of neonatal manipulation are gender dependent
Flavia Franconi, Stefania Carta, Irene Guarino, Giovanni Ghirlanda, Alberto Loizzo

25 Age and gender differences in the association between MPO 463>¨A and lung cancer: Results form the Genetic Susceptibility to Environmental Carcinogens pooled analysis
E Frullanti, S Forti, S Raimondi, S Benhamou, I Cascorbi, L Le Marchand, SJ London, A Risch, M. R. Spitz, I. Stucker, P. Yang, E. Taioli

26 Which genes make women? Significant nucleotidic variation in Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome patients
Miho Fujii, Akiyo Sugai, Kenichiro Ikuma, Toshiaki Endo, Tsuyoshi Saito

27 Is the coronary risk different, in our men and women?
VJ Gavara Palomar, C Ariza Copado, A L Garcia Gonzalez, S Martin Soto, C Lopez Marquez, E Ordonez Ordonez, F Aguera Mengual, A Barba Jimenez, A. Niang Fernandez, R. Hernandez Caler, M. Soto Martinez

28 The impact of gender differences on serum total immunoglobulin E (IgE) and histamine levels in migraine patients without aura
Parisa Gazerani, Iars Arendt-Nielsen

29 Effect of hormone replacement therapy on arterio sclerosis of common carotid artery
Ken-ichi Goya, Shun-ichiro Izumi, Takayo Murano, Akira Mori, Masae Ikeda, Haruyo Atsumi, Masako Shida, Goh Kika, Kazumi Takahashi

30 Reflections on the sex/gender distinction for gender specific medicine
Victoria M. Grace

31 Gender-related metal exposure of the Austrian population
Claudia Gundacker, Gunter Komarnicki, Christian Forster, Ernst Schuster, Karl Wittmann

32 Gender Basic: Promoting attention to sex and gender differences in life sciences
research in Europe
Joke A. Haafkens, Ineke Klinge

33 Attention to gender differences in public health policies on the prevention of cardiovascular disease: results from case studies in three countries
Joke A. Haafkens

34 Integrating a gender perspective into the development of clinical guidelines: a course for guideline developers
Joke Haafkens, Debby Keuken, Gerben ter Riet, Clara Moerman, Niek Klazinga

35 The efficacy of traditional herbal medicines (Kampo) in peri-menopause
Tomoko Hayano, Akiko Hamasaki, Tomomi Kamata, Yuki Yasyui, Tomoko Umeda, Atsuko Fukuda, Koushirou Moritani, Nozomu Ootani, Yuuji Furutani, Terufumi Kinbara, Yutaka Satou, Susumu Sanagi

36 p63 and Notch pathway in male germ cell tumors
Tetsuo Hayashi, Soichiro Yoshida, Atsushi Yoshinaga, Rena Ohno, Nobuyuki Ishii, Toshiya Terao, Takumi Yamada

37 Gender differences, morbidity and mortality: The Danish experiences. Register based analyses combined with reflections about stress as mediator of disease
Karin Helweg-Larsen, Birgit Petersson

38 Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in women
Rebecka Hultgren, Emma Larsson, Fredrik Granath, Jesper Swedenborg

39 Reasons for gender differences in prescription of drug therapies in rheumatoid arthritis – results from the database of the German Collaborative Arthritis Centres
Doerte Huscher, Katja Thiele, Carolin Weber, Angela Zink

40 Detection of bad treatments in female population's sample in a Primary Health Care Center of Barcelona
M. Teresa Icart, Anna M. Pulpon-Segura, M. Carmen Icart, Assumpta Rigol, Ruth Martin, Julia Mena, Rosa Garcia, Ocar Sanchez, Montserrat Garcia

41 Arterio sclerosis of common carotid artery after menopause
Masae Ikeda, Shun-ichiro Izumi, Takayo Murano, Akira Mori, Ken-ichi Goya, Takahiro suzuki, Hidehiko Matsubayashi, Liyi Cai, Kazumi TakahashiI

42 Clinical effects of zataria multiflora essential oil on primary dysmenorrhea
Mina Iravani

43 A defining moment in our history: Examining disease models of gender identity
Andrea James

44 Modernisation of the Statutory Health Insurance Act in Germany – does it influence sex-specific prescribing characteristics?
Katrin Janhsen, Gerd Glaeske

45 Depression and Cardiovascular Events in Women: Do Inflammatory Markers Explain this Relationship? The NHLBI-Sponsored Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) Study
B. Delia Johnson, Viola Vaccarino, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Genevieve Barrow, Vera Bittner, Sheryl F. Kelsey, David S. Sheps, Thomas Rutledge, Kaki M. York, Steven E. Reis

46 Psychiatric symptoms and diagnosis of battered women in an emergency shelter in Tokyo
Toshiko Kamo, Yuri Mikami, Yoshiharu Kim, Tami Yahagita

47 Introduction of Gender and Sex Specific Medicine into the medical education curriculum in Japan
Miyuki Katai, Akihiro Sakurai, Shin Yokoyama, Noboru Watanabe, Kiyoshi Hashizume, Ikuo Konishi, Tetsuji Moriizumi

48 Use of hormonal contraceptives and risk of cancer, the NOWAC study
Merethe Kumle, Elin Alsaker, Eiliv Lund

49 Gender in medical education: The Nijmegen pilot-project
Toine LM Lagro-Janssen, Linda JL Mans, Petra Verdonk

50 Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome among Spanish adults patients in primary care center
Hen Liberman, Alfonso Munoz Urena, Carmen Imbernon Garcia, Maria Canovas Vidal, Carmen Perez-Crespo Gomez, Carmen Botias Martinez, Alfonso de Miguel Gomez, Silvia Navarro Sanchez

51 Elderly women experience lower rates of 5-year mortality following stroke in the United States
Judith Lichtman, Harlan Krumholz, Yun Wang, Lawrence Brass

52 Evaluation of sonograghy after suction curettage in mole hydatiformis
Sara Masihi, Taghi Razi, Farideh Moramezi

53 Dyspareunia: A Neglected Problem
Sara Masihi, Mojgan Barati, Farideh Moremazi

54 Relationship between Menopausal Disorders and Temporomandibular Disorders
Takahiko Matsuki, Masumi Shinichi, Ito Kayoko

55 Cesarean section rate in female doctors and male doctors’ wives
Farideh Moramezi, Mojgan Barati, Najmeh Saadati, Sara Masihi

56 Associations between work-and family-related gender-coded factors and self-assessed health status (SF-36) in female hospital workers
Doris Musshauser, Angelika Bader, Alice Chwosta, Margarethe Hochleitner

57 The effects of exercise capacity and sedentary lifestyle on hemostasis among middle-aged women with coronary heart disease
Edit Nagy, Faris Al-Kahlili, Imre Janszky, Margita Eriksson-Berg, Karin Schenck-Gustafsson

58 Gender and Sexuality in the context of Aids
Onyinye Belinda Ndubuisi

59 Gender difference of mortality in residents of a cadmium polluted area in Japan
Muneko Nishijo, Yuko Morikawa, Katsuyuki Miura, Kenji Tawara

60 Perpetuating Lineage
Nancy K. Nteere

61 Expression of pAKT and iNOS by estrogen in hippocampal slices exposed to oxygen-glucose deprivation
Eun-Mi Park, Sunghui Hong, Kyoung-Eun Lee

62 Adequacy of androgen-replacement therapy among patients with PADAM
Alexander Pechersky

63 The Expression of Receptors Steroid Hormones and PADAM
Alexander Pechersky, Vladimir Semiglazov, Boris Komyakov, Bakhman Guliev, Andrey Gorelov, Andrey Novikov, Viktor Pechersky, Nikolay Simonov, Alexey Gulyaev, Igor Samusenko, Maxim Vonsky, Alexey Mittenberg, Oleg Loran

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65 Gender related differences in patients with type 2 diabetes with or without autoantibodies to glutamic acid decarboxilase (GAD)
Paolo Pozzilli, Cristina Valeri, Antonietta Gigante, IMDIAB Group

66 Gender, Sex and Reproductive Health in Youth - an insight on Portugal state of art
Vasco Prazeres, Ana Rita Laranjeira

67 Young People Mortality - a gender insight
Vasco Prazeres, Ana Rita Laranjeira

68 Ecological correlations between estimated gender-specific disease prevalence and lifestyle as well as diet in Japan (‡T: Digestive cancer)
Dongmei Qiu, Meihua Zheng, Michiko Kurosawa, Yutaka Inaba, Yasuhiro Matsumura

69 Sex differences in the effect of stress on morphine antinociception and tolerance
A Ratka

70 Gender Differences in Complaints
Sharon Rogers

71 Gender differences in sleep, sleepiness and chronotype
Rachida Roky, Brahim Benaji, Majda Taoudi Benchekroun

72 Fertility in Norwegian women -results from population-based health surveys
Berit Rostad, Berit Schei, Johanne Sundby

73 The Effect of Exercise on Primary Dysmenrrhea
Maryam Rostami, Zahra Abbaspour and Shahnaz Najjar

74 Anthropological Gender Research: Arguments for a genderspecific medicine. An anthropological perspective
Silke Strohmenger, Kurt W. Alt

75 What makes women women? A case of discordant monozygotic twins with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome
Akiyo Sugai, Miho Fujii, Kenichiro Ikuma, Toshiaki Endo, Tsuyoshi Saito

76 Sex-specific frequency of beta-blocker related hospitalization to internal and emergency departments
Petra A. Thuermann, Sara Haack, Ulrike Werner, Jacek Szymanski, Bernd Drewelow, Marion Hippius, Werner Siegmund, Joerg Hasford

77 Female diabetic rats transplanted with equivalent numbers of islets of Langerhans regain normal glucose levels faster than male rats
Brian Tobin, Peter Uchakin

78 Translating Sex and Gender Science into Clinical Practice: National Partnerships and Local Care
Justina A. Trott, Eileen M. Hoffman

79 There is a gender difference in the relationship between metabolic syndrome and oxidative stress among Japanese
Masanobu Tsuchiya, Masako Tosaka

80 Gender in medical education: The Dutch national project
Petra Verdonk, Toine LM Lagro-Janssen

81 Acupuncture: Efficacy for Hot Flashes
Ann Vincent, Debra Barton, Jayawant Mandrekar, Stephen Cha, Teresa Zias, Dietlind Wahner-Roeder, Marina Keppler, Charles Loprinzi

82 Gender specific use of complementary and alternative medicine: Results of a survey of patients seen at different specialty areas in a Tertiary-Care Center
Dietlind L Wahner-Roedler, Peter L Elkin, Ann Vincent, Laura L Loehrer, Stephen S Cha, Brent A Bauer

83 Gender specific health effects following exposure to ethylene glycol monoethyl ether among male and female workers
Ruisheng Wang, Megumi Suda, Takeshi Honma

84 The medicalization of healthy womanhood
Michael A Weingarten

85 Sexual dysfunction in hypertensive men
Johanna Wolfram

86 Trend analysis of sex ratios of births and fetal deaths in Japan, 1899-2003
Limin Yang, Naoko Sakamoto, Eiji Marui

87 Comparison of gender differences in predictors of psychological distress in parents of children with cancer
Chao-Hsing Yeh

88 Evaluation of second curettage in reduction of persistent mole
Mahvash Zargar, Sara Masihi, Moghgan Barati

89 Gender in medical communication
Elisabeth Zemp, Benedict Martina, Joerg Leuppi, Patricia Farahmand, Michela Ceschi, Marjam Stuerchler, Annelies Haecki-Buhofer

90 Gender differences in oral health in the Swiss adult population
Elisabeth Zemp Stutz, Katharina Staehelin, Paola Coda Bertea, Nicola Zitzmann, Giorgio Menghini

91 Prevalence of renal impairment in a general population: results of the Swiss SAPALDIA cohort study
Elisabeth Zemp Stutz, Dorothea Nitsch, Ursula Ackermann-Liebrich, Arnold von Eckardstein, Jean-Michel Gaspoz, Sara H Downs, Philippe Leuenberger, Jean-Marie Tschopp, Otto Braendli, Roland Keller, Margaret W Gerbase, Nicole M Probst-Hensch,

92 Menopausal hormonal therapy and asthma-related symptoms (SAPALDIA 2)
Elisabeth Zemp Stutz, Jacqueline Wilde, Patricia Staedele, Margaret W Gerbase, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Otto Braendli, Arnold von Eckardstein, Ursula Ackermann-Liebrich

93 Ecological correlations between estimated disease prevalence and lifestyle as well as diet in Japan (‡U: Cerebrovascular disease)
Meihua Zheng, Dongmei Qiu, Michiko Kurosawa, Yutaka Inaba, Yasuhiro Matsumura

94 Sex and Neural Tube Defects
Susan Sabbagh, Maryam Radmehr, Mmasoud Fazilat

95 Use of moxonidine and its combination with hormonal replacement therapy in women with postmenopausal hypertensive disease
Gulnaz.M Dadashova, Adil.B Bakhshaliyev

96 Coping the stress of infertility treatment in females and males entering in vitro fertilization treatment
Maryam Bagheri

97 Do we reach treatment goals – differences in men and women? Changes in blood pressure from the tromso study 1994 and 2001
Anne Elise Eggen, Inger Njolstad

98 Hypoactive sexual desire: prevalence among transsexual and normally ovulating women andpossible association with androgen levels
Els Elaut, Griet De Cuypere, Petra De Sutter, Luk Gijs, Michael Van Trotsenburg, Gunter Heylens, Robert Rubens, Guy T'Sjoen