The sports and recreation industry is emerging in Taiwan. Few related studies have used it as a sample. This study has been designed to explore the notion of personality traits based on fitness center members in Taiwan. Because of its validity and wide use (Furnham, Moutafi, & Crump, 2003), the Five Factor Model (FFM) developed by McCrae and John (1992) is adopted in this study to assess the personality of fitness center members. The measurement scale of personality traits is cited from Saucier's (1994) Mini-Markers. The empirical findings reveal that those people with low tendency to experience negative emotions, i.e., neuroticism, and high tendency to experience positive emotions, i.e., extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, will join the fitness center. Sports and recreation industry managers can design strategy to satisfy their customer needs based on these findings.

(1) Background: Certain non-biological factors are suspected to explain the reduced sex difference in cardiovascular risk after diabetes. This study aimed to assess whether physician characteristics may account for such reduced sex difference. (2) Methods: Totally 10,105 type 2 diabetes patients (including 4962 men and 5143 women) were selected from Taiwan’s National Health Insurance claim data. The three-year period following the first day of clinical visit for type 2 diabetes in 2000 was set as the baseline period. The follow-up was made from the first day after baseline period to date of ischemic heart disease (IHD) incidence or censoring. Cox regression model was used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) of IHD in relation to physician’s characteristics. (3) Results: The incidence of IHD for men and women was estimated at 17.47 and 15.96 per 1000 person-years, respectively. After controlling for socio-demographic variables and co-morbidity, male patients experienced a significantly higher HR than females for IHD (1.16, 95% Confidence Interval (CI) 1.04 to 1.29). Further adjustment for treatment adherence/continuity and physician characteristics resulted in essentially the same results. (4) Conclusions: Our study provides little support for the notation that physician characteristics may contribute to the reduced sex difference in IHD incidence in patients with type 2 diabetes.