Age, ethnicity, income impact exercise habits of elderly
...gage in physical exercise than youngerpersons, and females had lower confidence that they could engage in physicalactivity than males. African-American males, with incomes of more than $1,000 amonth, had the greatest confidence in their ability to engage in physicalactivity among all the participants. Ind...Federal agencies report on nation's children
... 17, which dropped from 38.7 live births per 1,000 females in 1991 to32.1 in 1997. Regarding education, a higher percentage of children ages 3 to 4 wereenrolled in preschool in 1997 than in 1996--48 percent, compared to 45 percent. Preschool enrollment increased most among black, non-Hispanic childr...Effects of nicotine influenced by housing and gender
...ed to find anxiety-provoking. Specifically, among females wholived in groups, nicotine increased time spent in the center, suggesting thatthese animals experienced reduced anxiety as a result of nicotineadministration. "Our studies with rats may reflect human sex differences in reasons for smoking. For ex...British Adolescents Need Government Support To Help Clean Up Their Act
...ite significantly between 1995-6. In 1996 teenage females accounted for 20 per cent of all pregnancy terminations and nine per cent of births. Girls aged 16-19 years had the highest rates of gonorrhoea, genital chlamydia infection and warts, of all women. These findings lead the authors to conclude that t...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...lysis names a physicaldifference between males and females interpreted through the lens of genderideology, appears a misnomer. The Yellow Emperor's body has no sex, onlygender." Furth writes that "rather than labeling a gender which is defined on othergrounds, yin and yang are the foundation on which the lan...Neurobiologists Show How The Brain Processes Signals From Pheromones
...lfactory system mayshow that, for instance, virgin females will have wiring patterns similar to oneanother but different from those of sexually experienced females. Mombaerts also thinks that there is a stochastic, or random, element to theasymmetry observed in the glomeruli of the accessory olfactory system...Sex And Survival: In Some Matters Of The Heart Women Have The Edge
...women with CHF. Men with CHF were more likely than females to be Caucasian, to haveatherosclerosis as the primary cause of their condition, to have less severeCHF, and less dobutamine use. Men with nonischemic heart disease were three times more likely thanfemales to die during the first year-and-a-h......eraction and the development of relationships (49% females to 23%males) to visual erotica (50% males to 23% females). Most individuals reportedthat they go on line for sexual pursuits from home (78.8%); 5.8 percent admittedusing an office computer; and 12.7 percent said they do both. In addition,most ind...Debilitating Body Image Disorder Often Begins In Teens; Likely To Be Missed
... Psychiatry. The study consisted of 30 females and three males, aged 6 to 17. It isestimated that BDD begins before age 18 in 70 percent of cases, most commonly at age 13. The subjects hadbeen referred for evaluation and treatment to a BDD clinical and research program at Butler Hospi...Medication Offers Hope For Relief From Burning Mouth Pain
... subject was an 83-year-old male and the rest were females age 45 to 87(with a median age of 65). The patients began taking 0.25 mg of clonazepam at bedtime for one week and could increase thedaily dose by as much as 0.25 mg each week, up to a total dosage of 3 mg. "Patients were carefully instructed about i...Jefferson Physician Warns Further Study Of DHEA's Safety Needed
...that blood testosterone measurements rose in most females given DHEA, and in some cases, doubled their male hormone levels. This, in turn, can result in acne, unsightly facial hair, irregular menstruation and loss of scalp hair. Dr. Goldberg strongly recommends that men taking DHEA supplements have their...New Elementary School Program Lowers Cardiovascular Risks In Children
...h Carolina. There were equal numbers of males and females in the study, and the racial distribution mirrored that of the States population (19% African- American, 77% Caucasian, 4% other). The classroom-wide intervention group received instruction twice a week, provided by regular classroom teachers. The c......wledge of warning signs in that only 19 percent of females did not knowany warning signs (compared to 33.1 percent in the first study). There was onlya slight change in the males surveyed. The American Heart Association has developed a similar program -- theMetro Stroke Task Force -- which is being ...Study Finds Incidence Of Stroke Over 40 Percent Higher Than Previously Stated Figures
...red to white males, and71 percent higher for black females than for white females, according to theAmerican Heart Association's new Heart and Stroke Statistical Update. In the new study, designed to be the first large, population-basedinvestigation of trends in stroke incidence rates and outcome wit...... - the diseasewomen fear most - was 27.5 for black females and 20.5 percent for white females.The death rate per 100,000 persons for coronary heart disease was 81.6 for blackfemales and 60.3 for white females. Q/nmr/1998NewYearRelease/fw...