A Helping Hand Could Save An Ailing Heart
...d links between social supportstructures - such as marital status, social networks, and membership in a churchor other group - and the onset, progression and management of a variety ofconditions, including heart disease. This is the first study to show animportant relationship between both mortality and fun...Advisory: Researchers Present Work At Annual Meeting
...re similar characteristics such as age, education, marital status and contraceptive use patterns. "We are trying to answer the question of how ECP users may differ from non-users," Brown said. He is also looking at how many patients have used ECPs more than once in the two-year period and why. Did they fai...Research Shows Religion Plays A Major Role In Health, Longevity
...nts as education and income, social ties(including marital status and having friends and relatives to count on), andhealth status and behavior, including such things as smoking and alcohol use. For example, educated and better off people, who have lower mortality, were morelikely to attend church, while chur...Family Support A Factor In Cardiovascular Responses To Stress
...ardiovascular responses if one spouseperceived the marital relationship as supportive while the other did not? In terms of blood pressure changes, only what the individual believed mattered."He would be influenced by his perceptions, she would be influenced by hers, butit didn't cross over," Light says. B...Patient complaints may be harmful to GPs' health and practice
...hological problems such as burnout, depression and marital breakdowns and that support structures should be put in place to help GPs when they experience such problems. Also see linked editorial by Dr Richard Baker.......parental knowledge, under certain conditions, with marital happiness being animportant factor," Bumpus says. High paternal work demands, in combination with a less happy marriage,were associated with lower levels of parental knowledge. "Happy marriages aremore likely to be communicative marriages...UI study indicates many older adults still not receiving recommended vaccinations
...s were asked about their current health practices, marital andoccupational status, and access to health care. Of the 784 subjects who provided complete influenza vaccination information, 68percent reported getting the flu vaccine in the past year. Of the 768 people whoprovided complete pneumococcal vaccinati...Marriage rates differ only slightly in childhood cancer survivors
...normally, and have normal marital relationships," said Amanda ... the mean age at the time marital status was determinedwas 26. Rauck and her collea......u may be affected by the health of an individual's marital and non-marital relationships for health; Focusing on older adults with osteoarthritis (OA), researchers will determine if OA patients and their spousal caregivers experience greater health benefits from an educational intervention targeted at both ...The silent time bomb: divorce, health care and the baby boom generation
...nd at:Pezzin, L. E., Schone, B. S. 1999. Parental marital disruption and intergenerational transfers: an analysis of lone elderly parents and their children. Demography. 36. 3:287-297....Parenting, stress and your child's risk for alcoholism
...as a way to cope with economic stress, job stress, marital problems, and in the absence of social support. The more severe and chronic the stressor, the greater the alcohol consumption. A study in the May issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research has found a link among the rearing environment...Gender bias in salaries among Pennsylvania M.D.'s, find University of Pittsburgh researchers
... type and level of promotion, faculty appointment, marital status, number and ages of children, leave from work and salary. They also were asked about number of hours worked per week and how those hours were divided among patient care, research, patient-related paperwork, administration and teaching. Spe...Award-winning book looks at responsibility for sick babies in hospitals
...fected by the parents' gender, race, social class, marital status, age and educational backgrounds. Hospital personnel share and institutionalize their assessments as they watch to see which parents learned CPR properly, to change the colostomy bag, to suction the child with a tracheotomy. But in reality mo...Partner's presence associated with lower blood pressure
... may partially account for the association between marital status and cardiovascular health," says Brook B. Gump, Ph.D., of the State University of New York at Oswego, referring to previous studies that have shown married men and women have less heart disease. In the study of 117 subjects monitored continu...Annals of Internal Medicine, Tip Sheet, September 4, 2001
...t needed treatments: Patient's education, marital and employment status, income and medical knowledge, beliefs and attitudes Physician attitudes Severity of the patient's medical condition Health system factors, such as reimbursement, financing and availability of heart procedures Most studies ...Doctor, counselor, cost-cutter
... as well as a leading factor in domestic violence, marital conflict, child abuse, accidents and injuries. A study in the January issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research takes a method also used for smoking cessation - physician intervention - and applies it to problem drinking. "I was intere...College freshmen more politically liberal than in the past, UCLA survey reveals
...at same-sex couples should have the right to legal marital status (compared to 56 percent last year and 50.9 percent in 1997). Only one-fourth (24.9 percent) of entering students advocate laws prohibiting homosexual relationships, compared to 27.2 percent last year. This is a significant decline from the rec...Stroke news tips for Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
...iabetes, education, gender, insurance, occupation, marital status and the presence of a primary care doctor. Researchers suggest future secondary stroke prevention programs may need to incorporate ways to increase a stroke patients social support system. Bernadette M. Boden-Albala, Columbia-Presbyterian Me...Can poor growth explain link between marital status and health?
Prenatal growth, subsequent marital status, and mortality: longitudinal study BMJ Volu...early biological and social factors (birth weight, marital status of the mother, and social class at birth) and social factors in adult life (occupation, educa......gnostic factors were observed in age at diagnosis, marital status, stage of tumor, and site-specific surgical...ed the database and analyzed in this study include marital status, age at diagnosis, tumor stage, tumor histology and grade, lymph node involvement, site-speci...