Diabetes a bigger heart disease risk for women than for men
...whether diabetes carries different heart risks for women than for men, said Mark Woodward, Ph.D., professor...tes had more than two and a half times the risk of women without diabetes. That translates to a greater than 50 percent excess relative risk for women than ...How often should women get mammograms?
... mortality benefits, on average, in populations of women over the course of 40 years. "We're not advocatin... American Cancer Society guidelines recommend that women age 40 and older have a screening mammogram every year and that they "should continue to do so for a...Culture-specific exercise sparks interest of older women
... 12-week Tai Chi exercise program to older Chinese women who had one major risk factor for coronary heart disease. Most exercise programs for women with coronary heart disease have high dropout rates, but 96 percent of participants completed the Ta...Many postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease don't use lifesaving aspirin therapy
...e chances of a secondary heart attack or stroke in women who already have cardiovascular disease (CVD). Yet, less than half of women with CVD use this over-the-counter, relatively inexpensive therapy, researchers reported today at th...Heart attack treatment gap may be closing for women
...ional Institute of Health funded study showed that women were just as likely as men to be discharged on rec...rs and statins as frequently as men. One in ten women with ACS, who is able to take the medicines, didn't receive aspirin or beta-blockers. Still one-thi...Women should be advised not to drink alcohol in pregnancy
...MJ. While the UK Department of Health advises that women can safely drink one or two units of alcohol per w...differences in alcohol metabolism may protect most women when drinking small quantities, add the team, but it is currently impossible to predict who is at ri...Americans support most uses of reproductive genetic testing, report on US attitudes reveals
...n are shared across most demographic groups - men, women and different racial and ethnic groups; lowest levels of support (49 percent) are found among fundamentalist and evangelical Christians. Perhaps surprisingly, a majority (52 percent) of those who assign human embryos maximum "moral worth" - deserving...The history and controversy behind post-menopausal hormone therapy
...nefits of hormone therapy (HT) for post-menopausal women with no end in sight. Roughly 45 million women in the US are post-menopausal and HT has been the predominant form of treatment for most of the twen...Female sex hormones play a vital role in defense against sexually transmitted diseases
...ys, is that if future studies can figure out that women too, like mice, are protected in primary exposure ...xually active adults is seropositive for HSV-2 and women are much more susceptible than men. "The results directly indicate that the hormonal conditions that...'Marital strain' increases women's risk of death, heart disease
ORLANDO, Feb. 17 Married women who avoid conflict with their spouses have an incr...n issues). The study included 1,769 men and 1,913 women between ages 18 and 77. Researchers conducted the baseline examinations from 198487. Of these part...Unemployed women at higher risk for cardiovascular disease
...revention in Atlanta, Ga. Researchers found that women who had become involuntarily unemployed experience...ss, depression and emotional problems. "Unemployed women who want to be employed clearly standout from the employed and homemakers as being at high risk for ...Gene signature can predict breast cancer spread
...ients are most likely to relapse. Around 60-70% of women with lymph-node negative breast cancer are cured b...s, from all age groups and tumour sizes, including women who had oestrogen receptor positive and negative breast cancer. Patients were followed up for an ave...Chlamydia testing in pharmacies: Questions that need addressing
...that the prevalence of chlamydia in black American women is over 13%. The UK Health Protection Agency has found that in 45 to 64 year old women, rates of chlamydial infection rose by 177% between 1995 and 2003. Melanie Johnson, UK public health minister, announced last week a two-year pilot scheme to offer...Folic acid recommendations have had little impact on birth defects
...in behaviour in a sufficiently large proportion of women to cause measurable effects, say the authors. These findings underscore the ongoing missed opportunities for prevention. In addition to recommending use of supplements, public health agencies and medical professionals should strongly consider impleme...Advances in Uterine Leiomyoma Research: 2nd NIH International Congress
...broids are the most common gynecologic neoplasm in women of reproductive age and the leading cause of hysterectomy in the United States. Topics to be covered include Clinical Experiences and Therapeutic Strategies, Epidemiology, Clinical Trials, Pathogenesis of Smooth Muscle Tumors, and Molecular and Genet...Brain activity of men and women during hostile or impulsive acts differs less on nicotine
...icant differences in the brain activity of men and women when engaged in a broad range of activities and be...during impulsive or hostile acts. But when men and women have nicotine in their bodies, these brain activity differences practically disappear. Among both sm...Immediate access to antibiotics stems spread of sexually transmitted diseases
...ssion and medication side effects. More than 1,800 women and heterosexual men were involved in the study, all of whom were newly diagnosed with one or both STDs and claimed at least one untreated partner within the previous 14 days. The study was conducted solely at the University of Washington in Seattle...New European cancer figures for 2004 major efforts needed against the big four killers
...tte toll heaviest on men, but increasingly also in women The overwhelming majority of lung cancer is cause...gress among men in Europe, but the situation among women and especially young women is cause for concern. There is also a great difference between Northern...Study finds no reason for expectant mothers to shy away from early epidurals
...delay the administration of epidural anesthesia in women with their first pregnancy until the cervical dila...esarean delivery." Dr. Wong's study randomized 750 women in labor with cervical dilation less than four centimeters into two groups: the early epidural group...No increase in C-sections when epidural analgesia given early in labor
... recommended that epidural analgesia be delayed in women who have not previously given birth until their ce...ed 750 full-term, nulliparous (no previous births) women in spontaneous labor, with cervical dilation less than 4 centimeters. Participants were randomized...