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Among postmenopausal women, the risk of hip fractures increases steeply with age and is seven times higher in 70-year-olds than in 50-year-olds, according to a study in this week`s PLoS Medicine.
The study also found that in women aged 50-54 years (i.e. around the time of menopause), although hip fractures are rare, the risk of a [...]
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Depression occurs in as many as one-third of patients after a stroke, and women are at somewhat higher risk, according to a large new review of studies. Post-stroke depression is associated with greater disability, reduced quality of life and an increased risk of death.
The systematic review appears in the November-December issue of the journal Psychosomatics.
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Nearly 50 percent of women surveyed indicate they experience pain symptoms 2 to 3 years after breast cancer treatment, with women who were younger or who received supplemental radiation therapy more likely to have pain, according to a study in the November 11 issue of JAMA.
Persistent postsurgical pain has been shown to be clinically relevant [...]
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Heart attacks appear to have become more common in middle-aged women over the past two decades, but all women and especially those younger than 55 have recently experienced a greater increase than men in their chances of survival following such a heart event, according to two reports in the October 26 issue of Archives of [...]
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Middle-aged women with high levels of a specific amino acid in their blood are twice as likely to suffer from Alzheimer`s many years later, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. This discovery this could lead to a new and simple way of determining who is at risk long [...]
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Racial discrimination is a major threat to African American women`s mental health. It undermines their view of themselves as masters of their own life circumstances and makes them less psychologically resilient and more prone to depression. These findings (1) by Dr. Verna Keith, from Florida State University in the US and her colleagues, are published [...]
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The odds triple for premature child delivery pregnant women with a history of depression who used psychiatric medication, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of Washington, University of Michigan and Michigan State University found that a combination of medication use and depression — either before or during pregnancy — was strongly linked to [...]
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Nearly 4.5 million people suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in our country, and more than half of them are women, according to the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md. As the general population continues to age, this number is expected to increase significantly over the next few decades.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form [...]
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A type of benign breast disease (BBD) known as atypical hyperplasia substantially increases a young woman`s risk of developing breast cancer, even if there is no history of breast cancer in her family, say researchers at Mayo Clinic.
The investigators, who presented their findings at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center-American Association for Cancer Research (CTRC-AACR) [...]
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) alternated with mammography at six-month intervals can detect breast cancers not identified by mammography alone, a research team from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center will report at the 31st at the CRTC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
MRI is known to be more sensitive in detecting breast cancers [...]
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