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WebMD recently featured an article about the top stories in women’s health. They reported the five most popular stories were: Period (menstrual) Problems Fatigue Super Foods that Women need Thyroid Problems Sex and Relationships Our own Institute for Women’s Health Research Blog featured evidence-based articles on many of these topics. In fact, judging from the [...]
While the role of alcohol consumption has been established as a risk factor for breast cancer, most of the research has focused the relationship on hormonally sensitive breast cancers. A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute takes a look at the risk of alcohol and breast cancer subtype. While the [...]
Anxiety caused by stressful events like moving or losing a job is a normal part of life. Anxiety disorders, on the other hand, are characterized by persistent, excessive and disabling fear and worry and get progressively worse if left untreated. It is estimated that anxiety disorders affect between 3 and 14 percent of older adults [...]
Study Estimates More than 600,000 Deaths Worldwide Caused by Secondhand Smoke Secondhand tobacco smoke is estimated to have caused more than 600,000 deaths and the loss of more than 10 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) worldwide in 2004, according to the first analysis of its kind. Women and children were more likely than men to [...]
Bleeding disorders refer to conditions that keep your blood from clotting properly after a cut or injury. Women generally notice a problem because of heavy or abnormal menstrual periods. Heavy bleeding or menses is one of the most common problems women report to their doctors. In the U.S., one out of every five women report [...]
Study Shows Strong Link between Obesity and Mortality The largest study of its kind has confirmed a strong association between overweight and obesity and an increased risk of death. The study also identified a range of body-mass index (BMI) at which mortality risk is lowest, confirming earlier studies indicating that people who are in the [...]
Women who report having high job strain have a 40 percent increased risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks and the need for procedures to open blocked arteries, compared to those with low job strain, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2010. In addition, job insecurity — fear of losing [...]
Hormone Therapy Use May Increase Or Decrease Dementia Risk Depending Upon Timing Compared to women never on hormone therapy, those taking hormone therapy only at midlife had a 26 percent decreased risk of dementia; while women taking HT only in late life had a 48 percent increased risk of dementia, according to Kaiser Permanente researchers. [...]
People will gain significantly less weight by middle age – especially women – if they engage in moderate to vigorous activity nearly every day of the week starting as young adults, according to new Northwestern Medicine research. Women particularly benefitted from high activity over 20 years, gaining an average of 13 pounds less than those [...]
Working mothers are two-and-a-half times as likely as working fathers to interrupt their sleep to take care of others. That is the finding of a University of Michigan study providing the first known nationally representative data documenting substantial gender differences in getting up at night, mainly with babies and small children. And women are not [...]
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