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A hike in your blood pressure during middle age significantly raises the risk of having a heart attack or a stroke during your lifetime, according to new Northwestern Medicine research. The study offers a new understanding on the importance of maintaining low blood pressure early in middle age to prevent heart disease later in life. [...]
Remember when road rage was mainly triggered by rush hour traffic? Recently, I was driving in local traffic near the university when a car in front of me was signaling left and made a sudden move to the RIGHT lane. Okay, we all get confused. In the next block the driver all of a sudden [...]
Half of all stillbirths result from pregnancy disorders and conditions that affect the placenta, according to a new report. Risk factors already known at the start of pregnancy—such as previous pregnancy loss or obesity—accounted for only a small proportion of the overall risk of stillbirth. Stillbirth is the death of a baby during the second [...]
The Turkish people love to eat! My husband and I just spent 8 days visiting this interesting country and noticed that very few individuals were obese (or even overweight). There is fast food in the cities but it tends to be buffets with lots of veggies, cheese, lamb and chicken. Some form of [...]
Why do so many postmenopausal women who are treated for estrogen-sensitive breast cancer quit using drugs that help prevent the disease from recurring? The first study to actually ask the women themselves — as well as the largest, most scientifically rigorous study to examine the question — reports 36 percent of women quit early because [...]
Teresa Woodruff, Director of the Institute for Women’s Health Research (creator of this blog site) and the Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, received the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring at the White House from President Barack Obama Monday, Dec. [...]
Women who worked a rotating night shift had an increased risk of type 2 diabetes that was not completely explained by an increase in body mass index (BMI), according to results of a prospective study of women who were enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Studies. Nurses who had 1 to 10 years of night shift [...]
Women were nine times more likely to develop takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC), or “broken heart syndrome,” than men, and older women more likely than younger, researchers found. In a database that included 6,178 women, those older than 55 were 4.6 times more likely to develop the condition than younger women, reported Abhishek Deshmukh, MD, a cardiology [...]
While mammograms certainly play an important role in the early detection of breast cancer (and women have responded to this selling point), when weighed against other issues related to quality of life, this benefit becomes the question of debate among the scientific community. While researchers have ways to measure quality of life via quality-adjusted life [...]
Handling holiday stress is the focus of this month’s e-newsletter from the Institute for Women’s Health Research and can be accessed by clicking HERE. It addresses why stress is handled differently in men and women. We also thought the following tips on e-shopping might be helpful!. Now that black Friday is over, many of you [...]
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