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Women's Health News Cancer risks for urban African-American women grow, healthy diets more difficult to maintain
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Women living in the inner city have difficulty meeting dietary goals that could help prevent cancer, according to a report from Johns Hopkins University researchers.
Osteoporosis linked to depression and responsible for more fractures than first thought
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According to new research from the U.S. women who are suffering from depression may have an increased risk of osteoporosis.
Unprecedented increase in the use of radiologic exams on pregnant women
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The past decade has seen an unprecedented increase in the use of radiologic exams on pregnant women, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Factors identified to predict hip fracture in postmenopausal women
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A clinical model that includes 11 factors has been developed to help predict the 5-year risk of hip fracture in postmenopausal women, according to a study in the November 28 issue of JAMA.
Model provides risk factors for hip fractures in older women
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Experts say there are around 329,000 hip fractures in postmenopausal women in the United States each year and up to 24% of hip fracture patients over 50 die within one year of the injury because of complications related to the injury itself or the extended recovery period.
Pregnant women may be having too many high-tech scans
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A new study has found that pregnant women are having more high-tech imaging examinations and are thereby exposing their babies to higher doses of radiation than a decade ago.
City life raises a woman's risk of breast cancer
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According to a new study city living increases a woman's risk for breast cancer.
Cultural differences in understanding of mammography
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Black and Hispanic women have a different understanding of screening mammography compared with that of Caucasian women, according to the findings of a Boston University Medical Center survey presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
High-glycemic index carbs linked to greater type 2 diabetes risk in Chinese and African-American women
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Eating foods high on the glycemic index, which measures the effect of carbohydrates on blood glucose levels, may be associated with the risk for developing type 2 diabetes in Chinese women and in African-American women, according to two studies in the November 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons prior to pregnancy could limit offspring's fertility
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A study by a research team at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital suggests that mothers who are exposed to certain toxic environmental compounds prior to pregnancy could limit their offspring's fertility.
Smoking and depression often go hand-in-hand for new mothers
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Smoking and depression often go hand-in-hand for new mothers, according to a study in the November 2007 issue of Preventive Medicine by Temple University researcher Dr. Robert Whitaker.
Premenopausal women with depression have less bone mass
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Premenopausal women with even mild depression have less bone mass than do their nondepressed peers, a study funded in part by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), shows.
City women have denser breasts, making them more likely to develop breast cancer
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Breast tissue in women may be fatty or glandular or a mixture of both. Women with more glandular breasts show denser tissue on a mammogram and are known to have nearly four times the risk of developing breast cancer than women with fatty breasts.
Top priorities for breast cancer research
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The key priorities that will impact on the future treatment of breast cancer have been identified by a group of experts on the disease.
Pregnant women pass on the effects of smoking
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Smoking during pregnancy has many adverse effects on fetal development.
Threat women face from vascular disease not widely understood
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Though arterial vascular disease is widespread and often deadly among older American women, doctors too often fail to spot and treat it, according to a new report by a team of vascular surgeons from the Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical College campuses of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
New mums short on sleep pile on the pounds
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A new study has found that mothers who only manage to get five hours or less sleep each night are three times more likely to hang on to that extra weight gained in pregnancy, while women who slept seven hours a night or more lost more weight.

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