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Feeling Hopeless Ups Stroke Risk In Healthy Women
Feelings of hopelessness are not just unfortunate for women, they are one of the major risk factors of stroke. Otherwise healthy women who are chronically hopeless are more prone to develop plague in neck arteries that can trigger stroke, according to U.S researchers.
Susan Everson-Rose of the University of Minnesota Medical School, says, “these findings indicate [...]
Testosterone Found Responsible For Belly Fat During Menopause
Belly fat or visceral fat is major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases in middle aged women. Recent studies have discovered that the main culprit is most likely not age, but the changes in testosterone levels that occurs during menopausal transition.
Imke Janssen, PhD, assistant professor of preventive medicine and the study’s lead investigator, says, ” Of [...]
New Accurate Way Of Diagnosing Endometriosis
Endometriosis, which has been estimated to affect 10-15% of women of reproductive age, is a chronic gynaecological disease in which cells from the endometrium establish themselves outside the uterus, within a woman’s pelvic area.
Apart from laproscopy, an invasive surgical procedure, which often leads to pain and discomfort for years in women, until now there was [...]
Study Says Few Birth Control Pills Are Safe
Recent studies in Denmark and Netherlands determines that some birth control pills are safer than other and neither studies received any funding from companies that manufacture oral contraceptives.
European researchers say that the composition of woman’s birth control pills influences her risk of developing deep vein thrombosis.
Earlier studies already made it clear that oral contraceptives, which [...]
Interventional Radiology Treatment Proven Safe For Uterine Fibroids
Recent reports of The New England Journal Of Medicine suggests that Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE) is an appropriate and safe non surgical treatment for women to kill tumors and painful uterine fibroids.
Scott C. Goodwin, M.D., FSIR, an interventional radiologist who co-authored the journal, says that UFE is safe, effective and also minimally invasive option for [...]
Arm Workouts May Cut Lymphedema Risk In Breast Cancer Survivors
Recent studies found that breast cancer survivors who practice weightlifting exercises are less likely to develop lymphedema symptoms than those non weightlifting peers experiencing debilitating symptoms .
Researchers found that slowly building upper body strength with weightlifting and arm exercises can relieve some of hand and arm swelling that takes place in breast cancer survivors who [...]
Women Report More Sleep Disruption Than Men, Study
University of Cincinnati researchers uncover the social factors responsible for loss of sleep in multitasking women and why women report more sleep disruptions than men.
According to the study, even with developing progress towards gender equality at both workplace and home, women continue to carry the maximum responsibilities at home and also at work, which makes [...]
Optimism Good For Women’s Heart And Longevity
According to a study published in the Journal of American Heart Association, women with optimistic attitude and positive outlook towards life may live longer and also be less likely to develop heart diseases when compared to those who take dimmer view of life.
Researchers found that among more than 97,000 U.S. women between the ages of [...]
