News tagged with hispanic women
Study finds residence in US a risk factor for preterm birth
In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report findings that indicate that duration of stay in the United States ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Most people fudge numbers on weight and height surveys
When people in the U.S. are asked to provide their weight for research surveys, they underestimate their weight and overestimate their height, despite numerous public reports about increasing rates of obesity. ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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More US women having twins; rate at 1 in 30 babies
More U.S. women are having twins these days. The reason? Older moms and fertility treatments.
Jan 04, 2012 |
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Breast cancer mortality higher in Hispanic women
Hispanic women are more likely to die from breast cancer than non-Hispanic white women, according to research presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 6-10, 2011.
Dec 08, 2011 |
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First-time divorce rate tied to education, race
New research from the National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) at Bowling Green State University shows there is substantial variation in the first-time divorce rate when it is broken down by race and education. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Modeling disparities may help with cervical cancer prevention
Researchers reported that explicit inclusion of disparities in cost-effectiveness analysis, would allow policy makers to identify strategies that would reduce overall cancer risk, reduce disparities between racial ethnic ...
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Race matters when recruiting, retaining undergraduate women engineers
Attempts to recruit and retain more women in undergraduate engineering programs often lump all female students into a single group. At best, minority women as a group may receive special attention.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 19, 2011 |
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Women's risk of heart disease after gestational diabetes differs by race
New research finds that gestational diabetes, or pregnancy-related diabetes, may not raise the risk of heart disease independent of other cardiovascular risk factors except in certain high-risk populations, such as Hispanics. ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Jun 06, 2011 |
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Study finds breast cancer incidence rates no longer declining in US women
A sharp decline in breast cancer incidence rates among non-Hispanic white women in the U.S. after a dramatic drop in the use of postmenopausal hormone therapy did not continue through 2007, according to a new study from the ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Black, hispanic women with breast cancer face treatment delays
At a time when access to prompt treatment might affect survival, a large new study finds that African-American and Hispanic women newly diagnosed with breast cancer often face delays in care of more than a ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Breast cancer diagnostic delay depends more on race than insurance
Race and ethnicity appeared to affect diagnostic delay more than insurance status for women with breast abnormalities, as revealed by data presented at the Third American Association for Cancer Research Conference on The ...
Oct 03, 2010 |
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Leisure-time physical activity benefits some more than others
It may seem intuitive that greater amounts of exercise lead to less obesity, but an Indiana University study has found that this conventional wisdom applies primarily to white women. The findings draw attention ...
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Study: More physical activity leads to less obesity -- often, but not always
It may seem intuitive that greater amounts of exercise lead to less obesity, but an Indiana University study has found that this conventional wisdom applies primarily to white women. The findings draw attention not only to ...
May 20, 2010 |
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Breast cancer risk factors differ among races
A new study finds that factors known to increase the risk of breast cancer among white women have less influence in Hispanic women. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Societ ...
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Researchers find ethnicity key to accurate obesity measurements
The current National Institutes of Health body mass index cutoff values for obesity are too high for many reproductive-age women in the U.S. and should be adjusted to account for ethnic differences in body composition to ...
Apr 21, 2010 |
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