News tagged with white women
Chubby hubby is common, but ethnicity matters
Dec 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study helps untangle how marriage, gender and ethnicity are related to body weight. The study of almost 8,000 men and women will be published in the journal Obesity.
Marriage, family on the decline for highly educated black women
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 08, 2009 |
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Fewer black women with postgraduate degrees are getting married and having children, according to research to be presented at the 104th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Low levels of vitamin D linked to common vaginal infection in pregnant women
May 22, 2009 |
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Pregnant women with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from bacterial vaginosis (BV) - a common vaginal infection that increases a woman's risk for preterm delivery, according to a University of Pittsburgh ...
Study quantifies racial disparities in cancer mortality rates between blacks and whites
Mar 20, 2009 |
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African Americans have a shorter life expectancy than whites, and cancer plays a major role in this disparity. African Americans are more prone to get cancer; they tend to present at a later, deadlier stage; and they have ...
Black women have double the risk of pregnancy complications
Mar 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Black Caribbean and black African women in the UK have twice as much risk of experiencing severe pregnancy complications than white women, according to University of Oxford research.
Black women with uterine cancers more likely to die than white patients
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Black women with cancers of the uterus are less likely to survive the disease than white women, and relatively little progress has been made over the past two decades to narrow this racial difference. That is the conclusion ...
Risk of breast cancer mutations underestimated for Asian women, study shows
Sep 11, 2008 |
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Oncologist Allison Kurian, MD, and her colleagues at the Stanford University School of Medicine were perplexed. Computer models designed to identify women who might have dangerous genetic mutations that increase their risk ...
Asians prefer melting pot neighbourhoods
Sep 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Asian families prefer to live in cosmopolitan neighbourhoods rather than in segregated communities – according to a report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Charted Institute of Housing.
