Filtered By:
Condition: Menopause
Cancer: Cancer
This page shows you your search results in order of date.
Order by Relevance | Date
Total 256 results found since Jan 2013.
PCOS during the menopausal transition and after menopause: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Hum Reprod Update. 2023 Jun 23:dmad015. doi: 10.1093/humupd/dmad015. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Current knowledge about the consequences of PCOS during the late reproductive years and after menopause is limited.OBJECTIVE AND RATIONALE: We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of data on the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of women ≥45 years of age-peri- or postmenopausal-with PCOS.SEARCH METHODS: Studies published up to 15 April 2023, identified by Entrez-PubMed, EMBASE, and Scopus online facilities, were considered. We included cross-sectional or pro...
Source: Cancer Control - June 24, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Mercedes Mill án-de-Meer Manuel Luque-Ram írez L ía Nattero-Chávez H éctor F Escobar-Morreale Source Type: research
7 Myths About Cholesterol, Debunked
You may not recall every lab value from your last physical, but you probably remember one: Your cholesterol level.
If it’s higher than ideal, you’re not alone. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2015 and 2018, almost 12% of U.S. adults ages 20 and up had high total cholesterol, defined as above 240 mg/dL. The type that physicians mostly worry about is LDL (or “bad”) cholesterol, which is one component of that total.
Why do doctors care so much about cholesterol? First, “it predicts risk,” says Dr. Jeffrey Berger, a cardiologist and director of the C...
Source: TIME: Health - June 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine Hobson Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
Women's reproductive traits and cerebral small-vessel disease: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study
CONCLUSION: Our findings do not convincingly support a causal effect of women's reproductive factors on CSVD. Future studies are warranted to investigate specific estrogen-related physiological changes in women, which may inform current researchers on the causal mechanisms involved in cerebral small-vessel disease progression.PMID:37064189 | PMC:PMC10098092 | DOI:10.3389/fneur.2023.1064081
Source: Cancer Control - April 17, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Zhenqian Wang Jiawen Lu Weipin Weng Jie Zhang Source Type: research
Associations of Plasma 25-Hydroxy Vitamin D and Dietary Vitamin D Intake with Insulin Resistance in Healthy Japanese Women
J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo). 2023;69(1):46-52. doi: 10.3177/jnsv.69.46.ABSTRACTWe investigated the associations of plasma 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25(OH)D) concentration and the dietary intake of vitamin D with insulin resistance in Japanese women. Study participants were 406 Japanese women attended a health examination. They were not taking hormones or medications for diabetes and had no history of cancer, ischemic heart disease, or stroke. Information regarding medical history and lifestyle factors was obtained by a self-administered questionnaire, while hours of sun exposure were determined through interviews. Dietary int...
Source: Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology - March 1, 2023 Category: Nutrition Authors: Sachi Koda Keiko Wada Michiyo Yamakawa Yuma Nakashima Makoto Hayashi Noriyuki Takeda Keigo Yasuda Chisato Nagata Source Type: research
