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What You Should Know Before You Schedule Your Next Doctor Appointment
Before we were able to Google our every itch and twinge and ache, we had very different relationships with our doctors. “In the early years of my career, information was something the doctor had and the patient didn’t,” Dr. Michael L. LeFevre, a professor and physician at the University of Missouri, tells The Huffington Post. Today, he says, patients bring their information to him for his input. “They want my opinion about how good the information is and what it means and how to interpret it for them in their lives.” Of course, the Internet is rife with misinformation, and sometimes a well-meaning patient will ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Dietary Fiber Intake Is Inversely Associated with Stroke Incidence in Healthy Swedish Adults Nutrition and Disease
Conclusion: These findings indicate that intake of dietary fiber, especially fruit and vegetable fibers, is inversely associated with risk of stroke.
Source: Journal of Nutrition - November 19, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Larsson, S. C., Wolk, A. Tags: Nutrition and Disease Source Type: research

Relationship Between Physical Activity and Heart Failure Risk in Women Original Articles
Conclusions— Our study shows that physical activity could protect against heart failure in women. When looking closer into different domains of physical activity, walking or biking ≥20 minutes every day was associated with the largest risk reduction of heart failure.
Source: Circulation: Heart Failure - November 18, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Rahman, I., Bellavia, A., Wolk, A. Tags: Congestive, Epidemiology Original Articles Source Type: research

Healthy diet and lifestyle and risk of stroke in a prospective cohort of women
Conclusions: These findings indicate that a low-risk lifestyle can substantially reduce the risk of stroke, especially cerebral infarction.
Source: Neurology - November 3, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Larsson, S. C., Akesson, A., Wolk, A. Tags: All Cerebrovascular disease/Stroke, Cohort studies ARTICLE Source Type: research

Fruit and vegetable intake and rate of heart failure: a population‐based prospective cohort of women
ConclusionsIn this population‐based prospective cohort study of women, higher total consumption of fruit and vegetables was inversely associated with the incidence of heart failure.
Source: European Journal of Heart Failure - November 1, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Susanne Rautiainen, Emily B. Levitan, Murray A. Mittleman, Alicja Wolk Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Available evidence suggests women with false-positive mammograms less likely to return for screening
Commentary on: Bond M, Pavey T, Welch K, et al.. Systematic review of the psychological consequences of false-positive screening mammograms. Health Technol Assess 2013;17:1–170. Implications for practice and research More research is needed to understand the implications of the distress reported by women following false-positive mammograms. Anxiety after a false-positive mammogram may affect women differently, among some women, exhibiting proactive health behaviours and others exhibiting avoidant behaviours. Brief interventions should seek to reduce distress and encourage continued cancer prevention activities. Cont...
Source: Evidence-Based Nursing - June 17, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Kilbourn, K., Martens, K. Tags: Stroke, Reproductive medicine, Breast cancer, Prevention, Screening (oncology), Surgical diagnostic tests, General surgery, Screening (public health) Women ' s health Source Type: research

Vegetarians have 'poorer quality of life' study claims
Conclusion Despite the media headlines, the results from this Austrian cross sectional survey provide no proof that vegetarians are in poorer health than meat eaters. The study has simply compared a group of people with a “vegetarian” diet with three different groups of people following “carnivorous” diets on a range of different health and lifestyle measures to see if any differences are observed. The study has numerous limitations: The cross sectional study cannot prove cause and effect and that the dietary pattern is responsible for any of these self-reported differences. In fact it is possible the associat...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 4, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Lifestyle/exercise Mental health Source Type: news

Mammographically Detectable Breast Arterial Calcification and Atherosclerosis
Breast arterial calcification (BAC), observed as an incidental finding on screening mammograms, represents degenerative calcific changes occurring in the mammary arteries, with increasing age. The aim of this review is to discuss relevant literature examining relation between BAC and atherosclerosis. After a thorough literature search, in OVID and PubMed, 199 studies were identified, of which 25 were relevant to our review. Data were abstracted from each study and statistical analysis was done, including calculation of odds ratios and construction of forest plots. A total of 35,542 patients were enrolled across 25 studies ...
Source: Cardiology in Review - February 7, 2014 Category: Cardiology Tags: Review Articles Source Type: research

Dietary exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls is associated with increased risk of stroke in women
ConclusionDietary exposure to PCBs was associated with an increased stroke risk in women, especially hemorrhagic stroke. The results provide important information regarding the risk‐benefit analysis of fish consumption, particularly for cerebrovascular disease prevention.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Source: Journal of Internal Medicine - January 16, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Charlotte Bergkvist, Maria Kippler, Susanna C. Larsson, Marika Berglund, Anders Glynn, Alicja Wolk, Agneta Åkesson Tags: Original Source Type: research

Drugs to be offered to women at high risk of breast cancer
The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has today released updated guidelines on the care of women who are at increased risk of breast cancer due to their family history. One of the main changes to the original guidance from 2004 is that NICE now recommends drug treatment with tamoxifen or raloxifene to reduce risk of breast cancer in a specific group of women who are at high risk of breast cancer and have not had the disease. They say that these treatments could help prevent breast cancer in about 488,000 women aged 35 years and older. The updated guideline has also made changes to the recommende...
Source: NHS News Feed - June 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer Medical practice QA articles Source Type: news

Surveillance for certain health behaviors among States and selected local areas - United States, 2010.
This report presents results for 2010 for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, 192 MMSAs, and 302 counties. Results: In 2010, the estimated prevalence of high-risk health behaviors, chronic diseases and conditions, access to health care, and use of preventive health services varied substantially by state and territory, MMSA, and county. In the following summary of results, each set of proportions refers to the range of estimated prevalence for the disease, condition, or behaviors, as reported by survey respondents. Adults reporting good or better health: 6...
Source: MMWR Surveill Summ - May 31, 2013 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Xu F, Town M, Balluz LS, Bartoli WP, Murphy W, Chowdhury PP, Garvin WS, Pierannunzi C, Zhong Y, Salandy SW, Jones CK, Crawford CA, Division of Behavioral Surveillance, Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services, CDC Tags: MMWR Surveill Summ Source Type: research

Even 'light' smoking may raise women's arthritis risk
Conclusion This research indicates that a relatively low level of smoking (one to seven cigarettes per day) is associated with an increased risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis compared with women who had never smoked. This adds further knowledge to previous research that has suggested that cigarette smoking is directly linked to a higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. While this study is relatively robust and its results believable, it does have limitations that should be considered. It was not clear how many women dropped out of the study. If this was a large proportion of the women who started, it could si...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer Heart/lungs Lifestyle/exercise Source Type: news

Cohort study: Long term calcium intake and rates of all cause and cardiovascular mortality
Source: BMJ Area: News Supplementation with calcium has become increasingly common but recent analyses of trials have suggested a higher risk of both ischemic heart disease and stroke with calcium supplements in women. To investigate the association between long term dietary and supplemental intake of calcium with all cause mortality as well as with cardiovascular mortality, researchers conducted a prospective longitudinal cohort study in Swedish women.   The Swedish mammography cohort, established in 1987-90, provided the data for the purposes of this study. Women were born between 1914 and 1948 and followed-up ...
Source: NeLM - News - February 13, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news

Health maintenance in women.
Abstract The health maintenance examination is an opportunity to focus on disease prevention and health promotion. The patient history should include screening for tobacco use, alcohol misuse, intimate partner violence, and depression. Premenopausal women should receive preconception counseling and contraception as needed, and all women planning or capable of pregnancy should take 400 to 800 mcg of folic acid per day. High-risk sexually active women should be counseled on reducing the risk of sexually transmitted infections, and screened for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. All women should be screened for huma...
Source: American Family Physician - January 1, 2013 Category: Primary Care Authors: Riley M, Dobson M, Jones E, Kirst N Tags: Am Fam Physician Source Type: research