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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 ...

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created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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.

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created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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 ...

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created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds no relationship between PCR rate and race in women with breast cancer

Locally advanced breast cancer patients who received the same class of neoadjuvant chemotherapy were found to have no evidence of disease at the time of their surgery, or achieved pathological complete response, at the same ...

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created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

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created May 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Women, minorities face special hurdles in job market

A new study from North Carolina State University shows that white men receive significantly more tips about job opportunities than women and racial minorities - particularly among people in upper management positions - highlighting ...

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created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

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 ...

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created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chubby hubby is common, but ethnicity matters

(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.

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

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created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

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created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

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created Oct 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Younger black women more likely to have regular doctor, feel cared for

(PhysOrg.com) -- Younger black women are more likely to have a regular doctor -- and are more likely to feel cared for by that doctor -- than younger white women and women of other ethnic groups, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln ...

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created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Preterm births rise 36 percent since early 1980s

New government statistics confirm that the decades-long rise in the United States preterm birth rate continues, putting more infants than ever at increased risk of death and disability.

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created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0