News tagged with obese women
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Obesity increases the risk of fetal and infant death, and the risk of complications after hysterectomy
Women who are obese during early pregnancy have a significantly increased risk of their baby dying before, during or up to one year after birth, according to research published in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal ...
Apr 06, 2011 |
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Smoking did not influence breast cancer risk among obese women: study
Smoking increases the risk of breast cancer, but the risk differs by obesity status in postmenopausal women, according to data from an analysis of the Women's Health Initiative observational study.
Apr 03, 2011 |
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Nearly 1 in 4 postmenopausal women with fractures is obese
Obesity is widely believed to be protective against fracture, although a recent study has documented a high prevalence of obesity in postmenopausal women with fragility fracture.
Mar 25, 2011 |
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Obese and overweight women, children underestimate true weight
Overweight and obese mothers and their children think they weigh less than their actual weight, according to research reported at the American Heart Association's Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism/Cardiovascular ...
Medicine & Health / Overweight and Obesity
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Mother's obesity may lead to infertility in the next generation
Levels of the hormone ghrelin are low in obese women and a recent study accepted for publication in Endocrinology, a publication of The Endocrine Society, reports that mice whose mothers had low ghrelin levels were less f ...
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Less weight gain found among African-American women in dense urban areas
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine's (BUSM) Slone Epidemiology Center have found that African-American women who live in more densely populated urban areas gain less weight than those in more sprawling ...
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Intervention helps women manage weight during and after pregnancy
Excessive weight gain isn't healthy at any stage of life, but during pregnancy it can do lasting harm to the mother and baby alike. Now researchers at Brown University and The Miriam Hospital are encouraged by a new study ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Obese women may be less likely to develop glaucoma
Obesity may be associated with higher eye pressure and a decreased risk of open-angle glaucoma in women but not men, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the May issue of Archives of Ophthalmology.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Severely obese women may need to gain less weight during pregnancy
Extremely obese women may not need to gain as much weight during pregnancy as current guidelines suggest, according to a new study presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine annual meeting.
Feb 12, 2011 |
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Obese women less likely to complete mammograms and more likely to report pain with the procedure
Obese women may avoid mammograms because of pain and women under 60 may avoid the test because they are too busy, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research published online in the Journal of Wo ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Nearly 25 percent of overweight women misperceive body weight
A startling number of overweight and normal weight women of reproductive age inaccurately perceive their body weight, affecting their weight-related behaviors and making many vulnerable to cardiovascular and other obesity-related ...
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Prepared meals and incentivized weight-loss program for obese and overweight women
In another article being released early online, Cheryl L. Rock, Ph.D., R.D., from Moores UCSD Cancer Center, La Jolla, Calif., and colleagues, conducted a randomized controlled trial of weight loss and weight maintenance ...
Oct 09, 2010 |
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Vitamin D protects against obesity-induced endometrial cancer, researchers say
Findings from an animal study suggest that obese women can reduce their increased risk of endometrial disease if they take vitamin D supplements, say researchers at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Overcoming childhood obesity means addressing mom's weight issues as well
The information gap and general lack of understanding of obesity's unique and disproportionate impact on women contributes to the challenges of the 65 million American women who are considered overweight or obese, said the ...
Jul 21, 2010 |
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Preterm births higher among overweight and obese mothers
Overweight and obese women are at greater risk of giving birth to a preterm baby compared with normal weight women, finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today.
Jul 21, 2010 |
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