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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"post-menopausal women"”.
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Weight Fluctuation and Cancer Risk in Post-Menopausal Women: The Women's Health Initiative
… of breast, endometrial, and colorectal cancer in postmenopausal women.
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Lifetime stress, blood pressure, heart rate, and salivary cortisol levels in post-menopausal women
Post-menopausal women are a unique group who may be at increased risk for the development of coronary heart disease. As such, more research is needed to understand the physiology of these women. This study had two purposes. The first was to assess the effects of past stress levels on blood pressure …
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Assessing calcium absorption from fortified soymilk and fermented fortified soymilk in osteopenic post menopausal women
… soymilk (CFSM) compared to cows’ milk in post menopausal women, and to investigate ways of optimising the calcium bioavailability from commercially available CFSM. The project consisted of two parts: in vitro studies and the in vivo clinical studies.
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Relationship of Anger Trait and Anger Expression to C-Reactive Protein in Post-Menopausal Women
… is the leading cause of death in American women, accounting for one in six deaths in 2004. One third of women over the age of forty will develop coronary heart disease in their lifetime. The role of chronic and excessive inflammation and risk factors, such as smoking and high cholesterol, …
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Best Practice to Promote Bone Health in Post-menopausal Women through Adequate Intake of Calcium and Vitamin D
<p>BEST PRACTICE TO PROMOTE BONE HEALTH IN POST-MENOPAUSAL WOMEN THROUGH ADEQUATE INTAKE OF </p> <p>CALCIUM AND VITAMIN D </p> <p>Ellen S. Adkins, BSN, RN </p> <p>College of Nursing </p> <p>University of South Carolina </p> <p>Doctor of Nursing Practice degree </p> <p>ABSTRACT</p> <p> Osteoporosis …
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The Impact of Mood Disorders on Cognitive Function in Post-menopausal Women Undergoing Treatment for Early-stage Breast Cancer
<p>PURPOSE: Many post-menopausal women who are treated for early-stage breast cancer report experiencing cognitive difficulties following adjuvant chemotherapy. However, the generalizability of the results of a number of studies that have attempted to document the association between adjuvant …
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Comparison of moderate-and low-fat reduced energy diets on weight loss and body composition in post-menopausal women with android obesity
… ratio (WHR). Twenty-eight abdominally obese, postmenopausal females consumed either a 1200 kcal moderate fat diet consisting of 30 to 32% of total calories from fat (MFD; N = 16), or a 1200 kcal low fat diet with 20 to 22% of calories supplied from fat (LFD; N- 12). Prior to weight loss, all …
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Metabolism of progesterone
… by Human Subjects: Introduction: (1) Healthy Post -Menopausal Women (2) Healthy Young Men (3) Oestrogen pre-treated Post-Menopausal Women (4) Hysterectomised Post-Menopausal Women (5) Hypertensive Cases (6) Administration of Pregnanediol or Sodium pregnanediol glucuronidate (7) Continued Daily …
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Women's Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Hormone Replacement Therapy
<p>A women's life expectancy has increased from 65 years in 1940 to 80 years in 1993 (Health United States, 1996). Despite this, the average age of menopause has remained constant at approximately the age of 50. Most woman can expect to spend a third of their lives in the post menopausal years. An …
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Regulation of Micrornas by 17β-Estradiol in the Aging Female Brain
… to increase the 17β-estradiol (E2) levels in women who are going through the menopausal transition to alleviate the negative symptoms associated with menopause and decrease the risk of chronic diseases. Clinical and basic science research had previously shown that HT provided protection from …
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The molecular actions of medroxyprogesterone acetate on androgen receptor signalling and the promotion of breast cancer.
The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trial was the first randomised, double blind, placebo-controlled disease prevention trial to demonstrate epidemiological evidence of a casual link between the use of combined hormone replacement therapy (cHRT) comprising conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) …
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Investigation into the Vasomotor Signs and Symptoms of the Menopause
The mechanism of the menopausal hot flush was investigated. Physiological changes, as well as changes in plasma and whole blood pharmacological activity were examined in post-menopausal women, at rest and during a hot flush, and in a group of pre-menopausal controls, at rest and during heat induced …
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Novel studies of fat and nutrient intakes and the risk of human cancers
… vivo</italic> lipid peroxidation was compared in post-menopausal women following a low-fat diet or a low-fat diet supplemented with 3% of energy from omega-3 fatty acids; the latter diet significantly increased <italic>in vivo</italic> lipid peroxidation. In the second study, a urinary biomarker …
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Rooibos tea flavonoids increase mineral content in human osteoblast-like cells
… tea consumption and bone mineral density in post-menopausal women. Rooibos tea contains no caffeine and is a rich source of flavonoids such as rutin, orientin, hyperoside and luteolin. These flavonoids have similar structures to estradiol, and therefore may act as estrogen mimics to promote …
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Cardiovascular Disease: Prevention and Management
… vascular events (venous thromboembolism) in women taking hormone therapy (HT).1–3 However, these drugs have little effect on heart failure outcomes, an important source of morbidity and mortality in the United States. This dissertation will have two projects concerning statin effectiveness …
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Postmenopause: womens' experiences
… to a) increase knowledge and understanding of women's experiences of post-menopause and b) to identify common elements and themes women experience in this particular life phase. Data were collected via open-ended semi-structured interviews between 40 and 70 minutes, with post-menopausal women. …
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Spectroscopic characterization of iron-oxygen intermediates in human aromatase (CYP19A1)
… malignancies of the breast tissue, especially in post menopausal women. In fact, aromatase inhibitors constitute the front line therapy for estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer in post-menopausal women which accounts for over 70% of all breast cancer cases in the United States. Starting …
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Using finite element models under multiple loading conditions to improve the association between radius and tibia microarchitecture and prevalent osteoporotic vertebral fracture
… at the tibia and radius were collected from post-menopausal women with prevalent vertebral fracture and healthy controls, from which microarchitecture and finite element outcomes (Pistoia failure load, apparent modulus) were calculated. At the tibia, a one standard deviation increase in …
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The bond of silence : women in the transition to the second half of life
Adulthood, and particularly, women's adult developmental stages are still an undeveloped area of research (Levinson, 1978; Chiriboga, 1981, 1989). There are studies about the menopause, the "empty nest syndrome", the "double standard" of aging, as well as middle-aged women's need for growth and …
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