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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: weight gain + after menopause + risk  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/13/2008)

Diet by the decades
Globe and Mail, Canada - May 6, 2008
Tailoring food intake to keep up with a woman's changing body can prevent vitamin deficiencies and unwanted weight gain, and help guard against chronic ...
USN Current Issue
U.S. News & World Report, DC - May 8, 2008
While most of us know that overindulging isn't good for our health, what exactly do we gain or lose from that daily beer after work? ...
Smile - happiness is good for you
Canada.com, Canada - May 6, 2008
Studies have linked stress to weight gain and diabetes, while depression has been linked to everything from an increased risk of osteoporosis to dementia to ...
Heart Disease Risks Hit Boys in Teens
Washington Post, United States - Apr 21, 2008
"We knew that women had extra protection from cardiovascular disease, and we knew it disappeared after menopause," she said. "This adds further weight to ...
Chocolate may reduce preeclampsia risk for women
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - May 4, 2008
The condition can cause swelling, sudden weight gain, headaches and vision problems. About 4% of the women in the study developed preeclampsia. ...
Sound help for mums-to-be
The Star, UK - May 5, 2008
But even though there's a lot of focus on weight gain and loss in pregnancy health charities say the emphasis should be on seeing this time as an ...
Everyday pollutants and breast cancer
Straight Goods, Canada - Apr 15, 2008
... enough evidence of risk factors that can be modified ? exposure to ionizing radiation, alcohol use, physical inactivity, weight gain after menopause and ...

Daily Mail
Regain your sexual confidence: How to embrace our more experienced ...
Daily Mail, UK - Apr 26, 2008
While hormones undoubtedly influence women's sexual feelings as they age - causing loss of desire, dryness, natural weight gain and so on - Dr Patricia Koch ...
The 10 percent solution
Greenville News, SC - Apr 14, 2008
Women sometimes believe hormonal changes during menopause cause weight gain, but research doesn?t bear that out. Instead, it appears that the middle-age ...
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Dual effects of weight and weight gain on breast cancer risk -
Z Huang, SE Hankinson, GA Colditz, MJ Stampfer, DJ … - JAMA, 1997 - Am Med Assoc
... to breast cancer incidence before menopause, but was positively associated with
incidence after menopause. This increased risk with weight gain was limited to ...

Risk of Menopause During the First Year After Breast Cancer Diagnosis -
PJ Goodwin, M Ennis, KI Pritchard, M Trudeau, N … - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 1999 - jcojournal.org
... body size, measured as BMI or weight (data not shown), did not predict menopause.
In contrast, weight gain during the year after diagnosis, measured as BMI ...

Weight Gain as a Risk Factor for Clinical Diabetes Mellitus in Women -
GA Colditz, WC Willett, A Rotnitzky, JAE Manson - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1995 - annals.highwire.org
... In summary, weight gain of even 7.0 to 10.9 kg after age 18 years ... Cigarette smoking
relative to weight and menopause. Am J Epidemiol. 1983; 117:651-8. 10. ...

Association of Gain and Loss of Weight before and after Menopause with Risk of Postmenopausal Breast … -
M Harvie, A Howell, RA Vierkant, N Kumar, JR … - Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, 2005 - AACR
... the association of changes in weight (loss or gain in excess of 5% of body weight)
using two ... and (b) age 30 years to menopause and after the menopause ...

Body size indices and breast cancer risk before and after menopause. -
S Franceschi, A Favero, C La Vecchia, AE Baron, E … - Int J Cancer, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... The apparent relationship with BMI at middle age and weight gain between age ... of the
association between BMI and breast cancer risk after menopause may reflect ...

Changes in Energy Balance and Body Composition at Menopause: A Controlled Longitudinal Study -
ET Poehlman, MJ Toth, AW Gardner - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1995 - annals.highwire.org
... composition, they found greater weight gain in women ... several metabolic and
cardiovascular risk factors that ... fat in women immediately after menopause begins [ ...

Adjuvant Treatment and Onset of Menopause Predict Weight Gain After Breast Cancer Diagnosis -
PJ Goodwin, M Ennis, KI Pritchard, D McCready, J … - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 1999 - jco.ascopubs.org
... Long-term survival following relapse after 5-FU ... incidence of overweight and major
weight gain in US ... C, Christiansen C: Age- and menopause-associated variations ...

CHARACTERISTICS THAT PREDICT RISK OF BREAST CANCER BEFORE AND AFTER THE MENOPAUSE -
RS PAFFENBARGER, JB KAMPERT, HWAGAN CHANG - American Journal of Epidemiology, 1980 - Oxford Univ Press
... cies, particularly postmenopausal cancer, even after adjustment is ... classified by
Quetelet's index (weight/height 2 ... interview, and for index gain between these ...

Anthropometry and breast cancer. Body size--a moving target. -
R Ballard-Barbash - Cancer, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... The timing of weight gain also appears to influence breast cancer risk; increased
relative weight and weight gain after menopause have been associated with the ...

… and Postmenopausal Women and Its Association With Risk Factors Measured After Menopause -
K Sutton-Tyrrell, HC Lassila, E Meilahn, C Bunker, … - Stroke, 1998 - Am Heart Assoc
... 11 In addition, weight gain 12 and increases in systolic ... scanned at 5 to 8 years
after menopause and a ... extent to which baseline premenopausal risk factors are ...

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Weight gain after menopause ups breast cancer risk

Women who gain weight after menopause increase their risk of developing invasive breast cancer. Conversely, weight loss reduces the risk, researchers report.

The findings come from an analysis of data from the Nurses Health Study, published in the July 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.Dr. A. Heather Eliassen, from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and her team point out that many studies have established the relationship between weight gain and increased breast cancer risk. However, the few studies that evaluated the effect of weight change after menopause have yielded conflicting results.

They therefore studied these relationships in a group of 49,514 women between 30 and 55 years old who were premenopausal in 1976, had no history of cancer, and became postmenopausal or underwent removal of both ovaries over the course of the study.

At follow-up in 2002, there were 2376 cases of invasive breast cancer among postmenopausal subjects whose weight had been documented.

Dr. Eliassen and her team accounted for other risk factors for breast cancer and found that the risk of developing breast cancer for women who gained 25 kilograms or more since age 18 was 45 percent higher than for those whose weight remained stable. The risk was increased by 18 percent for women who gained 10 kg or more after menopause.

Among women who lost at least 10 kg before menopause, the risk dropped 16 percent, while women who lost at least 10 kg after menopause decreased their risk by 23 percent. For those who maintained their weight loss after menopause, the risk dropped by 57 percent.

However, few women lose weight after menopause, the researchers point out. Therefore, "women should avoid weight gain throughout adult life rather than count on losing weight after menopause," Eliassen's group advises, to cut the risk of breast cancer.

SOURCE: Journal of the American Medical Association

Copyright © 2006 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world.

Women smokers prone to lung cancer, but fewer die

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In agreement with several recent reports, a new study indicates that women who smoke are more likely to develop lung cancer than their male counterparts, yet they are also more likely to survive the malignancy. The findings appear in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.

"If lung cancer risk for women who smoke is indeed higher than the risk for men of the same age who smoke, as indicated by the evidence presented here, this suggests that antismoking efforts directed toward girls and women need to be even more serious than those directed toward boys and men," Dr. Claudia I. Henschke, of New York Presbyterian Hospital, and colleagues emphasize.

The study involved 7498 women and 9427 men who were screened for lung cancer with a CT scan between 1993 and 2005. All of the subjects had a history of cigarette smoking, were at least 40 years of age, and had no symptoms of lung cancer.

Lung cancer was diagnosed in 2.1% of women, but in only 1.2% of men, the investigators report. Thus, women were 90% more likely to develop the malignancy.

As noted, women with lung cancer were less likely to die from it than men -- mortality in women was about half the rate observed for men.

"The reasons women live longer with lung cancer than men are unclear", Dr. Alfred I. Neuget and Dr. Judith S. Jacobson, from Columbia University in New York, comment in a related editorial.

Is it related to "body size, better health behaviors, hormonal and reproductive factors, different cigarette smoking histories or patterns, or other factors?" they wonder.

Whatever the answer, a better understanding of the "tumor and host factors that underlie the female survival advantage in lung cancer could potentially yield major benefits for the treatment of both sexes," they say.

SOURCE: Journal of the American Medical Association

Copyright © 2006 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world.

Health Tip: Genital Herpes Can Be Spread Without Symptoms

Genital herpes is caused by a sexually transmitted virus, often leading to blisters on or near the genitals or rectum. These blisters eventually open into painful sores that take several weeks to heal. Over time, outbreaks tend to become less severe and last for shorter periods.

Although many people with genital herpes may not even know they are infected, the virus can lead to serious infections in babies born to mothers with the condition, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

There is no cure for genital herpes, and an infected person with no symptoms can continue to infect sexual partners.

Certain medications, however, can help control herpes outbreaks.

Although use of a condom may reduce the risk of contracting or spreading genital herpes, the disease can still be spread if sores are located in an area that is not protected by the condom. The CDC says the best way to prevent herpes is to refrain from sexual activity with any potentially infected partner.
 
 
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