Older women score more favorably on measures of mental health, and college -
aged women report less loneliness if living with a companion animal rather than alone.
Not exact matches
In 2015, Princeton University released a startling
report that showed white, middle -
aged women are dying earlier — a decline that has only been seen in the U.S.
In 2013, the most recent year for which data are available, the government
reports roughly 37 percent of men and 42 percent of
women claimed Social Security at
age 62.
Columbia University researchers found that 3.9 % of pregnant
women (and 7.6 % of non-pregnant
women of reproductive
age)
reported using marijuana in the previous month between 2007 and 2012.
Women over the
age of 75 are almost twice as likely to live in poverty, according to the Senate
report.
«More
women than ever are earning graduate business degrees, and at younger
ages than ever before,» Fortune
reports.
The Nikkei business daily
reported in February that the rate of working
women aged 30 to 34 rose to 75.2 percent last year, up from about 50 percent three decades ago.
The workforce participation rate for
women between the
ages of 15 and 64 rose to a record 69.4 percent in 2017, according to
reports.
Unsurprisingly, American social networkers
aged 18 - 34 self -
report spending more time than their older counterparts, and
women outpace men in consumption, also.
A newly minted 2006 Statistics Canada
report on
women finds that 70 percent of
women with kids
aged three to five are working mothers, up from 37 percent just 30 years ago.
Research shows that
women of all
ages who start a strength training workout, similar to Pure Barre,
report that they feel healthier, more fit and have an improved self - image than before starting the workout.
In 1970, according to a Child Care in Canada
report put out by Statistics Canada, around 30 percent of
women with children under the
age of six were employed.
According to
reporting from Vox, North America in the early 1990s saw 45 abortions for every 1,000
women of reproductive
age.
A 2011 Pew
Report found that the median
age of (first) marriages was 29 for men and 27 for
women.
Duru and his research team devised an eight - week, faith - based intervention program for 62 African - American
women,
age 60 or older, who
reported engaging in 30 minutes of exercise less than three times per week.
In 2011, U.S. abortions dropped to 16.9 per 1,000
women between the
ages of 15 and 44, according to the latest
report by the Guttmacher Institute.
The abortion rate
reported by the Centers for Disease Control stayed steady at 24 or 23 per 1,000
women of child - bearing
age from 1978 through 1992 (the last year of Bush the elder's administration), but then dropped dramatically to 17 per 1,000 by 1998 (the fifth year of the Clinton administration), as the unemployment rate also dropped dramatically.
Football is the biggest participation sport among
women and girls and 180,000
women aged between 16 and 34 want to take up the game according to an FA
report.
Leading experts, including Dr. Hal Danzer,
report that on average a
woman under the
age of 35 will get pregnant in about 1 in 3 cycles.
Just 12.2 percent of
women ages 50 and older are satisfied with their body size, according to a study reported by researchers from UNC's Gillings School of Public Health that appeared in the Oct. 11, 2013 Journal of Women & A
women ages 50 and older are satisfied with their body size, according to a study
reported by researchers from UNC's Gillings School of Public Health that appeared in the Oct. 11, 2013 Journal of
Women & A
Women &
Aging.
The New York Times recently cited a 2008
report which showed that birth rates for
women over 40 years of
age rose 4 percent over the previous year and a 2009 survey indicated that 14 percent of people in their prime childbearing years decided to delay becoming pregnant due to the economic recession.
This particular meta - study
reported that breastfeeding provides up to a 28 % decrease in risk of developing breast cancer at any
age (pre - or post-menopausal) for
women without a family history of the disease, who breastfed for 12 months or longer (World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, 2007).
Covariates included mother's
age, education, smoking during pregnancy, and participation in the federal nutritional support program for
Women, Infants, and Children; and infant's gender, race, birth weight, congenital malformation
reported at birth, live birth order, and single or multiple birth.
Venneman and colleagues5 recently demonstrated that infants who are formula fed are twice as likely to die of SIDS than breastfed infants based on a case control study of 333 SIDS cases compared to 998
aged matched controls in Germany, from 1998 - 2001, consistent with previously published
reports.35 While no studies show that co-sleeping in the form of bedsharing, specifically, is imperative for breastfeeding enhancement, many studies have shown that in order to get more sleep and to ease caring for their infants the decision to breastfeed often leads mothers to adopt routine bedsharing for at least part of the night36 - 40 even where they never intended to do so.41, 42 Indeed, nearly 50 % of breastfeeding mothers in the United States and Great Britain adopt bedsharing for some part of the night,38,43 - 45 and breastfeeding
women are twice as likely to sleep with their babies in the first month relative to mothers electing to bottle - feed.39
A 2012 National
Women's Law Center report found that the vast majority of best - selling health - care plans charged women higher premiums than men of the same age — sometimes as much as 80 percent more, even when they didn't cover maternity serv
Women's Law Center
report found that the vast majority of best - selling health - care plans charged
women higher premiums than men of the same age — sometimes as much as 80 percent more, even when they didn't cover maternity serv
women higher premiums than men of the same
age — sometimes as much as 80 percent more, even when they didn't cover maternity services.
«The driver
reported that one middle -
aged woman by name, Ajoke Ahmed, a passenger in the vehicle, had gone into deep labour.
«Additionally
women of any
age must be breast aware throughout their life, by being familiar with how their breasts normally look and feel so that any changes unusual for them can be picked up quickly and
reported to their doctor without delay.»
This was contained in a
report published in the June 23 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine where the doctors detailed the experience of two
women,
ages 22 and 40, for months.
Breast Cancer Care, the leading breast cancer support and information charity in the UK, has produced a new
report, backed by
Age UK, that makes clear recommendations to improve outcomes and experiences for older
women with breast cancer, a demographic proven to have poorer relative survival rates and an increased likelihood of presenting later with symptoms and of receiving non-standard treatments.
«With 80 per cent of breast cancers occurring in
women over the
age of 50 and a steadily increasing elderly population, the concerns raised in this
report will only intensify over the coming years unless urgently addressed.»
The second phase of the study
reports results from 53 healthy, non-obese men and
women between
ages 21 and 50 who cut calories by 15 % over 2 years and underwent additional measurements for metabolism and oxidative stress.
In April, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
reported for 2013 - 2014 that among adults
ages 18 to 59, 25 percent of men and 20 percent of
women had genital infections with HPV types that put them at risk of developing cancer.
Jarlenski and her colleagues analyzed National Survey of Drug Use and Health data from 2005 to 2014, finding that approximately one in every 50
women age 18 to 44
reported using an opioid pain reliever that was not prescribed or used only for the experience or feeling it caused, or heroin, in the prior 30 days.
In fact, African - American
women had higher cancer rates at nearly all
ages compared with white
women, and the disparity was more pronounced at older
ages, likely attributable to African - American
women reporting a higher prevalence of hysterectomy than white
women.
The Long Life Family Study (LLFS)
reported that the odds of living up to the top fifth percentile were two times higher for
women who had their last child past the
age of 33 years than for those who had their last child before the
age of 29.
By contrast, high income nations such as Italy (8th) and the United Kingdom (5th)
reported only 5,480 and 4,918 cycles per million
women of reproductive
age, respectively.
In the United States, more men than
women died from flu - related causes from 2007 to 2010 across several
age groups, researchers
reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 2013.
A Danish study
reported in 2012 of about 1,000 recently postmenopausal
women,
ages 45 to 58, also supported the idea that timing of hormone treatment matters.
In a study in JAMA Internal Medicine in 2015, more than half of almost 1,500
women enrolled at
ages 42 to 52
reported frequent hot flashes — occurring at least six days in the previous two weeks — with symptoms lasting more than seven years.
The timing of a scientific
report last fall that questioned the value of screening
women routinely for breast cancer before
age 50 was bad, coming just as Democrats were trying to push health reform through Congress.
At AAIC 2014, Stephanie Schultz, BSc, and colleagues at the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute and the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
reported on the results of a study of 329 cognitively normal middle -
aged adults (mean
age = 60.3 years, 69 %
women) enrolled in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention.
However, they note that the
age at which the female own - gender bias emerges and possibly diminishes has not yet been thoroughly investigated, although one study
reported that, for older
women, no own - gender bias was observed for either own - or other -
age faces.
Numerous studies have
reported that
women outperform men when it comes to face recognition faces, but most have focused on assessing innate biases in favor of race, gender, and
age.
The trial enrolled 1,500 men and
women ages 18 and older with no
reported history of Ebola virus disease at Redemption Hospital in Monrovia from Feb. 2 through April 30, 2015.
An effective vaccine is urgently needed for
women of childbearing
age and travelers to areas where the virus has been
reported.
An estimated 70 percent of white
women and between 80 and 90 percent of African - American
women will develop fibroids by
age 50, according to the NIH, and while CCCA is likely underdiagnosed, some estimates
report a prevalence of rates as high as 17 percent of black
women having this condition.
The CDC estimates that nearly 8 percent of people over
age 12
report being currently depressed, with
women reporting higher rates of depression than males in every
age group.
Pollack and colleagues found that physicians who
reported at least one social network member with a poor prognosis without screening were significantly more likely to recommend routine screening to
women ages 40 - 44 years (92.7 versus 85.6 percent) and older than 75 years compared to those who didn't (84 versus 68.3 percent).
Now Yamanaka and his colleagues
report in the journal Cell that the same combination of genes induced pluripotency in commercially available human fibroblasts (connective tissue cells that play a crucial role in healing) derived from the facial skin of a 36 - year - old
woman, the joint tissue of a man,
aged 69, and a newborn, respectively.
Reporting today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a team of scientists from the
Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS), a subset of the larger Women's Health Initiative, report that Prempro provides no boost to cognition or protection against dementia in women 65 years of age and o
Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS), a subset of the larger
Women's Health Initiative, report that Prempro provides no boost to cognition or protection against dementia in women 65 years of age and o
Women's Health Initiative,
report that Prempro provides no boost to cognition or protection against dementia in
women 65 years of age and o
women 65 years of
age and older.