This study tested the hypotheses that aging is associated with prolonged recovery after a challenge to the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (acute exercise) and that aerobic fitness is associated with a blunting of the age-related loss of negative feedback sensitivity. Young (27 +/- 2.8 yr, n = 9), older (64.6 +/- 1.4 yr, n = 11), and older-fit women (66.3 +/- 2.2 yr, n = 11) underwent a sho...

CONTEXT Some questions remain regarding the anthropometric differences between the feet of young men and women, but the gap is much greater when dealing with older adults. No studies were found concerning these differences in an exclusively older adult population, which makes it difficult to manufacture shoes based on the specific anthropometric measurements of the older adult population and ac...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To compare symptoms, symptom beliefs, and quality of life (QOL) of older breast cancer survivors to those of older women without breast cancer. DESIGN Descriptive, correlational study. SETTING Urban and rural communities in the Midwest United States. SAMPLE 18 breast cancer survivors and 24 women without breast cancer, older than age 64 (X age = 76 years). METHODS In-...

Results: Thirty one thousand and eight hundred women delivered during the study period. One thousand two hundred and seventy two (4%) women were age 40 or older, of which 1202 (3.7%) were included this study, of these 254 (21%) were nullipara. The cesarean delivery rate for these patients was 42.0%, while multipara women it was 26.0%. In the control group cesarean rate was 19.5% for nullipara a...

BACKGROUND Research has demonstrated that exposure to life stressors can influence health through a number of pathways. However, knowledge about the patterns of life stressors and their contributions to health in different populations is limited. Vietnamese older women have attracted little research to date in this area. METHODS This cross-sectional study used an interview-administered-questi...