BACKGROUND Although guidelines recommend that clinicians consider life expectancy before screening older women for breast cancer, many older women with limited life expectancies are screened. We aimed to identify factors important to mammography screening decisions among women aged 80 and older compared to women aged 65-79. METHODS Telephone surveys of 107 women aged 80+ and 93 women aged 65-...

OBJECTIVE To investigate pregnancy performance and newborn outcome between adolescents and older women receiving adequate and similar antenatal care. METHODS Four hundred and twenty-five women attending the antenatal clinic at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, participated in a prospective study. Recruitment included women 19 years and younger (adolescents) and 20...

Children's maternal, self, and marital representations were examined in 46 children 3 1/2 to 7 years old using the MacArthur Story Stem Battery. Children drawn from agencies serving battered women expressed fewer positive representations of their mothers and themselves, were more likely to portray interparental conflict as escalating, and were more avoidant and less coherent in their narratives...

Background Today, many of women postpone their birth of the first baby until fourth or fifth decade. This study was to evaluate the pregnancy outcomes in women aged 40 years and older in pregnant women referred to Ayatolah Rohani Hospital in Babol. MaterialsAndMethods This case-control study was conducted of 160 patients in two groups, ≥ 40 age group and age group

The authors examined how numbers of live births and pregnancy losses affected the self-rated health and depressive symptoms of women aged 50 years and older, contrasting African Americans and Whites. The authors used data from Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities, a large, prospective study with substantial minority representation. They tested hypotheses that childbearing history variables would...

Perspectives Populations around the world are rapidly ageing. Many challenges and opportunities arise from this demographic transition. 1 However, the sexual health of the older members of these aging populations is often overlooked in academic and media discourse. The subject of sexuality in older people remains largely taboo in many cultures, yet older women the world over are known to have s...

OBJECTIVE To expand the evidence base on the prevalence of non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors in rural Africa, in particular among older adults aged 50 and older. METHODS Cross-sectional study in three rural sites in Malawi, Rwanda and Tanzania. One person was interviewed from each of 665 households selected through a stratified random sampling procedure across the three sites. The q...

Older women may be especially at risk for alcohol problems because they are more likely than men to outlive their spouses and face other losses that may lead to loneliness and depression. Physiologically, women are also at greater risk for alcohol-related health problems as they age. Because of these risks, alcohol use recommendations for older women generally are lower than those set for both ...

A n extensive body of research has reported that women experience worse outcomes compared with men when the full spectrum of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are included (1–4). Compared with men, women are more likely to experience major bleeding (1,2) and vascular access complications (2) post-percutaneous coronary intervention, as well as a higher rate of major adverse cardiovascular events (1...