#women's healthNews • Up to 12 year in advance Urine gene test can predict bladder cancer years before diagnosis Testing for genetic mutations in urine can detect bladder cancer years before the disease shows clinical symptoms, new research has shown - reaching more than a decade for the ...
Chest pain is one of the most commonly known symptoms of a heart attack, although sometimes one may show a complete absence of chest pain, even when having a heart attack. This chest pain may feel like pressure, fullness or a tightness in the chest area and usually seems to originate in ...
Acute prevention of an MI through recognition of prodromal symptoms represents an opportunity to significantly reduce heart attack deaths. The Early Heart Attack Care (EHAC) program puts emphasis on prodromal symptom recognition and allows for ashift in time backward to prevent the ischemic process ...
More than one third of acute myocardial infarctions occur without chest pain [2]. Silent myocardial infarction is most common in women, diabetics, and the elderly. At present, patients and physicians rely on symptoms to prompt presentation to a medical facility. The alerts trial: methodology and...
If a brief, manualized early intervention can prevent or reduce post-traumatic symptoms in women who have recently experienced rape, healthcare services targeted for these populations (i.e., sexual assault centers, SACs) should consider implementing such interventions as part of routine care. Methods...
The effects of pregnancy on autoimmune disease differ for inflammatory autoimmune diseases, which tend to remit, and antibody mediated autoimmune diseases, where the effects are more variable. For instance, the symptoms ofMGvary considerably from woman to woman and from pregnancy to pregnancy in the...
For example, the threat of hostility and the attack characteristic of experiences of abuse are not likely to be elicited by the performance anxiety associated with a public speaking task such as the TSST. Work in related areas, such as stress responding in individuals with PTSD, has shown that...
Unfortunately, the symptoms of a weak heart pump can be confused with those seen with normal pregnancy. At Mayo Clinic in Florida, Demilade Adedinsewo, M.B., Ch.B., a cardiologist, uses AI as a tool to detect a condition in women called peripartum cardiomyopathy, a weak heart pump th...
Stroke, heart attack risk factors more severe in women before menopause, study suggests Muka's team looked at data on more than 310,000 women who had participated in a total of 33 studies published since the 1990s. Comparing women who had their last period before age 45 to those who entere...
Clinical onset in both subgroups was similar; most patients presented with sensory symptoms and monosymptomatic attack. Those who remained in the RR phase had a larger percentage of women (81.8% vs 63.1%; P = .02) and a younger age at disease onset (25.5 vs 28.4 years; P = .01) (...