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Blood Transfusions Raise Heart Patients' Infection And Death Risk -- Especially Women

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE: December 31, 2006

EXCERPT: "Blood transfusions save the lives of millions of heart surgery patients and others each year. But a new study suggests that patients who receive transfusions during heart bypass surgery have a higher risk of developing potentially dangerous infections, and dying, after their operation. In fact, this increased risk may help explain a longstanding medical mystery: why women bypass patients are more likely than men to die in the first few months after surgery."     more

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Rogers MA, Blumberg N, Saint SK, Kim C, Nallamothu BK, Langa KM. Allogeneic blood transfusions explain increased mortality in women after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Am Heart J. 2006 Dec;152(6):1028-34. PMID: 17161047

Hereditary stroke more common in women

SOURCE: MedlinePlus:  Reuters Health Information

DATE: December 28, 2006

EXCERPT: "Women are more likely than men to inherit an increased risk of having a stroke, new research indicates." 

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Touze E, Rothwell PM. Heritability of ischaemic stroke in women compared with men: a genetic epidemiological study. Lancet Neurol. 2007 Feb;6(2):125-33.

Gender And Obesity Key Factors In Habitual Snoring

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE: December 24, 2006

EXCERPT: "A new study confirms that male gender, obesity, and weight gain are key determinants of habitual snoring in the adult population."  more

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Knuiman M, James A, Divitini M, Bartholomew H. Longitudinal study of risk factors for habitual snoring in a general adult population: the Busselton Health Study.
Chest. 2006 Dec;130(6):1779-83. PMID: 17166996 [PubMed - in process]

Researchers Show Surprising Interaction Between Genes, Gender and Hypertension

SOURCE:  University of California, San Diego News Center.  By Debra Kain

DATE:  December 18, 2006

EXCERPT: "In surprising results, a study of more than 1,200 patients with extremely low or high blood pressure by researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine showed that the influence of genes on blood pressure may vary based on gender."  more   

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Rana BK, Insel PA, Payne SH, Abel K, Beutler E, Ziegler MG, Schork NJ, O'connor DT. Population-Based Sample Reveals Gene-Gender Interactions in Blood Pressure in White Americans. Hypertension. 2006 Dec 11; [Epub ahead of print]

High Blood Pressure More Likely To Develop In Boys Than Girls As They Become Adults

SOURCE:  Medical News Today

DATE:  December 4, 2006

EXCERPT: "A Canadian study suggests that the reason men tend to have higher systolic blood pressure (SBP) than women could be because as boys get older their SBP tends to be higher than girls of equivalent age."  more

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Dasgupta K, O'loughlin J, Chen S, Karp I, Paradis G, Tremblay J, Hamet P, Pilote L. Emergence of Sex Differences in Prevalence of High Systolic Blood Pressure. Analysis of a Longitudinal Adolescent Cohort. Circulation. 2006 Dec 4; [Epub ahead of print]