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Glucose Intolerance Linked To Cancer Risk In Women

SOURCE:  Medical News Today

DATE: February 28, 2007

EXCERPT: "High blood glucose levels -- even before they reach the level needed for a diagnosis of diabetes -- may signal an increased risk for cancer in women, according to a new study."  more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Stattin P, Bjor O, Ferrari P, Lukanova A, Lenner P, Lindahl B, Hallmans G, Kaaks R.   Prospective study of hyperglycemia and cancer risk. Diabetes Care. 2007 Mar;30(3):561-7. PMID: 17327321 

FDA Intends To Withhold $1.2M of $4M Allocated to Office of Women's Health, Official Says

SOURCE:  Medical News Today

DATE:  February 27, 2007

EXCERPT: Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy: National Politics & Policy
" FDA intends to withhold $1.2 million of the $4 million Congress allocated for the agency's Office of Women's Health in fiscal year 2007, and the remaining $2.8 million has already been allocated or spent, according to an unnamed, high-level agency official, the Washington Post reports."   more

RELATED LINKS:

February 27, 2007  
Women's Health Office Funds Cut

February 28, 2007   
Murray, Clinton, Mikulski, Snowe Call on FDA Commissioner to Stop Funding Cuts for Office of Women's Health

March 1, 2007  
FDA Commissioner Offers No Clear Answer on Budget Cut for Women's Health Office

March 5, 2007   
Decision Has Not Been Made About Office Of Women's Health Funding, FDA Commissioner Von Eschenbach Says

March 19, 2007
FDA Announces Office of Women's Health to be Fully Funded

Diabetes Risk Factors Develop Earlier In Women Than Men

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE: February 27, 2007

EXCERPT:  "Epidemiologists at the University at Buffalo have found that newly identified risk factors for diabetes found in the blood, such as markers of endothelial dysfunction, chronic sub-acute inflammation and blood clotting factors, are present early on in women who eventually progress from normal glucose status to the pre-diabetic condition. The markers weren't associated with progression from normal to pre-diabetic status in men.   ....  "This is one of the first reports to show that otherwise healthy women are more likely than men to show elevated levels of endothelial factors and other markers of progression to pre-diabetes," said lead author Richard Donahue, Ph.D., professor of social and preventive medicine and associate dean for research in UB's School of Public Health and Health Professions. "  more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Donahue RP, Rejman K, Rafalson LB, Dmochowski J, Stranges S, Trevisan M. Sex differences in endothelial function markers before conversion to pre-diabetes: does the clock start ticking earlier among women? The Western New York Study. Diabetes Care. 2007 Feb;30(2):354-9.  PMID: 17259507

Healthy Women With High Cholesterol At Increased Risk Of Stroke

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE: February 20, 2007

EXCERPT:  "Healthy women with no history of heart disease or stroke significantly increase their chances of having a stroke if they have high cholesterol, according to a study of more than 27,000 women." more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Kurth T, Everett BM, Buring JE, Kase CS, Ridker PM, Gaziano JM. Lipid levels and the risk of ischemic stroke in women. Neurology. 2007 Feb 20;68(8):556-62. PMID: 17310025

Call Made For Changes In Women's Heart Disease Risk-Factor List

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE: February 19, 2007

EXCERPT: "Johns Hopkins cardiologists are calling for an expansion of the criteria widely used by physicians to detect and assess a postmenopausal woman's chances of developing cardiovascular disease, ... "  more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Blumenthal RS, Michos ED, Nasir K. Further improvements in CHD risk prediction for women. JAMA. 2007 Feb 14;297(6):641-3. No abstract available. PMID: 17299201

New Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Models Developed For Women

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE: February 19, 2007

EXCERPT: "Researchers have developed a more accurate way to predict the risk of developing cardiovascular disease among women ..."  more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Ridker PM, Buring JE, Rifai N, Cook NR. Development and validation of improved algorithms for the assessment of global cardiovascular risk in women: the Reynolds risk score. JAMA. 2007 Feb 14;297(6):611-9. PMID: 17299196

Updated guidelines advise focusing on women's lifetime heart risk

SOURCE: American Heart Association

DATE:  02/19/2007

EXCERPT: "Healthcare professionals should focus on women’s lifetime heart disease risk, not just short-term risk, according to updated American Heart Association guidelines."   more

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Mosca L, Banka CL, Benjamin EJ, Berra K, Bushnell C, Dolor RJ, Ganiats TG, Gomes AS, Gornik HL, Gracia C, Gulati M, Haan CK, Judelson DR, Keenan N, Kelepouris E, Michos ED, Newby LK, Oparil S, Ouyang P, Oz MC, Petitti D, Pinn VW, Redberg RF, Scott R, Sherif K, Smith SC Jr, Sopko G, Steinhorn RH, Stone NJ, Taubert KA, Todd BA, Urbina E, Wenger NK. Evidence-Based Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Women: 2007 Update. Circulation. 2007 Feb 19. PMID: 17309915

Menstrual cycle phase modulates reward-related neural function in women

SOURCE: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

DATE:  February 13, 2007

EXCERPT:  "There is considerable evidence from animal studies that the mesolimbic and mesocortical dopamine systems are sensitive to circulating gonadal steroid hormones. .... Findings provide evidence of neurofunctional modulation of the reward system by gonadal steroid hormones in humans and establish a neurobiological foundation for understanding their impact on vulnerability to drug abuse, neuropsychiatric diseases with differential expression across males and females, and hormonally mediated mood disorders."  more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Dreher JC, Schmidt PJ, Kohn P, Furman D, Rubinow D, Berman KF. Menstrual cycle phase modulates reward-related neural function in women. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Feb 13;104(7):2465-70.

Extra Cortisol Protects Women's Mood Under Stress

SOURCE:  Medical News Today

DATE:  February 12, 2007

EXCERPT:  "German researchers have found additional evidence that the stress hormone cortisol can have positive effects in certain situations."  more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Het S, Wolf OT. Mood changes in response to psychosocial stress in healthy young women: effects of pretreatment with cortisol. Behav Neurosci. 2007 Feb;121(1):11-20. PMID: 17324047 

New Model Offers New Ways To Study Gender Differences In Aging

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE:  February 11, 2007

EXCERPT: "A provocative new model proposed by molecular biologist John Tower of the University of Southern California may help answer an enduring scientific question: Why do women tend to live longer than men?"  more

RELATED CITATION  (See BIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS index):

Tower, John. Sex-specific regulation of aging and apoptosis. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 127 (9) : 705-718 SEP 2006