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The effects of anorexia prove that osteoporosis is not reserved for older women. Anorexia increases the risk for osteoporosis in several ways. (Source: About.com Eating Disorders)

IntroductionTo examine the association between mammographic density and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes encoding CYP1A1, CYP1B1, aromatase, 17beta-HSD, ESR1, and ESR2 in pre- and early peri-menopausal Caucasian, African-American, Chinese, and Japanese women. Methods: The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation is a longitudinal community-based cohort study. We analyzed data from 451 pre- and early peri-menopausal participants of the ancillary SWAN Mammographic Density study for whom we had complete information regarding mammographic density, genotypes, and covariates. Using multivariate linear regression, we examined the relation between percent mammographic breast density (outcome) and each SNP (primary predictor), adjusting for age, race/ethnicity, parity, cigarette smoking, and body mass index (BMI). Results: After multivariate adjustment, CYP1B1 rs162555 CC genotype was associated with 9.4% higher percent mammographic density than TC/TT genotype (P=0.04). CYP19

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Women with cystic fibrosis can have fertility treatment to help them have babies without any long-term adverse effects on either themselves or their children, researchers have found. Women with cystic fibrosis often have thick cervical mucus preventing them from becoming pregnant naturally. However, a pregnancy can be achieved by the use of intrauterine insemination (IUI) or in vitro fertilization (IVF).

Two studies have confirmed what all that heart-healthy advice has said: eating the right foods, losing weight, and exercising really do help both men and women avoid cardiovascular problems.

Spousal abuse seems to be a no-brainer -- leave the guy and walk out the door, right? According to a new University of Illinois journal article, an abused woman actually goes through a five-step process of leaving that can be complicated at every stage ... ...

Women who have premature menopause because of medical interventions are at an increased risk of developing lung cancer, according to a new study published in the International Journal of Cancer.

NICE guidelines on the prevention of osteoporosis are potentially 'harmful' to around half of elderly women, say specialists. (Source: Pulse Today Clinical Updates)

Standing at 6ft 6ins and weighing 34 stone Tanya Angus has been dubbed a modern day giant.

Scientists have long known of dissimilarities in anatomy and activity between the brains of women and men--now a rodent study shows that even individual neurons behave differently depending on sex.Robert Clark of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and his colleagues found that cultured neurons from female rats and mice survived longer than did neurons from their male counterparts when facing starvation. Such sex differences had been evident for decades in other body tissues, but so far no one had looked at brain cells, Clark says. When he and his team deprived the cells of nutrients, female neurons consumed mainly fat resources to stay alive, whereas large amounts of male cells started to eat up their own protein-based building blocks--and subsequently died. [More]