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Physical Activity and Coronary Heart Disease in Women: Is "No Pain, No Gain" Passe?

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Even light physical activity such as walking can lower a woman's risk of coronary heart disease as long as she does it for at least one hour a week. In a study of 39,372 women, those who participated in any kind of physical activity had a 20% to 50% lower risk of developing coronary heart disease.

Author: Buring, Julie E., Manson, Joann E., Rexrode, Kathryn M., Lee, I-Min, Cook, Nancy R.
Publisher: American Medical Association
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2001
Prevention, Coronary heart disease, Exercise

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Low-dose aspirin in the primary prevention of cancer

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A study is conducted to examine the effect of aspirin on the risk of cancer among healthy women. Results suggest that alternate day use of low-dose aspirin for an average 10 years of treatment does not lower risk of total, breast, colorectal or other site-specific cancers.

Author: Ridker, Paul M., Hennekens, Charles H., Buring, Julie E., Manson, Joann E., Gaziano, J. Michael, Cook, Nancy R., Gordon, David, I-Min Lee
Publisher: American Medical Association
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2005
United States, Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical preparations, Aspirin, Aspirin Combinations, Cancer, Dosage and administration, Cancer prevention

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Self-reported breast implants and connective-tissue diseases in female health professionals: a retrospective cohort study

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There appears to be no statistically significant link between breast implants and connective tissue disease. Connective tissue disease includes rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and scleroderma. Researchers sent a questionnaire to 395,543 women participating in the Women's Health Study asking whether they had ever been diagnosed with a connective tissue disease and whether they ever had a breast implant. Women who had received a breast implant were 24% more likely to have any connective tissue disease, but the risks of having a specific connective tissue disease were generally not statistically significant. There was no increased risk with greater exposure to the implants nor with greater age.

Author: Hennekens, Charles H., Buring, Julie E., Manson, Joann E., Lee, I-Min, Cook, Nancy R., Hebert, Patricia R., Karlson, Elizabeth W., LaMotte, Fran
Publisher: American Medical Association
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1996
Risk factors, Connective tissue diseases, Breast implants

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Subjects list: Health aspects, Women, Women's health
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