Journal of women's health
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Journal of women's health · Jun 2013
Disparities in motor vehicle-related deaths among females-United States, 2005-2009.
In 2010, almost 11,000 females were killed in motor vehicle crashes, and racial/ethnic minorities were affected disproportionally. ⋯ Despite the recent declines in motor vehicle-related death rates noted in this article, the need remains for increased use of evidence-based strategies to reduce the burden of motor vehicle-related deaths among females overall and especially among American Indian/Alaska Natives.
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Journal of women's health · May 2013
ReviewRevival of a core public health function: state- and urban-based maternal death review processes.
This article reviews some of the current challenges for maternal death review in the United States, describes key findings from an assessment of U. S. capacity for conducting maternal death reviews, and introduces a new Maternal Mortality Initiative that aims to develop standardized guidelines for state- or city-based maternal deaths review processes.
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Journal of women's health · May 2013
Increasing tobacco quitline calls from pregnant african american women: the "one tiny reason to quit" social marketing campaign.
Pregnant African American women are at disproportionately high risk of premature birth and infant mortality, outcomes associated with cigarette smoking. Telephone-based, individual smoking cessation counseling has been shown to result in successful quit attempts in the general population and among pregnant women, but "quitlines" are underutilized. A social marketing campaign called One Tiny Reason to Quit (OTRTQ) promoted calling a quitline (1-800-QUIT-NOW) to pregnant, African American women in Richmond, Virginia, in 2009 and was replicated there 2 years later. ⋯ A multimodal quitline promotion like OTRTQ should be considered for geographic areas with sizable African American populations and high rates of infant mortality.
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Journal of women's health · May 2013
Comparative StudyBreastfeeding status and maternal cardiovascular variables across the postpartum.
There have been recent reports that lactational history is associated with long-term women's health benefits. Most of these studies are epidemiological. If particular cardiometabolic changes that occur during lactation ultimately influence women's health later is unknown. ⋯ These data suggest that there are important physiological differences in women during months of breastfeeding. These may have roles in influencing or programming later risks for a number of midlife diseases.
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Journal of women's health · May 2013
Gender differences in myocardial perfusion defect in asymptomatic postmenopausal women and men with and without diabetes mellitus.
To compare the results of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) of asymptomatic postmenopausal women and age-matched men and to investigate the effect of diabetes mellitus (DM) on gender differences and the risk estimation of coronary heart disease (CHD). ⋯ The results of this preliminary study suggest that asymptomatic postmenopausal women had more abnormalities in MPI and those with DM had a higher SSS and SDS than age-matched men. The risk of CAD may still be underestimated by the UKPDS.