http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new study shows that a woman's pre-pregnancy body fat (adiposity), in-pregnancy weight gain, and presence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) can all combine to steeply increase the risk of giving birth to large-for-gestational age (LGA) babies to different degrees in white non-Hispanic, black non-Hispanic, White Hispanic, and Asian women, with the highest combined risk being in White non-Hispanic women. The research is published in the journal Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) and is led by Dr Katherine Bowers and Dr Cuilin Zhang at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health (USA), and colleagues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-pre-pregnancy-body-fat-in-pregnancy-weight.html Diabetes Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:28:43 EST news284700458 Pregnant women who experienced financial, emotional, or other personal stress in the year before their delivery had an increased chance of having a stillbirth, say researchers who conducted a National Institutes of Health network study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-stressful-life-events-stillbirth.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:51:52 EST news283603872 The number of women aware that heart disease is the leading cause of death has nearly doubled in the last 15 years, but that knowledge still lags in minorities and younger women, according to a new study in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-room-women-heart-disease-awareness.html Cardiology Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:57:22 EST news280493816 (HealthDay)—The number of U.S. women using the "morning-after" contraception pill has risen dramatically in the last decade, federal health officials report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-morning-after-pill-cdc.html Health Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:20:01 EST news280073398 The odds of individuals with open-angle glaucoma undergoing visual field testing decreased for all racial/ethnic groups from 2001 through 2009, but the odds decreased the most for Hispanic men and women in a study of enrollees in a large U.S. managed care network, according to a report published in the December issue of Archives of Ophthalmology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-odds-visual-field-glaucoma-decreased.html Ophthalmology Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:00:12 EST news274369693 The value that an expectant mother places on family—regardless of the reality of her own family situation—predicts the birthweight of her baby and whether the child will develop asthma symptoms three years later, according to new research from USC. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-baby-health-tied-mother-family.html Health Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:59:34 EST news273772728 Women with aggressive breast cancer were more likely to receive adjuvant chemotherapy, but at the expense of completing locoregional radiation therapy, according to recently presented data. This was especially true in minorities, who were the most likely to present with moderate- to high-grade and symptomatically detected tumors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-minorities-aggressive-tumors.html Cancer Mon, 29 Oct 2012 03:20:02 EST news270697497 Non-Hispanic black women diagnosed with breast cancer, specifically those with estrogen receptor-positive tumors, are at a significantly increased risk for breast cancer death compared with non-Hispanic white women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-breast-cancer-death-black-women.html Cancer Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:20:01 EST news270630716 (HealthDay)—Language barriers may help explain why Hispanic women in the United States are less likely than white women to receive an epidural for pain relief during childbirth, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-language-barrier-blocks-epidural-childbirth.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Sun, 14 Oct 2012 07:30:01 EST news269414446 (HealthDay) -- More than a third of births in the United States stem from unintended pregnancies, a number that's remained steady in the United States from 1982 to 2010, a new government report indicates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-births-unintended-cdc.html Health Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:40:01 EST news262342466 (HealthDay) -- Too many American women still smoke during their pregnancies, a new report finds, and rates of such smoking vary widely depending on race. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-women-pregnancy.html Health Thu, 10 May 2012 18:20:01 EST news255885126 Hispanic women in Puerto Rico who have triple-negative breast cancer share similar disease characteristics with Hispanic women in California, suggesting that race plays a significant role in the presentation of triple-negative breast cancer among Hispanic women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-role-triple-negative-breast-cancer-hispanic.html Cancer Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:58:48 EST news252683916 In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report findings that indicate that duration of stay in the United States is associated with increased risk of preterm birth for Hispanic women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-residence-factor-preterm-birth.html Health Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:33:56 EST news247984427 More U.S. women are having twins these days. The reason? Older moms and fertility treatments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-women-twins-babies.html Health Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:39:03 EST news244906732 Hispanic women are more likely to die from breast cancer than non-Hispanic white women, according to research presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 6-10, 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-breast-cancer-mortality-higher-hispanic.html Cancer Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:10:25 EST news242539817 New research from the National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) at Bowling Green State University shows there is substantial variation in the first-time divorce rate when it is broken down by race and education. But, there is also evidence that a college degree has a protective effect against divorce among all races. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-first-time-divorce-tied.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:48:05 EST news239557663 Researchers reported that explicit inclusion of disparities in cost-effectiveness analysis, would allow policy makers to identify strategies that would reduce overall cancer risk, reduce disparities between racial ethnic subgroups, and be cost-effective, according to a study published online September 6 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-disparities-cervical-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:49:39 EST news234546520 New research finds that gestational diabetes, or pregnancy-related diabetes, may not raise the risk of heart disease independent of other cardiovascular risk factors except in certain high-risk populations, such as Hispanics. The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-women-heart-disease-gestational-diabetes.html Cardiology Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:29:20 EST news226578536