Medical economics
COVID accelerated it, but the decline in life expectancy for Native Americans has been in the making for generations
Six and one-half years.
Feb 3, 2023
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News tagged with indian women
Health
Behind the uptick in women's alcohol consumption: Stress, stereotypes, marketing
During the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, a flurry of studies made it into the news cycle: Heavy drinking and alcohol-related deaths were spiking in the U.S.
Aug 31, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Methamphetamine-involved overdose deaths nearly tripled between 2015 to 2019, study finds
Overdose deaths involving methamphetamine nearly tripled from 2015 to 2019 among people ages 18-64 in the United States, according to a study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes ...
Sep 22, 2021
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Health
Fortifying tea with folate and vitamin B12 may help counter serious health issues in Indian women
Fortifying tea with folate and vitamin B12 may help counter the high levels of anaemia and neural tube defects associated with these widespread nutritional deficiencies in Indian women, suggest preliminary findings, published ...
Jun 23, 2021
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Ethnic groups have higher risk of developing a physical disability
Men and women from a South Asian background are more likely to develop a physical disability and struggle with day-to-day physical activities throughout adulthood compared with their White British counterparts, new research ...
Jan 8, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
These memoirs show us the role women had in eradicating smallpox from India
Smallpox is one of the only diseases to have been eradicated by sustained human effort. But before it was eradicated in 1977, it claimed an estimated 300 million lives in the 20th century alone. The highly contagious disease ...
Nov 27, 2019
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Cardiology
Study shows fewer American Indians getting heart disease
A first-of-its-kind study led by researchers at Washington State University shows that new cases of heart disease among American Indians in three U.S. regions have gone down.
Nov 7, 2019
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Cardiology
Heart disease down over A generation among American Indians
Heart disease among American Indians in three regions has declined with each generation over the past 25 years and fewer men are dying from cardiovascular events in that span, according to new findings in the largest and ...
Nov 5, 2019
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Diabetes
Gestational diabetes in India and Sweden
Indian women are younger and leaner than Swedish women when they develop gestational diabetes, a new study from Lund University shows. The researchers also found a gene that increases the risk of gestational diabetes in Swedish ...
Apr 29, 2019
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
A review has found only a third of cases with severe illness in pregnancy were managed appropriately
A new study shows approximately one third of cases of pregnant women admitted to intensive care units and high dependency units in New Zealand had potentially preventable severe illnesses (often referred to as severe maternal ...
Feb 5, 2019
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