Women’s Health News

Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES, FADCES, continues her conversation with Audrey Fleck, MS, RDN, about associations between gut dysbiosis — an unhealthy imbalance of microbes in the gut — and diseases associated with reproductive hormones.

Black women in the U.S. who reported experiencing interpersonal racism in employment, housing and police interactions had increased stroke risks, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

DENVER — Therapeutic lifestyle modifications, particularly focusing on diet quality, can improve long-term cardiometabolic health for perimenopausal and postmenopausal women, according to a presenter at the Lifestyle Medicine Conference.

Current menopause smartphone apps require more information on osteoporosis, expert input and better quality, functionality and simplicity of use and understanding for the general public, researchers reported.

The gender gap in life expectancy in the United States has grown in recent years, with women living nearly 6 years longer than men on average, according to the results of a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

I love my job and helping patients at various stages in their lives. It is the most wonderful career that I can think of because I have a strong history of breast cancer and ovarian cancer in my family.

PHILADELPHIA — In the SPEC-AI trial, use of an artificial intelligence-enhanced digital stethoscope doubled the number of cases of peripartum cardiomyopathy identified among pregnant and postpartum women.

Postmenopausal women who stopped or never used hormone therapy over a 5-year period experienced a loss in bone density, whereas bone density was maintained for those who continued treatment, researchers reported in Menopause.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was linked to a short decrease in obstetric interventions and an increase in perinatal mortality, according to a retrospective study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

SAN DIEGO — Pregnant patients with concomitant systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome have an 18-fold increased risk for cardiovascular events vs. healthy pregnant controls, said a speaker at ACR Convergence 2023.