Women's Health

Older women with Parkinson’s disease were less physically active and spent more time being sedentary compared with those without Parkinson’s disease, which may increase their risk for adverse outcomes, according to researchers.

Heat wave exposure in the final weeks of pregnancy was associated with preterm birth, especially for pregnant women in rural regions who had exposure to daytime-only heat waves, researchers in China reported.

Following last year’s U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning federal abortion protections, rheumatologists must change their practice with regard managing patients’ reproductive health, said presenter at the 2023 AWIR annual conference.

Delivery at 39 weeks gestation among pregnancies conceived with infertility treatment was associated with the lowest perinatal risk when comparing delivery risk at a given vs. subsequent gestational week, researchers reported.

Rheumatologists can help patients with lupus and other rheumatic diseases avoid potentially dangerous unintended pregnancies by regularly documenting their contraception use, according to a presenter at the 2023 AWIR annual conference.

Post-menopausal women demonstrate a risk for gout that is two times that of women who have not yet reached menopause, according to a presenter at the 2023 AWIR annual conference.

Individuals who underwent gender-affirming mastectomy reported low rates of regret and high levels of satisfaction more than 2 years after surgery, according to a cross-sectional survey study published in JAMA Surgery.

Kidney diseases are biologically modulated by sex and can be culturally modulated by gender. There are well-described sex- and gender-specific differences in the prevalence and prognosis of some kidney diseases, the prototype of which is lupus nephritis.

Midlife women aged 45 years or older with a history of infertility were more likely to experience menopausal symptoms than women without infertility, according to secondary analysis results published in Menopause.

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