Cardiac rehabilitation programmes: are women less likely to attend?

Cardiac rehabilitation: socially deprived patients are less likely to attend but patients ineligible for thrombolysis are less likely to be invited.

OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with the uptake of cardiac rehabilitation following acute myocardial infarction. DESIGN Retrospective analysis using multivariate logistic regression modelling. SETTING Two large teaching hospitals in Nottingham. PATIENTS Cohorts of patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction in 1992 and 1996. INTERVENTIONS None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Fa...

Are women with an unintended pregnancy less likely to breastfeed?

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between unintended pregnancy and the initiation and duration of breastfeeding. STUDY DESIGN This was a secondary data analysis of the 1995 Cycle 5 of the National Survey of Family Growth. POPULATION We studied 6733 first singleton live births to US women aged 15 years to 44 years. OUTCOMES Using the 1995 Institute of Medicine definitions, pregnancies w...

Why women are less likely than men to commit suicide.

Major depression forms the background of upwards of half of all suicides. Women are twice as likely as men to experience major depression, yet women are one fourth as likely as men to take their own lives. Current and past explanations of this paradox are built on androcentric assumptions that women are deficient in some way. The reverse may be true where suicide is concerned. Men value indepen...

Are the Better Educated Less Likely to Support Militancy and Terrorism? Women Are

I use 2009 public opinion survey data from Pakistan to show that the relationship between education and support for terrorism varies by gender. Specifically: 1) as women become more educated, they are less likely to support militancy relative to similarly educated men, whereas uneducated women are more likely to support militancy relative to uneducated men, controlling for religiosity, demograp...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?