Why are women with obesity more likely to develop breast cancer

Are angry men more likely to develop cardiovascular disease?

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 alcoholic women more likely to drink premenstrually?

A retrospective questionnaire study of alcoholic women attending a clinic for abstaining alcoholics, a voluntary agency and a drop-in centre for people with alcohol problems was conducted over a 2-year period. The women were asked whether they experienced premenstrual symptoms based on Halbreich et al.'s Premenstrual Assessment Form (PAF) [Halbreich et al. (1982) Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica ...

Patients treated with a tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitor are more likely to develop extrapulmonary tuberculosis

Copyright © 2013 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. pISSN 1226-3303 eISSN 2005-664...

Are Aboriginal people more likely to be diagnosed with more advanced cancer?

OBJECTIVE To determine whether Aboriginal people in New South Wales were diagnosed with more advanced cancer than non-Aboriginal people. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Cross-sectional study of cancer cases, excluding lymphohaematopoietic cancers and cancers of unknown primary site, diagnosed in NSW in 2001-2007. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Spread of disease at time of cancer diagnosis. RESULTS...