objective: the aim of this study was to investigate prenatal and obstetrical outcome in mothers aged 40 years or older. materials and methods: a prospective comparative study was conducted for the women aged 40 years and over who delivered at 20 week's gestation or beyond from january 2004 to december 2005 at four hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences. for comparison, a control gro...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of age on glucose metabolism by examining 1) glucose metabolism in young and middle-aged subjects when total or regional adiposity is taken into account and 2) in vitro glucose transport in adipose tissue explants from young and middle-aged women paired for total and abdominal adiposity. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Study 1: body composition, subcutaneous abdomin...

introduction: menopause is one of the critical stages in a woman’s life that can influence their health during middle age. takeing into account the prevalence of depression as a psychological problem during menopausal period, this study was conducted to determine the prevalence of depression and its relative factors in different stages of menopause in women residing in kermanshah city, 2003. ma...

This technical report describes the participation of women in computing in more than 30 countries, by focussing on participation at undergraduate level. A brief discussion covers how societal and cultural factors may affect women’s participation. Statistics from many different sources are presented for comparison. Generally, participation is low – most countries fall in the 10-40% range with a ...

This paper seeks to provide an input towards developing the proposal for the research project, “Pathways of Women’s Empowerment” to investigate the determinants of women’s empowerment where and when it occurs. It primarily attempts to give an overview of the trends in research, thinking and programmes in Pakistan from 1975 onwards in the area of women’s empowerment and bodily integrity in order...

abstract background: for infertile women aged over 35 years, failure of the zp (zona pellucida) to rupture is believed to be associated with a decreased implantation rate in in vitro fertilization (ivf) or intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (icsi). objective: in this research, laser assisted hatching (lah) was offered to patients with advanced maternal age to evaluate a possible benefit. materia...

In 2016, 3.8% of men and 2.6% of women aged ≥18 years currently used e-cigarettes. Among men, current e-cigarette use decreased with advancing age, from 7.1% among men aged 18-24 years to 4.8% among men aged 25-49 years, 2.6% among men 50-64 years, and 1.1% among men aged ≥65 years. Among women, current e-cigarette use increased between ages 18-24 years (2.3%) and 25-49 years (3.3%) and decreas...

BACKGROUND Two additional key populations within the general population in South Africa (SA) that are at risk of HIV infection are black African women aged 20 - 34 years and black African men aged 25 - 49 years. OBJECTIVE To investigate the social determinants of HIV serostatus for these two high-risk populations. METHODS Data from the 2012 South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, ...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to describe the trends in body mass index (BMI) during 6 years (2002 - 2008) and to identify associations between these trends and the amount of physical activity of South Korean career soldiers. METHOD This study targeted the 40 993 (38 857 men and 2136 women) of the 58 657 career soldiers who had undergone four (2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008) biennial medical ...