In 2015, women aged ≥18 years were more likely than men, overall and for each age group except those aged ≥65 years, to have seen or talked to a doctor or other health professional about their own health in the past 12 months. For both sexes, visits to a doctor or other health care professional increased with age, from 63.1% among men aged 18-29 years to 93.2% among men aged ≥65 years and from ...

This issue of Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) offers fresh perspectives on the relationships among life stages, health behavior, and chronic disease. We include several reports from a survey of childbearing women in Cameron County, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, designed to support action by the United States-Mexico Border Health Association (1). PCD has addressed border health prev...

BACKGROUND Age related changes in the immune system have been studied frequently but a possible relation to sex has not, to our knowledge, previously been examined. The effect of age and sex on the composition of lymphocyte subsets in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid and peripheral blood was therefore examined. METHODS Bronchoscopy with lavage was performed in 32 healthy non-atopic, non-smo...

Background—Age related changes in the immune system have been studied frequently but a possible relation to sex has not, to our knowledge, previously been examined. The eVect of age and sex on the composition of lymphocyte subsets in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid and peripheral blood was therefore examined. Methods—Bronchoscopy with lavage was performed in 32 healthy non-atopic, nonsmoking...

With 1 million new cases in the world each year, breast cancer is the commonest malignancy in women and comprises 18% of all female cancers. In the United Kingdom, where the age standardised incidence and mortality is the highest in the world, the incidence among women aged 50 approaches two per 1000 women per year, and the disease is the single commonest cause of death among women aged 40-50, ...

OBJECTIVES We examined the social distribution of a comprehensive range of cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) in a Swiss population and assessed whether socioeconomic differences varied by age and gender. METHODS Participants were 2960 men and 3343 women aged 35-75 years from a population-based survey conducted in Lausanne, Switzerland (CoLaus study). Educational level was the indicator of so...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relations between subjective social status, and objective socioeconomic status (as measured by income and education) in relation to male/female middle aged mortality rates across 150 sub-regions in Hungary. DESIGN Cross sectional, ecological analyses. SETTING 150 sub-regions of Hungary. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS 12,643 people were interviewed in the Hungaro-study ...

AIM To review the evidence on the benefits, harms and costs of breast cancer screening for women aged 40 to 49 years in New Zealand. METHODS A review of the two most recently published meta-analyses of breast cancer screening, combined with a web-based literature search and review. RESULTS The meta-analyses demonstrated that mammography reduces breast cancer mortality among women aged 40 to...