Background & aim: Demands for more children have substantial effects on couple’s fertility behaviors. The ideal number of children for most Iranian’s family is two, so that it is reasonable to study which factors determine women’s decision to have a third child. The main aim of this study was to examine factors affecting the demand for a third child (DTC). Methods: This cross-sectional study wa...

OBJECTIVES Midlife women's knowledge, positive attitudes and management toward menopause may improve the quality of peri and post-menopause life. This study was to identify correlations of the knowledge, attitude, symptoms and management toward menopause in middle-aged women. METHODS We used a cross-sectional questionnaire study applying to 231 perimenopausal and menopausal women aged from 40...

Background: Study question: what is the effect of advanced aged in pregnant women using assisted reproductive technology on the rate of miscarriages? Summary answer: the advanced age effects on the rate of miscarriages. What is known already: It is well known that miscarriage risk increases with age. The proportion of women giving birth after 35 years of age has risen considerably in developing...

BACKGROUND In 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended biennial mammography screening for women aged 50 to 74 years and selective screening for those aged 40 to 49 years. PURPOSE To review studies of the effectiveness of breast cancer screening in average-risk women. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE and Cochrane databases to 4 June 2015. STUDY SELECTION English-language randomized, c...

Despite greater knowledge about gender (in)equality issues, women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are still largely portrayed in stereotypical ways in the media. We sought to uncover what both academic research and mainstream US and UK media communicate relative to the topic of women in STEM, in general, and women in computing, in particular. The notion of image cente...

To investigate if an association exists in parous women between metoclopramide-induced prolactin (PRL) release and chronological age at first full-term pregnancy and to compare their response to a group of non-parous women, we studied 139 healthy, non-lactating women, aged 15.8-48.2 years, on days 18-22 of their menstrual cycle (except two post-menopausal women). There were 61 parous women divi...

1. Bone mineral content of the second, third and fourth lumbar vertebrae was determined in normal women and women with clinical osteoporosis by using dual-photon (153Gd) absorption. 2. A cross-sectional study of 70 normal (aged 19-88 years) showed a bone loss of 44% from the age of around 34 years throughout life. 3. Longitudinal data from 59 normal women confirmed that the vertebral bone loss ...

insufficient sleep may lead to adverse cardio-metabolic effects by influencing body weight, blood pressure, and glucose tolerance. we aimed to assess the relation between sleep duration and indices of obesity including body mass index (bmi) and waist circumference in a sample population in central iran. we selected a sub-sample of 1770 individuals from isfahan healthy heart program. the data re...