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What Women Want: Understanding Obesity and Preferences for Primary Care Weight Reduction Interventions among African-American and Caucasian Women
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Purpose: To explore attitudes and perceptions of obesity, and identify preferences for weight-management interventions by African-American and Caucasian women who were followed in general internal medicine clinics.
Procedure: Surveys exploring these issues were mailed to African-American (n=240) and Caucasian (n=240) women with a BMI of ≥30.
Main Findings: Caucasian women felt past weight-loss efforts were helped by weight-loss programs significantly more than African-Amer...
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What Women Want: Understanding Obesity and Preferences for Primary Care Weight Reduction Interventions among African-American and Caucasian Women
Journal of the National Medical Association
; Purpose: To explore attitudes and perceptions of obesity, and identify preferences for weight-management interventions by African-American and Caucasian women who were followed in general internal medicine clinics. Procedure: Surveys exploring these issues were mailed to African-American (n=240)
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Groundbreaking behavioral study of Black women
New Pittsburgh Courier
; In the first report to provide a full attitudinal and behavioral portrait of African-American women, as well as highlighting the psychographic differences between African-American and Caucasian women, Essence Communications partners, publishers of ESSENCE magazine, announced the findings of the
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New report on attitudinal and behavioral portrait of Black women
Miami Times
; Publishers of Essence magazine, essence Communications Partners (ECP) have announced the findings of the WOW Report - Window on Our Women. The report is the first to provide a full attitudinal and behavorial portrait of African-American women. The study, which also touches on the psychographic
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Questons and Answers from the NWHN Women's Health Information Clearinghouse.(breast cancer and ethnicity)
The Network News
; Q. I am an African-American woman interested in the role that ethnicity plays in the development of breast cancer. Do you have any information on this? A. African-American women have an overall lower incidence of breast cancer than Caucasian women and an overall higher incidence than Latinas. In a
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Women's Health Snapshots.(brief articles on women's health questions)
The Network News
; Women with a choice of contraception are more likely to use contraception. When women who were on the pill and at risk for STDs were offered nonoxynol-9 film as well as condoms, and received counseling on the benefits of two simultaneous barrier methods, they were more likely to not only use
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The influence of race on heart failure in African-American women.(CE Series)
MedSurg Nursing
; ... ballot initiative barfing use of race data would compromise public health. Retrieved October 14, 2004, from http://www.apha.org/news/press.2003/cali_race.htm Behera, S.K., Winkleby, M.A., & Collins, R. (2000). Low awareness of cardiovascular disease risk ...
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EVALUATION OF DECISION RULES FOR IDENTIFYING LOW BONE DENSITY IN POSTMENOPAUSAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN
Journal of the National Medical Association
; ... Suzuki G, et al. Performance of osteoporosis risk indices in a Japanese population. Curr Ther Res. 2001;62:586-594. 18. Adler RA, Tran MT, Petkov VI. Performance of the osteoporosis self-assessment screening tool for osteoporosis in American men. Mayo Clin Proc ...
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OSTEOPOROSIS SCREENING IS UNJUSTIFIABLY LOW IN OLDER AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN
Journal of the National Medical Association
; Background: More than one million Americans suffer osteoporotic fractures yearly, resulting in a marked increase in morbidity and mortality. Despite a decrease in bone mineral density with increasing age in all ethnic groups and both genders, preventative and therapeutics efforts in osteoporosis
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Minority Women More Likely to Link Good Health to Happiness, Spirituality and Family
U.S. Newswire
; To: MEDICAL EDITORS Contact: Amber McCracken of National Women's Health Resource Center, +1-888-406-9472 National Womens Health Resource Centers New Annual WOMEN TALK Survey Reveals Differences in Health Attitudes Across Ethnic Populations RED BANK, N.J., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- African-
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Karmanos Cancer Institute Research Supports Role of Inflammation to Determine Lung Cancer Risk, Particularly in African-American Women
U.S. Newswire
; To: STATE EDITORS Contact: CONTACTS: Linda Remington (San Diego), +1-313-820-1414, or Patricia A. Ellis (Detroit), +1-313-576-8629, cell: +1-313-410- 3417, both of the Karmanos Cancer Institute SAN DIEGO, April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
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