Breast Health Information: Messages That Appeal to Young Women and Older Women of Color

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 232-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Simonian ◽  
Susan Brown ◽  
Donna Bell Sanders ◽  
Cheryl Kidd ◽  
Veronica Estrella Murillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Breast Health

Social Support, Well-Being, and Risk Behaviors in Young Women of Color

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney L. Whitt ◽  
Stephanie L. Donnelly ◽  
Greer Findura ◽  
Guerda Nicolas
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Well Being

Identity of Distance: How Economically Marginalized Black and Latina Women Navigate Risk Discourse and Employ Feminist Ideals

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranita Ray
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
Teen Mothers ◽  
Latina Women ◽  
Teen Motherhood ◽  
Economically Marginalized ◽  
Marginalized Women ◽  
Risk Discourse

Abstract Racialized and classed “risk” narratives of sexuality in the United States construct economically marginalized young women of color as sexually precocious, potential teen mothers who are likely to end up as burdens on the state. Some scholars underline the utility of recognizing reproductive inequalities involved in constructing teen motherhood as an unequivocal social problem, and they stress the importance of exploring teen mothers’ agency in navigating dominant risk narratives. Fewer studies analyze how young women who are not pregnant or parenting produce, reproduce, and challenge dominant risk narratives about their sexuality. Drawing on three years of intensive fieldwork among 13 young economically marginalized black and Latina women, I demonstrate how feminist ideologies of empowerment interact with pervasive risk narratives in the everyday lives of marginalized women coming of age in the “shadow of the women’s movement.” My observations show that the young women strategically navigate circulating risk narratives about their sexuality by constructing an identity of distance characterized by feminist ideals of independence, self-respect, and self-development to distance themselves from these narratives. However, as they construct this identity of distance, they also stigmatize young mothers and police their own bodies and the bodies of their friends and sisters. I draw on women-of-color feminism to reflect on the uncomfortable relationship—evident in the process of a group of young women’s identity construction—between feminist ideologies of empowerment and bourgeois heteronormativity that marginalizes young women’s sexualities by constructing teen motherhood as inherently problematic.

CERVICAL CANCER AMONG 39 YEARS OR YOUNGER FEMALES IN SOUTH INDIA; A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-17
Author(s):  
B Ramkumar ◽  
Srigopal Mohanty ◽  
Kiranmayee Narapaneni ◽  
Amit Saklani ◽  
J Kannan
Keyword(s):  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Retrospective Study ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Clinicopathological Characteristics ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Younger Women ◽  
Ciency Virus ◽  
Chi Square Test

Background: Cervical cancer in young women is rare and disparity exists in its characteristics in the available reports. The study aimed to determine the disease burden and to compare its clinicopathological characteristics with older women. Materials and methods: Retrospective study was performed by retrieving data from the cancer registry for consecutive 843 cervical cancer patients treated in the center between 2017 and 2020. Patients were divided into younger (<40 years) and older (≥ 40 years) age. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS software version 23 for windows. Chi square test was used for analyzing the categorical variables and P < 0.05 was considered signicant. Results: Cervical cancer in young women constituted 9.4%, with majority (96.2%) belonged to 30-39 years age. Higher prevalence of human immunodeciency virus (HIV) was found among younger compared to older women (P = 0.000). Younger women commonly presented late compared to older women (patients presented after 4 months are 49.4% vs. 18.8% respectively, P=0.000). Squamous cell carcinoma was commonest histology in both the groups and no difference in histology pattern between the two groups. Younger women had higher rate of bulky tumor (>4cm) compared to older (62.2% vs. 44.4%, P = 0.023). Conclusion: Delayed and advanced stage of presentation of cervical cancer in younger women in this region of India warrants promotion of health education, knowledge translation, regular cervical cancer screening for its prevention and early detection

scholarly journals Greater Influence of Aerobic Fitness on Autonomic Support of Blood Pressure in Young Women Than in Older Women

Hypertension ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 1497-1504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Baker ◽  
Jacqueline K. Limberg ◽  
Zachariah M. Scruggs ◽  
Timothy B. Curry ◽  
Wayne T. Nicholson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Aerobic Fitness ◽  
Autonomic Support

Reference intervals for plasma lipoperoxides: age-, sex-, and specimen-related variations.

1987 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 2289-2291 ◽  
Author(s):  
J A Knight ◽  
S E Smith ◽  
V E Kinder ◽  
H B Anstall
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Sodium Citrate ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Reference Intervals ◽  
Female Adult ◽  
Experimental Animals ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Younger Men

Abstract We measured lipoperoxides, as malondialdehyde (MDA), by liquid chromatography in plasma from 230 male and 148 female adult blood donors, to establish reliable reference values and to compare possible sex-, age-, and specimen-related differences. Our studies show that mean have higher MDA concentrations in plasma than do women (P less than 0.05), older men have higher values than younger men (P less than 0.05), and older women have higher values than young women (P less than 0.001). These age-related results support earlier studies in experimental animals that lipid peroxidation increases with increasing age. In addition, plasma from liquid EDTA-anti-coagulated blood has significantly lower MDA concentrations than does serum or plasma from blood treated with lithium heparin, sodium citrate, or CPDA-1 (P less than 0.001).

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