Women's Health

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "If I'm better than average, then I'm ok?": Comparative information influences beliefs about risk and benefits. 
  • "Una mujer trabaja doble aqui": Vignette-based focus groups on stress and work for Latina blue-collar women in eastern North Carolina. 
  • A Tribute to Kristina Orth-Gomér - an Outstanding Scientist for Women's Health in Behavioral and Psychosomatic Medicine. 
  • A five-step guide for moving from observational studies to interventional research for women veterans. 
  • A longitudinal study of the impact of chronic psychological stress on health-related quality of life and clinical biomarkers: Protocol for the Australian Healthy Aging of Women Study 
  • A new vulnerable population? The health of female partners of men recently released from prison. 
  • A suggested research agenda on treatment-outcome research for female victims of violence. 
  • ACC/AHA Guidelines for Exercise Testing. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on Exercise Testing). 
  • Absence of sex bias in the referral of patients for cardiac catheterization. 
  • Accounting for institutional change in health economic evaluation: a program to tackle HIV/AIDS and gender violence in Southern Africa. 
  • Acute response and chronic adaptation to exercise in women. 
  • Adjuvant hormonal therapy use among women with ductal carcinoma in situ. 
  • Advancing the study of stroke in women: summary and recommendations for future research from an NINDS-Sponsored Multidisciplinary Working Group. 
  • Alcohol consumption and breast cancer among black and white women in North Carolina (United States). 
  • Alcohol use among out-of-treatment crack using African-American women. 
  • An examination of general aggression and intimate partner violence in women with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Antidepressant Use, Depression, and Poor Cardiovascular Outcomes: The Chicken or the Egg?: Comment on "Antidepressant Use and Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality Among Postmenopausal Women in the Women's Health Initiative Study". 
  • Applying a Nursing Perspective to Address the Challenges Experienced by Cisgender Women in the HIV Status Neutral Care Continuum: A Review of the Literature. 
  • Are quit attempts among U.S. female nurses who smoke different from female smokers in the general population? An analysis of the 2006/2007 tobacco use supplement to the current population survey. 
  • Are we failing vulnerable workers? The case of black women in poultry processing in rural North Carolina. 
  • Are women worrying about heart disease? 
  • Assessing the incremental effects of combining economic and health interventions: the IMAGE study in South Africa. 
  • Association between non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and invasive breast cancer and carcinoma in situ of the breast. 
  • Associations between physical activity and postpartum depressive symptoms. 
  • Attitudes and intentions regarding abortion provision among medical school students in South Africa. 
  • Barriers to sexual and reproductive health care among widows in Nepal. 
  • Belief in numbers: When and why women disbelieve tailored breast cancer risk statistics. 
  • Beyond effectiveness: evaluating the public health impact of the WISEWOMAN program. 
  • Beyond fear: the role of peritraumatic responses in posttraumatic stress and depressive symptoms among female crime victims. 
  • Black Lives Matter: Claiming a Space for Evidence-Based Outrage in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 
  • Body mass index in multiethnic midlife women: influence of demographic characteristics and physical activity. 
  • Body size across the life course and risk of premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer in Black women, the Carolina Breast Cancer Study, 1993-2001. 
  • Breast cancer screening for women ages 50 to 69 years a systematic review of observational evidence. 
  • Building capacity in VA to provide emergency gynecology services for women. 
  • C-reactive protein: a novel marker of cardiovascular risk. 
  • COVID-19, Sex, Addictions, Women's Health, Care of the Elderly, and Medical Education. 
  • Cardiac Surgery in Women in the Current Era: What Are the Gaps in Care? 
  • Cardiovascular disease in women: are there solutions? 
  • Characteristics and Health Care Preferences Associated with Cardiovascular Disease Risk among Women Veterans. 
  • Childhood trauma and diurnal cortisol disruption in fibromyalgia syndrome. 
  • Choose to Challenge the Sexual and Reproductive Health Inequities of Women. 
  • Chronic pain in later life women: issues and challenges from the research literature. 
  • Communicating breast cancer risks to women using different formats. 
  • Contemporary homicide risks among women of reproductive age. 
  • Coping among victims of relationship abuse: a longitudinal examination. 
  • Coping styles and personality domains related to menopausal stress. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of WISEWOMAN, a program aimed at reducing heart disease risk among low-income women. 
  • Country perspectives on integrated approaches to maternal and child health: the need for alignment and coordination. 
  • Deciding Our Future: Consensus Conference Summary Report. 
  • Depression and insomnia in women. 
  • Development and external validation of a breast cancer absolute risk prediction model in Chinese population. 
  • Dialectical behavior therapy: current status, recent developments, and future directions. 
  • Diet and physical activity patterns of urban American Indian women. 
  • Disproportionately high risk of left ventricular hypertrophy in Indo-Asian women: a call for more studies. 
  • Do dehydroepiandrosterone, progesterone, and testosterone influence women's depression and anxiety levels? Evidence from hair-based hormonal measures of 2105 rural Indian women. 
  • Does it pay to pay people to share information? Using financial incentives to promote peer referral for mammography among the underinsured. 
  • Does study subject diversity influence cardiology research site performance?: Insights from 2 U.S. National Coronary Stent Registries. 
  • Effect of phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibition on microvascular coronary dysfunction in women: a Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) ancillary study. 
  • Effectiveness of telephone counseling for mammography: results from five randomized trials. 
  • Effectiveness-based guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in women--2011 update: a guideline from the American Heart Association. 
  • Efficacy of a woman-focused intervention to reduce HIV risk and increase self-sufficiency among African American crack abusers. 
  • Enrollment of women in cardiovascular clinical trials funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. 
  • Epigenetically mediated electrocardiographic manifestations of sub-chronic exposures to ambient particulate matter air pollution in the Women's Health Initiative and Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. 
  • Evaluation of lifetime trauma exposure and physical health in women with posttraumatic stress disorder or major depressive disorder. 
  • Evaluation of public health demonstration programs: the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of WISEWOMAN. 
  • Evidence-based guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention in women: 2007 update. 
  • Evidence-based guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention in women: 2007 update. 
  • Examining the correlates of engagement and disengagement coping among help-seeking battered women. 
  • Exercise and atherosclerotic heart disease in women. 
  • Expert Panel Recommendations on Lower Urinary Tract Health of Women Across Their Life Span. 
  • Exploring the Preferences of Women Regarding Sexual and Reproductive Health Care in the Context of Rheumatology: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Exposure assessment and gender differences. 
  • Factors Associated with Achievement of Clinically Significant Weight Loss by Women in a National Nonprofit Weight Loss Program. 
  • Family Planning Counseling for Women With Rheumatic Diseases. 
  • Feasibility of a tailored intervention to improve preventive care use in women. 
  • Female reproductive factors and major eye diseases in Asian women -the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Fifth Annual Go Red for Women Issue. 
  • For U.S. Black women, shift of hysterectomy to outpatient settings may have lagged behind White women: a claims-based analysis, 2011-2013. 
  • Fourth Annual Go Red for Women Issue. 
  • Gender Disparities in Adult Health: An Examination of Three Measures of Morbidity 
  • Gender trends in the repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms and outcomes. 
  • General internal medicine. 
  • Genetic Data from Nearly 63,000 Women of European Descent Predicts DNA Methylation Biomarkers and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Risk. 
  • Genetics and women's health issues--the commitment of EMS to women scientists and gender-associated disease topics. 
  • Genetics for the Women's Health Trainee: A Five-Module Curriculum. 
  • Giving birth at a health-care facility in rural China: is it affordable for the poor? 
  • Global disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality. 
  • Guidelines for the prevention of stroke in women: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. 
  • HIV and pregnancy: considerations for nursing practice. 
  • Have We Learned How to Use Bisphosphonates Yet? 
  • Health Behavior Profiles Among Midlife Women: Identifying At-Risk Subgroups for Metabolic Syndrome Using Latent Class Analysis. 
  • Health care access dimensions and cervical cancer screening in South Africa: analysis of the world health survey. 
  • Health status among women with menstrual symptoms. 
  • Heart Failure in Non-Caucasians, Women, and Older Adults: A White Paper on Special Populations From the Heart Failure Society of America Guideline Committee. 
  • Heart Failure in Women. 
  • Hispanic women's experiences with substance abuse, intimate partner violence, and risk for HIV. 
  • Hormone replacement therapy and the risk of colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis. 
  • How do residents prioritize smoking cessation for young "high-risk" women? Factors associated with addressing smoking cessation. 
  • Hypertension Care Coordination and Feasibility of Involving Female Community Health Volunteers in Hypertension Management in Kavre District, Nepal: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Identification of Symptom Clusters Among Midlife Menopausal Women with Metabolic Syndrome. 
  • Identification of high-risk symptom cluster burden group among midlife peri-menopausal and post-menopausal women with metabolic syndrome using latent class growth analysis. 
  • Identifying trajectories of depressive symptoms for women caring for their husbands with dementia. 
  • Impact of travel distance on WISEWOMAN Intervention attendance for a rural population. 
  • Improving care of chronic conditions for women veterans: identifying opportunities for comparative effectiveness research. 
  • Improving tracking of aid for women's, children's, and adolescents' health. 
  • In their own voices: a qualitative study of women's risk for intimate partner violence and HIV in South Africa. 
  • In vitro fertilization and acupuncture: clinical efficacy and mechanistic basis. 
  • Informal care and caregiver's health. 
  • Initiatives to improve access to behavioral health services in the Veterans Affairs Health System. 
  • Intentions to maintain adherence to mammography. 
  • Interdisciplinary research career development: building interdisciplinary research careers in women's health program best practices. 
  • Intimate partner physical assault before and during pregnancy: how does it relate to women's psychological vulnerability? 
  • Intimate partner violence against women. 
  • Investing in Global Health for Our Future. 
  • Is there a bias against performing coronary revascularization in women? 
  • JCL Roundtable: Lipidology and Women's Health. 
  • Knowledge gaps in reproductive and sexual health in girls and women with sickle cell disease. 
  • Latin America and the challenge of globalizing the history of sexuality. 
  • Laxative use and incident falls, fractures and change in bone mineral density in postmenopausal women: results from the Women's Health Initiative. 
  • Lessons from Initiating the First Veterans Health Administration (VA) Women's Health Practice-based Research Network (WH-PBRN) Study. 
  • Leukocyte Traits and Exposure to Ambient Particulate Matter Air Pollution in the Women's Health Initiative and Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. 
  • Lifetime number of ovulatory cycles and epithelial ovarian cancer risk in African American women. 
  • Lifting and Healing as We Climb: Women's Heart Month. 
  • Longitudinal predictors of nonadherence to maintenance of mammography. 
  • Lung cancer in women. 
  • Making epidemiologic studies responsive to the needs of participants and communities: the Carolina Breast Cancer Study experience. 
  • Management of preterm labor. 
  • Measuring disability and function in older women: psychometric properties of the late-life function and disability instrument. 
  • Medical and surgical management of coronary artery disease in women. 
  • Menopausal transition symptoms in midlife women living with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. 
  • Mental Health in Women With Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review on Depression and Hope. 
  • Methods for estimating medical expenditures attributable to intimate partner violence. 
  • Microfinance programs and better health: prospects for sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Mifepristone (RU-486®) as a Schedule IV Controlled Drug-Implications for a Misleading Drug Policy on Women's Health Care. 
  • Monitoring the randomized trials of the Women's Health Initiative: the experience of the Data and Safety Monitoring Board. 
  • Moving Women Veterans' Health Research Forward: a Special Supplement. 
  • Multidisciplinary Women's health research: the national centers of excellence in women's health. 
  • Multiparity is associated with high motivation to change diet among overweight and obese postpartum women. 
  • My Obstetrician Got Me Fired: How Work Notes Can Harm Pregnant Patients and What to Do About It. 
  • Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in women. 
  • Number of children and risk of metabolic syndrome in women. 
  • Outcome by Gender in the Veterans Health Administration Motivating Overweight/Obese Veterans Everywhere Weight Management Program. 
  • Overview of women's health. 
  • Patient anxiety before and immediately after imaging-guided breast biopsy procedures: impact of radiologist-patient communication. 
  • Patterns in On-time, Daily Submission of a Short Web-Based Personal Behavior Survey in a Longitudinal Women's Health Study. 
  • Patterns of intimate partner violence: correlates and outcomes. 
  • Perceived Feasibility, Acceptability, and Cultural Adaptation for a Mental Health Intervention in Rural Haiti. 
  • Perceived breast cancer risk: Heuristic reasoning and search for a dominance structure 
  • Perceived stress and everyday memory complaints among older adult women. 
  • Physical training and injury in female cadets at the United States Military Academy. 
  • Population density, distance to public transportation, and health of women in low-income neighborhoods. 
  • Positive emotions, physical disability, and mortality in older adults. 
  • Postmenopausal hormone use in women with acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder, hostility, and health in women: a review of current research. 
  • Predictors of mental health in midlife and older Australian women: A multilevel investigation. 
  • Premenopausal Hysterectomy and Risk of Ovarian Cancer in African-American Women. 
  • Preserving and advocating for essential care for women during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. 
  • Primary Prevention of Heart Failure in Women. 
  • Primary prevention with defibrillator therapy in women: results from the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial. 
  • Private religious activity and cardiovascular risk. 
  • Process evaluation of the Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE) in rural South Africa. 
  • Promoting Risk Identification and Reduction of Cardiovascular Disease in Women Through Collaboration With Obstetricians and Gynecologists: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. 
  • Providing research and research training infrastructures for clinical research in the reproductive sciences. 
  • Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Minority Women. 
  • Psychological and physical distress of sheltered battered women 
  • Psychosocial determinants of sustained maternal functional impairment: Longitudinal findings from a pregnancy-birth cohort study in rural Pakistan. 
  • Quality and Safety in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 
  • Quality of Care and Contraceptive Use in Urban Kenya. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care. 
  • Racial differences of lipoprotein subclass distributions in postmenopausal women. 
  • Racial/ethnic disparities in coronary heart disease risk factors among WISEWOMAN enrollees. 
  • Recall of three heart disease risk factor diagnoses among low-income women. 
  • Recruitment and retention of healthy minority women into community-based longitudinal research. 
  • Reduction of Peripartum Racial and Ethnic Disparities: A Conceptual Framework and Maternal Safety Consensus Bundle. 
  • Regarding Plan B: science and politics cannot be separated. 
  • Relationship Between Marital Transitions, Health Behaviors, and Health Indicators of Postmenopausal Women: Results from the Women's Health Initiative. 
  • Relationships of cardiac, pulmonary, and muscle reserves and frailty to exercise capacity in older women. 
  • Representation of women in randomized clinical trials of cardiovascular disease prevention. 
  • Reproductive Health and Liver Disease: Practice Guidance by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. 
  • Risk of unwanted sex for college women: evidence for a red zone. 
  • Sacral Neuromodulation: Determining Predictors of Success. 
  • Screening and early detection among racial and ethnic minority women. 
  • Self-Reported and objectively measured physical activity among a cohort of postpartum women: the PIN Postpartum Study. 
  • Self-rated health in Pakistan: results of a national health survey. 
  • Self-report versus ultrasound measurement of uterine fibroid status. 
  • Setting the stage: Research to inform interventions, practice and policy to improve women veterans' health and health care. 
  • Sex and gender in psychoneuroimmunology research: past, present and future. 
  • Sex differences in medical care after acute myocardial infarction: what can be done to address the problem? 
  • Sexual victimization, fear of sexual powerlessness, and cognitive emotion dysregulation as barriers to sexual assertiveness in college women. 
  • Sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy, and intimate partner violence 
  • Social inequalities, stressors and self reported health status among African American and white women in the Detroit metropolitan area. 
  • Spatial analysis of body mass index and smoking behavior among WISEWOMAN participants. 
  • Species and genotypic diversities and similarities of pathogenic yeasts colonizing women. 
  • Strategies for building a multidisciplinary academic program in women's health. 
  • Stress echocardiography in women. 
  • Support for Women Achieving Cardiovascular Health Through Exercise And Nutrition (SWAN) Study Pilot. 
  • Symptom experience and self-care strategies among healthy, midlife African-American women. 
  • Systematic review of women veterans' mental health. 
  • Teaching sensitivity to cultural issues in women's health care in a community hospital setting. 
  • Telehealth Interventions Designed for Women: an Evidence Map. 
  • Ten-Year Differences in Women's Awareness Related to Coronary Heart Disease: Results of the 2019 American Heart Association National Survey: A Special Report From the American Heart Association. 
  • The Association between Body Weight Misperception and Psychosocial Factors in Korean Adult Women Less than 65 Years Old with Normal Weight. 
  • The First National Summit on Women's Health: The Future of Obstetrics and Gynecology Training. 
  • The Impact of Endometriosis across the Lifespan of Women: Foreseeable Research and Therapeutic Prospects. 
  • The Impact of Endometriosis on the Health of Women. 
  • The Use of Sex-Specific Factors in the Assessment of Women's Cardiovascular Risk. 
  • The development of a primary care curriculum for obstetrics/gynecology residents. 
  • The effects of China's universal two-child policy. 
  • The exclusion of women from clinical trials of thrombolytic therapy: implications for developing the thrombolytic predictive instrument database. 
  • The impact of childhood maltreatment on PTSD symptoms among female survivors of intimate partner violence. 
  • The impact of environmental tobacco smoke on women's risk of dying from heart disease: a meta-analysis. 
  • The impact of familial Mediterranean fever on women's health. 
  • The relationship between social support, stress, and health among women on Detroit's East Side. 
  • The relationship of two types of trauma exposure to current physical and psychological symptom distress in a community sample of Colombian women: Why interpersonal violence deserves more attention 
  • The severity of vasomotor symptoms and number of menopausal symptoms in postmenopausal women and select clinical health outcomes in the Women's Health Initiative Calcium and Vitamin D randomized clinical trial. 
  • The significance of distant metastases in breast cancer. 
  • The unique DEK oncoprotein in women's health: A potential novel biomarker. 
  • Third Annual Go Red for Women Issue. 
  • To treat or not to treat: perceptions of the initial American Society for Reproductive Medicine COVID-19 recommendations among women's health providers. 
  • Toward optimal health: William P. Docken, M.D. and David S. Pisetsky, M.D., Ph.D. discuss arthritis in women. Interview by Jody R. Godfrey. 
  • Trauma-related symptoms and severity among women in the Pacific Rim. 
  • Triangulating differential nonresponse by race in a telephone survey. 
  • Tumor characteristics in African American and white women. 
  • Twelve-year follow-up of American women's awareness of cardiovascular disease risk and barriers to heart health. 
  • Unintended pregnancy and induced abortion among unmarried women in China: a systematic review. 
  • Unmet health needs identified by Haitian women as priorities for attention: a qualitative study. 
  • Using a short food frequency questionnaire to estimate dietary calcium consumption: a tool for patient education. 
  • Utilization of Standardized Mental Health Assessments in Anthropological Research: Possibilities and Pitfalls. 
  • Utilizing a Life Course Approach to Examine HIV Risk for Black Adolescent Girls and Young Adult Women in the United States: A Systematic Review of Recent Literature. 
  • Value of cardiovascular magnetic resonance stress perfusion testing for the detection of coronary artery disease in women. 
  • Violence, homelessness, and HIV risk among crack-using African-American women. 
  • Von Willebrand disease in women: awareness and diagnosis. 
  • What we know and what we still need to learn 
  • What's in a Name? Moving Away From "Women's Imaging". 
  • Willingness to participate in cardiac trials. 
  • Women Veterans' Experiences with Perceived Gender Bias in U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Specialty Care. 
  • Women and outpatient mental health services: use by black, Hispanic, and white women in a national insured population. 
  • Women's Coverage, Utilization, Affordability, And Health After The ACA: A Review Of The Literature. 
  • Women's Health Initiative clinical trials: potential interactive effect of calcium and vitamin D supplementation with hormonal therapy on cardiovascular disease. 
  • Women's Preventive Services Initiative's Well-Woman Chart: A Summary of Preventive Health Recommendations for Women. 
  • Women's health issues after ileal pouch surgery. 
  • Women's health issues with fibromyalgia syndrome. 
  • Women's resources and use of strategies as risk and protective factors for reabuse over time. 
  • Work and marital status in relation to depressive symptoms and social support among women with coronary artery disease. 
  • Working group on noncoronary cardiovascular disease and exercise in women. 
  • Working with licensed cosmetologists to promote health: results from the North Carolina BEAUTY and Health Pilot Study. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Gold, Deborah T., Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
  • Goldstein, Karen M., Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Humphreys, Janice Carrol, Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Myers, Evan Robert, Walter L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Sigal, Peter, Professor of History, History
  • Streilein, Annamarie Faust, Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program