Health screening of middle-aged women: what factors impact longevity?

Blümel, Juan E.; Aedo, Sócrates; Murray, Nigel P; Vallejo, María S.; Chedraui, Peter

doi:10.1097/gme.0000000000002025

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“…In addition, this is an exceptionally sensitive decade in which cardiovascular diseases frequently manifest themselves. Moreover, studies of middle-aged women can provide knowledge about factors which impact longevity [22,23].…”

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Trends in Health Behavior of Polish Women in 1986–2021: The Importance of Socioeconomic Status

Łopuszańska-Dawid

2023

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In the last 35 years Poland has undergone a series of fundamental economic, social, and biological transformations. With the transition from a centrally planned to a free-market economy, a period of economic and social transformation, Poland’s accession to the European Union, and the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, living conditions in the country have seen dramatic changes. The aim of this study was to assess whether there were changes in the basic health behaviors of Polish women, and if so, in what directions and with what strength, and whether there were differences in these changes depending on the socioeconomic status. Information on basic lifestyle factors (drinking alcohol, smoking, coffee drinking, and physical activity) and socioeconomic status (level of education, Gini coefficient, Gender Inequality Index, women total employment, employed women being in managerial positions, women among scientists) of 5806 women aged 40–50 years were analyzed. During the 1986–2021 period, based on the same methodology, team of technicians and research tools, six birth cohorts of women were examined in 1986, 1991, 1996, 2006, 2019 and 2021. Highly statistically significant changes were found in the frequencies of declared health behaviors from 1986–2021, according to the order of significance in coffee and alcohol consumption, physical activity levels, and smoking and smoking intensity. In subsequent cohorts, there were fewer and fewer women who did not drink coffee and alcohol, while more drank more than two cups of coffee a day and drank alcohol more often than 2× a week. Furthermore, they were more likely to be physically active, and slightly fewer were smokers. The lifestyles of the women were less likely to depend on their socio-economic status than the cohorts. In 1991 and 1996, there was a marked intensification of unhealthy behavior. Changes in the analyzed health behaviors may have been caused by adaptation to the high level of psychosocial stress observed during the transition of the 1986–2021 period and may result in changes in the biological condition and quality and length of life of Polish women. Research on social differences in health behavior provides an opportunity to analyze the biological effects of changes in the living environment.

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Trends in Health Behavior of Polish Women in 1986–2021: The Importance of Socioeconomic Status

Łopuszańska-Dawid

2023

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“…The aim of the article by Blumel et al 2 was to explore factors identifiable in women at midlife that were associated with longevity. In their study, Chilean female public servants aged 40 to 59 years were recruited between 1990 and 1993, and at that time, they provided a broad range of health and lifestyle information, as well as a blood sample.…”

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