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Depression and percent body fat in American women, ages 39-49Grace Wyshak
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Health Care Women Int 32:99-110. 2011..My findings may aid health and mental health care providers in the management and treatment of patients seen in settings with limited resources...
Percent body fat, fractures and risk of osteoporosis in womenG Wyshak
Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Nutr Health Aging 14:428-32. 2010..This paper uses an innovative, virtually cost-free method to estimate percent body fat from age, height and weight, and assesses its validity by examining the association between percent body fat and fractures among women 39 and older...- Tubal ligation and the risk of vertebral fracturesGrace Wyshak
Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, MA 02115, USA
Osteoporos Int 16:651-8. 2005..These results need to be confirmed in other cohorts--the pathophysiology of this association is worthy of further study... - Menopausal symptoms and psychological distress in women with and without tubal sterilizationGrace Wyshak
Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Psychosomatics 45:403-13. 2004..24, 95% CI = 0.90-5.60). The menopausal and psychological symptoms of women with tubal sterilization should be taken seriously and treated appropriately... - Behavioral practices and mortality in women former college athletes and nonathletesGrace Wyshak
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Care Women Int 24:808-21. 2003..Other behavioral risk factors were ever-smoking and not currently engaging in regular exercise. Behavioral practices that include not smoking, doing regular exercise, and consuming moderate amounts of alcohol may lead to lower mortality... - Health ratings in relation to illnesses, physical functioning, general mental health and well-being: self-reports of college alumnae, ages <40-80 and olderGrace Wyshak
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Qual Life Res 12:667-74. 2003.... - Behavior, heredity, and diabetes in college alumnaeGrace Wyshak
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Womens Health Gend Based Med 11:549-54. 2002..The study was first conducted in 1981-1982, and a follow-up study was conducted in 1996-1997... - Violence, mental health, substance abuse-problems for women worldwideG Wyshak
Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Health Care Women Int 21:631-9. 2000.... - Infertility in American college alumnaeG Wyshak
Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 73:237-42. 2001..The objective of this paper is to present data on prevalence of infertility, causes and treatments based on self-reports of a sample of American college alumnae... - Teenaged girls, carbonated beverage consumption, and bone fracturesG Wyshak
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 154:610-3. 2000..To determine the possible association between carbonated beverage consumption and bone fractures among teenaged girls given the awareness of the concern about the impact of carbonated beverage consumption on children's health... - Underweight, smoking, exercise and mortality in womenG Wyshak
Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Nutr Health Aging 11:65-8. 2007..The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between being underweight (BMI < 19), as well as behavioral practices and medical conditions, and mortality in women... - Psychosocial training in U.S. internal medicine and family practice residency programsE H Gaufberg
The Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Acad Med 76:738-42. 2001..This study investigated the psychosocial training internal medicine and family practice residents receive in U.S. programs... - Adverse birth outcomes among native-born and immigrant women: replicating national evidence regarding Mexicans at the local levelA Cervantes
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A C, Division de Economia, Lomas de Santa Fe, Mexico, D F
Matern Child Health J 3:99-109. 1999..S.) born women of Mexican origin, non-Hispanic White and Black women, and Puerto Rican Women... - Physical well-being and school enrollment: a comparison of adopted and biological children in one-child families in ChinaJihong Liu
Oregon Office of Family Health, 800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 370, Portland, OR 97232, USA
Soc Sci Med 59:609-23. 2004..These results suggest that adopted children were as healthy and well-fed as biological children, but adopted children aged 7-14 years were less likely to be enrolled in school than biological children... - Family background and geniusAlbert Rothenberg
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Can J Psychiatry 49:185-91. 2004..However, the early and still-influential statistical studies of Frances Galton on the inheritance of genius have neither been supported nor definitively refuted. This study empirically assesses the hereditary transmission hypothesis... - Yoga ameliorates performance anxiety and mood disturbance in young professional musiciansSat Bir S Khalsa
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 34:279-89. 2009..Our results suggest that yoga and meditation techniques can reduce performance anxiety and mood disturbance in young professional musicians... - Women's college physical activity and self-reports of physician-diagnosed depression and of current symptoms of psychiatric distressG Wyshak
Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachesetts 02115, USA
J Womens Health Gend Based Med 10:363-70. 2001..The findings support the Surgeon General's promotion of the health benefits of physical activity... 
Breast cancer among former college athletes compared to non-athletes: a 15-year follow-upG Wyshak
Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Br J Cancer 82:726-30. 2000..These results confirm our earlier findings and the findings of other investigators...- Prevalence of primary infertility in China: in-depth analysis of infertility differentials in three minority province/autonomous regionsJihong Liu
Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
J Biosoc Sci 37:55-74. 2005.... - Hypochondriacal patients, their physicians, and their medical careA J Barsky
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
J Gen Intern Med 6:413-9. 1991..In addition, the presence of DSM-III-R hypochondriasis impairs the physician's accuracy in assessing the levels of the patient's anxiety and depression... - Factors affecting adoption in China, 1950-87Jihong Liu
Office of Family Health, Oregon Department of Human Services, Portland, OR 97232, USA
Popul Stud (Camb) 58:21-36. 2004..Women who had experienced the death of a child were more likely to adopt than those who had not. Women with children may have used adoption as a strategy to circumvent the strict family planning policies...