It showed a 61% decrease in heart attacks for women who took hormones after menopause.
In fact, 48% of the women who took soy experienced hot flashes, compared with just 31% percent of those in the placebo group.
For the 3, 500 patients in the study, the cancer came back in around 40% of the women who took tamoxifen for five years, compared to 46% among those who took it for two years.
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If the findings by a team of doctors are to be believed, 40% of the men and 56% of the women who took their lives in 2010 were aged between 15 and 29 years.
In total, 75 women aged 31 to 56, who had undergone a hysterectomy or had their ovaries removed took part in the study.
All told, women who took folic acid supplements before and early in pregnancy were 39% less likely to have autistic children.
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The U.S. quartet included Allyson Felix and Carmelita Jeter, who took gold and bronze, respectively, in the women's 200-meter run, and Tianna Madison and Bianca Knight.
Dr. Dlamini-Zuma recalled the objectives of PAWO and the pioneering spirit of African women who founded it, many of whom took part in national liberation movements and other political and armed struggles, sometimes even at the highest price of their lives.
They found that the rate of obesity among the women, who were aged 50 when the study took place, was higher than in the general population.
Even Marian Jordan, the founder of Redeemed Girl Ministries who speaks to women "about the unfailing love that she has found in Jesus, " took a crack at the market.
Cashmore took bronze in the women's S9 100m backstroke behind Canada's Stephanie Dixon, who also broke the world record, and South Africa's Natalie du Toit.
Women who gave birth naturally on average spent one day in hospital after the delivery, those who needed instruments took two days to be discharged, and those who underwent caesareans did not go home for four days on average.
But, there was a trade-off: More women who took the supplement needed their labor to be induced or had caesarean sections because the babies stayed in the womb longer, said Dr. Makrides.
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