Utah Women's Health Review
he United States is facing increasing rates of immigration and increasing numbers of undocumented immigrants. Immigration reform is a current legislative topic and many different approaches have been proposed. Government officials face challenging decisions regarding immigration regulation and public benefits for undocumented immigrants, particularly health care …
There are 59 ethnicities and nationalities represented in the state of Utah. More than 53 languages are spoken in Utah by persons of refugee status. This creates potential and existing communication barriers. To compound this matter, some refugee populations, including the Somali Bantu, did not have a written language in their respective countries. This makes telling time, reading calendars to make appointments, and dispensing health promotion literature ineffective …
In 2005, the United States had a household population of 2.4 million equally distributed among women and men. The overall median age was 28.5 years. Thirty percent of the total population was under 18 years and 8 percent was 65 years and older …
Every year stroke strikes approximately 750,000 Americans killing 160,000. This year over 100,000 U.S. women under age 65 will have a stroke. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and in Utah and twice as many women will die this year from a stroke than from breast cancer …
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common type of heart disease. CHD occurs when the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle become hardened and narrowed due to the buildup of plaque in the arteries. This buildup of plaque is called atherosclerosis. Plaques are a mixture of fatty substances including cholesterol and other fats …
Cholesterol is necessary for the formation of many hormones and as a structural component in the body’s cells. When cholesterol levels rise above that required by the body, the excess tends to be deposited in blood vessels—a condition called atherosclerosis …
There is strong evidence supporting the benefit of statin use in diabetic dyslipidemia for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The Adult Treatment Panel (ATP III) guidelines, an evidence-based report authored by the National Cholesterol Education Program, recommend that statin therapy be initiated in diabetic patients without regard to baseline blood cholesterol in all patients over the age of 40.
When all cancers are taken into
consideration, breast cancer has the highest rate of occurrence in women in the United States…
Since the advent of the Pap test, cervical deaths have steadily decreased since 1955, and are still continuing to decrease today …
Excluding skin cancer, colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in females in the United Stated and second most common in Utah. Cancer of the colon and rectum are very closely related and have many features in common. For this reason, researchers simply refer to them collectively as colorectal cancer. Death from colorectal …
