Summary : Osteoporosis and fracture risk among women with HIV in Latin America is understudied. In a sample of Peruvian women with and without HIV, women with HIV had lower femoral neck and total hip BMD and a higher ...

The aim of the study was to compare the physical activity level and intensity of the upper and lower limbs in Brazilian women who are usually active, functionally independent, and living in a medium size city. Seventy-two ...

The present study has been designed to determine the median age at menopause in women resident in Lima, the capital of the Republic of Peru, an urban place located at sea level, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in South ...

Objective: We aimed to evaluate which risk factors in middle-aged women are associated with higher risk of multimorbidity in older age. Study design: We conducted a prospective cohort study from 1990 to 1993 in Santiago ...

Originally carried out for her PhD dissertation, this important piece of research by Joan Rawlins is based on the complex lives of midlife and older women from the working-class community of August Town and the middle-class ...

The objective of this paper is to determine whether age has any impact on conception rate, pregnancy outcome, or autoimmune status in women with recurrent spontaneous abortions (RSA) and infertility of immune etiology. One ...