A major 12-year study of 86,000 nurses aged 34 to 59 showed that women over 50 who consumed between 1 and 20 drinks per week had a lower risk of death, particularly from cardiovascular disease, than nondrinkers.
Depression appears at least twice as often in American women as in American men.
Women of Asian background have a higher frequency of acne than women in other ethnic groups. A black spot that suddenly appears on the white of the eye could be melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer. Migraines are 2 to 3 times more common in women than in men and involve a whole complex of symptoms, including numbness, prickling, tingling, nausea, vomiting, intolerance to light or sound, depression, and irritability. With approximately 590,000 operations performed each year, hysterectomy is second only to cesarean section as the most frequently performed major operation in the United States. The modern woman is said to be drowning in a sea of stress.