PART 1: Introduction to Clinical Medicine
6 Womens Health
 | Figure 6-1 Death rates per 100,000 population for 2006 by 5-year age groups in U.S. women. Note that the scale of the y axis is increased in the graph on the right compared with that on the left. Accidents and HIV/AIDS are the leading causes of death in young women 20–34 years of age. Accidents,... |
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 | Figure 6-2 Trends in perceived greatest health problem among women by survey year. Data for obesity were not available for 1997 and 2000. Significantly more women cited heart disease/heart attack as the greatest health problem for women in 2006 compared with previous survey years. Breast cancer remained the most commonly identified... |
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 | Figure 6-3 Hospital mortality rates in men and women for acute myocardial infarction in 1994–95 compared with 2004-06. Women younger than age 65 years had substantially greater mortality than men of similar age in 1994–95. Mortality rates declined markedly for both sexes across all age groups in 2004–06 compared with... |
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