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Health Risk Patterns Among Lesbians, Bisexual Women Increase Rates Of Cancer, Other Chronic Diseases.
2001 MAY 10- (NewsRx Network) -- Health risk patterns among lesbians and bisexual women leave them at greater risk of cancer and other chronic diseases linked to smoking and obesity than heterosexual women, according to a new University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health study.
The study, led by UCLA epidemiologist Susan D. Cochran and published in the April 2001 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, showed that lesbian and bisexual women have higher rates of obesity, alcohol use, and tobacco use, and lower rates of parity and birth control pill use than other women.
The study found that these women also were less likely to have health insurance coverage or to have had a recent pelvic examination or mammogram. Self-reported histories of breast cancer, however, did not differ from estimates for the general U.S. female population.
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