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Increased physical activity could reduce the chance of heavy menstrual periods in women who are overweight or obese, a University of Queensland-led study has found.
Dr Gabriela Mena, from UQ’s School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, examined the associations between physical activity and body mass index with irregular periods and heavy menstrual bleeding in more than 10,000 young Australian women.
“Women who were overweight or obese had higher odds of both irregular periods and heavy menstrual bleeding than women who were underweight or of normal weight,” Dr Mena said.
“Women who were highly active had 10 per cent lower odds of heavy menstrual bleeding than women who reported no physical activity.
Good morning Michael, how are you?
I’m good, you?
Good thank you.
My thanks to James for joining me today as well. My shout out today is to everybody in Australia who’s involved in the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccines. And that includes not just the people delivering the vaccines but also Australians right across the country who are receiving the vaccines. What we know about the COVID-19 vaccines, is that they are incredibly effective at preventing the development of serious illness or death in people who are exposed to the Coronavirus and who develop COVID-19.
So thank you, thank you to everybody involved in our vaccine rollout and thank you to everybody who is continuing to roll up to get their vaccines.
The Australian government has abandoned its ambitious targets to have the adult population vaccinated by the end of October. It has, in fact, abandoned having any target.
We all sometimes find ourselves in tough positions and just want to call it a day. But this decision is not what we should expect from the nation’s leaders when so much is at stake. It also goes against decades of research and evidence on the importance of goal-setting.
In January Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the plan was to have four million Australians vaccinated by the end of March, and the entire adult population by the end of October. At the start of April, however, the actual number was less than 842,000. (As of April 15 the number was just over 1.4 million doses.)
Suspensions of the AstraZeneca vaccine for under 50s could delay the time it takes for Queenslanders lives to return to normal. The warning comes as Queensland goes a week without a locally acquired case of COVID-19. One new cases was recorded on Saturday - acquired overseas and detected in hotel quarantine. There are now 63 active cases across the state.
It s been one week since Queensland last recorded a locally acquired case
It’s critical if there are any cases in our community that we find them.
So if you have any symptoms at all, stay home and arrange a test immediately. #covid19aupic.twitter.com/4tSrYoH954 Annastacia Palaszczuk (@AnnastaciaMP) April 9, 2021
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