Statistics and medicine have always had some ties with one another in Western medical philosophy, with the numerical analysis making it easier to paradoxically both specify and generalize patients. Populations are divided by gender, then by age, and then by even more demographics, all in an effort to find out which groups are more likely to develop which illnesses. At the same time, the numbers are used to analyze whether or not medication would be effective on a large enough size of the population to be useful. Each segment of the population undergoes varying degrees of scrutiny and study, with various sections showing medical commonalities. One of these groups would be women’s health issues, particularly around the ages of
25 to 40.
Stress, believe it or not, counts among the most prominent women’s health issues in the aforementioned age group. The triggers for stress tend to vary widely from person to person, but there are a couple of causes that can be considered common, regardless of demographic. Professional careers, family life, social pressures, and parental care can all bear down on a woman in this age group. Juggling all of these has never...