- SYDNEY (ANI) -- Most women
wear bra everyday but none of them have ever questioned whether they have
any health impact.
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- Researchers from the University of Western Sydney are
now investigating whether that could be the case, studying the impact of
wearing bra on a woman's breathing, blood pressure and fluid drainage from
the breast.
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- Osteopathy students Angie Bruce, Lee Muddle and Fiona
Peat are looking for 50 women to take part in their two-day study, which
will examine the physiological differences in a woman who is wearing a
bra and when she is braless.
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- They are keen to examine the effect of bras on women
because it is a subject few, if any, researchers have studied. One area
of particular interest is how the constrictions of a bra affect fluid drainage
in the breast, which has been flagged as a possible link to cancer.
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- "Research shows that just under 50 percent of breast
cancer cases can be attributed to genetics, hormones and things like that.
That means there's about 50 percent of cancer cases that are unexplained",
Muddle said.
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- If the study found a change in the level of fluid drainage,
it could lay the foundations for further research on its possible link
to breast cancer.
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- "If we find that wearing a bra impacts positively
or negatively on a woman's health it will have significant ramifications
for all women. Perhaps it will influence the duration of daily wear and
the design and manufacture of brassieres", Muddle said.
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