Longitudinal changes in body composition in women approaching the midlife

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 253-265

  Sowers, M F ^a   Crutchfield, M ^a   Jannausch, M L ^a   Russell Aulet, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LIFESTYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIECTOMY; PARITY; PATHOLOGY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LIFE STYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIECTOMY; PARITY;

EID: 0030135306     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014469600004472     Document Type: Article

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