Is menstrual cycle stage a confounder in population-based psychiatric research?

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1435-1439

  Schwartz, S ^a   Lincoln, A ^a   Levav, I ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISRAEL; JEW; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMORBIDITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; JUDAISM; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0030844102     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003329179700514X     Document Type: Article

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