Traversing the menopause: Changes in energy expenditure and body composition

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 799-803

  Poehlman, Eric T ^a,b   Tchernof, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LIPID STORAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; METABOLIC RATE; OBESITY; OVARY FUNCTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0032439942     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-199809120-00004     Document Type: Short Survey

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