Attitudes toward menopause and aging across ethnic/racial groups

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 868-875

  Sommer, Barbara ^a   Avis, Nancy ^b   Meyer, Peter ^c   Ory, Marcia ^d   Madden, Tom ^c   Kagawa Singer, Marjorie ^e   Mouton, Charles ^f   O'Neill Rasor, Niki ^a   Adler, Shelley ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Attitudes; Ethnicity; Menopause; Women

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032754517     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006842-199911000-00023     Document Type: Article

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