Climacteric vasomotor symptoms do not imply autonomic dysfunction

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 155-164

  Virtanen, Irina ^a   Polo Kantola, Päivi ^a   Erkkola, Risto ^a   Polo, Olli ^a   Ekholm, Eeva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERPNEA; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLIMACTERIC; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 0032899673     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1999.tb08216.x     Document Type: Article

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