Weight gain during menopause: Is it inevitable or can it be prevented?

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 47-56

  Simkin Silverman, Laurey R ^a   Wing, Rena R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior ^*

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESTROGEN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MENOPAUSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK FACTOR; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0034282776     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2000.09.1.1204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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