Menstrual cycle length disorders in 18- to 40-y-old obese women

Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 317-320

  Castillo Martínez, Lilia ^a   López Alvarenga, Juan Carlos ^a   Villa, Antonio R ^a   González Barranco, Jorge ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Amenorrhea; Menstrual cycle; Mexico; Obesity grades; Oligomenorrhea; Waist to hip ratio; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MEXICO; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; OLIGOMENORRHEA; OUTPATIENT; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AMENORRHEA; BODY CONSTITUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MEXICO; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OLIGOMENORRHEA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037382530     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-9007(02)00998-X     Document Type: Article

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