Sex steroids and sleep: Sleep disturbances in menopause

Annales d'Endocrinologie

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 152-156

  Polo Kantola, P ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; GESTAGEN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; NORETHISTERONE ACETATE; NORGESTREL; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE DERIVATIVE; SEX HORMONE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; REM SLEEP; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SWEATING;

AGED; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 0037988966     PISSN: 00034266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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