Sexuality during the perimenopause

Current Women's Health Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 470-474

  Romm, Jillian ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGING; ANAMNESIS; CLIMACTERIUM; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIBIDO; MOOD DISORDER; NIGHT SWEAT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; UROGENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION AND REPRODUCTION; ADULT; EMOTION; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CLIMACTERIC; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEXUALITY; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 1542443318     PISSN: 15345874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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