Cross-Sectional Study of Differences in Speech Understanding between Users and Nonusers of Estrogen Replacement Therapy

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 195-204

  Helfer, Karen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DICHOTIC LISTENING; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; PRESBYACUSIS; PREVALENCE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VISION;

AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PRESBYCUSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 1542615228     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730490274257     Document Type: Article

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