Sleep in women across the life cycle from adulthood through menopause

Medical Clinics of North America

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 705-736

  Moline, Margaret L ^a,b,d   Broch, Lauren ^a,b,c   Zak, Rochelle ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Good Samaritan Hospital Suffern   (United States)

^d EISAI INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN PLUS MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; HORMONE; LYNESTRENOL; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; METHYLPHENIDATE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PROGESTERONE;

ADULTHOOD; ANATOMY; AROUSAL; BREATHING DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; DYSMENORRHEA; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPERSOMNIA; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; LACTATION; LIFE CYCLE; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PARASOMNIA; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREGNANCY; PREMENSTRUAL DYSPHORIC DISORDER; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUERPERIUM; REM SLEEP; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER;

CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; DYSMENORRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREMENOPAUSE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 1842850809     PISSN: 00257125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2004.01.009     Document Type: Review

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