Recalling age at menopause

Menopause

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 248-249

  Sievert, Lynnette Leidy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CLIMACTERIUM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREGNANCY; PUBERTY; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 18644373176     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.GME.0000163191.19167.5B     Document Type: Editorial

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