Anxiety, hormonal changes, and vasomotor symptoms during the menopause transition

Menopause

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 242-245

  Woods, Nancy Fugate ^a   Mitchell, Ellen Sullivan ^a   Landis, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXY 3 METHOXYPHENYLETHYLENE GLYCOL; ADRENALIN; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ANDROGEN; CLONIDINE; ESTROGEN; NORADRENALIN; YOHIMBINE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANXIETY; AWARENESS; BODY MASS; CLIMACTERIUM; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; INCOME; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; OCCUPATION; OVARY FUNCTION; PREVALENCE; RACE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; THERMOREGULATION; VASOMOTOR DISORDER;

ANDROGENS; ANXIETY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNCERTAINTY; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 18644376841     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.GME.0000161054.45892.01     Document Type: Editorial

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