Menopausal transition: Predicting time to menopause for women 44 years or older from simple questions on menstrual variability

Menopause

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 40-48

  Taylor, Sylvia M ^a,b,c   Kinney, Ann M ^a,c   Kline, Jennie K ^a,d,e  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Menopausal transition; Menopause; Menstrual variability; Perimenopause

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; NIGHT SWEAT; PREDICTION; PREMENOPAUSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME; FOLLOW UP; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; ONSET AGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2442708224     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.GME.0000074820.41532.50     Document Type: Article

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