Secular trends in age at menarche, smoking, and oral contraceptive use among Israeli girls

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Chodick, Gabriel ^a   Huerta, Michael ^a   Balicer, Ran D ^a   Davidovitch, Nadav ^a   Grotto, Itamar ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MENSTRUATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MENSTRUATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33745931299     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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