Age at menarche in a Chuvashian rural population

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 390-397

  Kalichman, Leonid ^a   Malkin, Ida ^a   Livshits, Gregory ^a   Kobyliansky, Eugene ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chuvashian population; Menarche; secular trend

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MENARCHE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENARCHE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; RUSSIA;

EID: 33747184006     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: 14645033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014460600747855     Document Type: Article

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