Profile of menopausal women in west Anatolian rural region sample

Maturitas

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 247-254

  Discigil, Guzel ^a   Gemalmaz, Ayfer ^a   Tekin, Nil ^a   Basak, Okay ^a  

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Age; Climacteric symptoms; Menopause; Rural; Turkish women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLIMACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY MENOPAUSE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIBIDO DISORDER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MARRIAGE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PARITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUN EXPOSURE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; TURKEY;

EID: 33748697402     PISSN: 03785122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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