Climacteric complaints among very low-income women from a tropical region of Brazil

Sao Paulo Medical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 214-218

  de Medeiros, Sebastião Freitas ^a,c,d   Yamamoto de Medeiros, Márcia Marly Winck ^b   de Oliveira, Vivaldo Naves ^c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITÁRIO JÚLIO MÜLLER   (Brazil)

^b Tropical Institute of Reproductive Medicine and Menopause   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Climacteric; Culture; Hot flashes; Social class; Tropical climate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSOMNIA; LIBIDO DISORDER; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANCHOLIA; MEMORY DISORDER; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; NERVOUSNESS; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TROPICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VASOMOTOR DISORDER;

EID: 33750944927     PISSN: 15163180     EISSN: 15163180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-31802006000400008     Document Type: Article

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