Time-related trends of age at menopause and reproductive period of women in a Chuvashian rural population

Menopause

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 135-140

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

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chuvashian population; Menopause; Reproductive period; Secular trend

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCTION; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREND STUDY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; RUSSIA;

EID: 33846062182     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.gme.0000227862.35226.21     Document Type: Article

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