Acupuncture for postmenopausal hot flashes

Maturitas

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 383-395

  Nir, Yael ^a   Huang, Mary I ^a   Schnyer, Rosa ^b   Chen, Bertha ^a   Manber, Rachel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Hot flash; Menopause; Needles; Placebo

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PLACEBO; THYROTROPIN;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; MUSCLE TWITCH; PAIN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESTLESSNESS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; AGED; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947189920     PISSN: 03785122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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