Effect of war on the menstrual cycle

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 929-932

  Hannoun, Antoine B ^a   Nassar, Anwar H ^a   Usta, Ihab M ^a   Zreik, Tony G ^a   Abu Musa, Antoine A ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEBANON; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAR;

EID: 34147158793     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000257170.83920.de     Document Type: Article

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