Current alcohol use, hormone levels, and hot flashes in midlife women

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1483-1486

  Schilling, Chrissy ^a   Gallicchio, Lisa ^b   Miller, Susan R ^c   Langenberg, Patricia ^a   Zacur, Howard ^c   Flaws, Jodi A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MERCY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLIMACTERIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEAT SENSATION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SWEATING;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPERANCE;

EID: 34249670799     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.11.033     Document Type: Article

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