Symptoms, menopause status, and country differences: A comparative analysis from DAMES

Menopause

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 788-797

  Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf ^a,d   Reher, David ^b   Saliba, Matilda ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Country comparisons; Hot flashes; Lebanon; Menopausal symptoms; Morocco; Spain

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTHRALGIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMPLOYMENT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; LEBANON; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; MOROCCO; NERVOUSNESS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SLEEP DISORDER; SPAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEBANON; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34447321836     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e318046eb4a     Document Type: Conference Paper

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