'Feeling hot, hot, hot': Is there a role for exercise in the management of vasomotor and other menopausal symptoms?

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 143-145

  Daley, Amanda J ^a   Stokes Lampard, Helen ^a   MacArthur, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MENOPAUSE; NIGHT SWEAT; NOTE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VASOMOTOR DISORDER;

EXERCISE; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 34447343641     PISSN: 14711893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1783/147118907781004958     Document Type: Note

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