Sex hormones, sleep, and core body temperature in older postmenopausal women

Sleep

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1788-1794

  Murphy, Patricia J ^a,b   Campbell, Scott S ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Laboratory of Human Chronobiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Body temperature; Postmenopausal women; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; SLEEP; SLEEP PARAMETERS;

EID: 36849004633     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/30.12.1788     Document Type: Article

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