Sexuality, midlife, and menopause

Menopause

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 221-222

  Dennerstein, Lorraine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH STATUS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; OVARIECTOMY; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUALITY;

FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUALITY;

EID: 40449108558     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e31815f98c5     Document Type: Editorial

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