Sexual Satisfaction and Cardiovascular Disease: The Women's Health Initiative

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 295-301

  McCall Hosenfeld, Jennifer S ^a,b   Freund, Karen M ^b   Legault, Claudine ^c   Jaramillo, Sarah A ^c   Cochrane, Barbara B ^d   Manson, JoAnn E ^e   Wenger, Nanette K ^f   Eaton, Charles B ^g   McNeeley, S Gene ^h   Rodriguez, Beatriz L ⁱ   Bonds, Denise ^j  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^h WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Cardiovascular diseases; Cohort studies; Menopause; Physiological; Postmenopause; Sexual dysfunction, Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIBIDO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 40949083831     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2007.11.013     Document Type: Article

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