Pregnancy and birth history influence women's experience of menopause

Menopause

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 435-441

  Hess, Rachel ^a,b   Olshansky, Ellen ^c   Ness, Roberta ^a,b   Bryce, Cindy L ^a,b   Dillon, Stacey ^a   Kapoor, Wishwa ^a,b   Chang, Chung Chou Ho ^a,b   Matthews, Karen A ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertility; Hot flashes; Menopause; Vaginal dryness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NULLIPARA; PARITY; PREGNANCY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT T TEST; SYMPTOM; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; GRAVIDITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PREGNANCY; QUALITY OF LIFE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 43249095487     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3181598301     Document Type: Article

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