Abdominal adiposity and hot flashes among midlife women

Menopause

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 429-434

  Thurston, Rebecca C ^a,c,f   Sowers, MaryFran R ^b   Sutton Tyrrell, Kim ^c   Everson Rose, Susan A ^d   Lewis, Tené T ^e   Edmundowicz, Daniel ^a   Matthews, Karen A ^a,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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

^d RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal adiposity; Body fat; Central adiposity; Hot flashes; Menopause; Vasomotor symptoms

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY FAT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OVARY; THERMOREGULATION; UTERUS;

ADIPOSITY; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PERIMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

EID: 43249122155     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e31815879cf     Document Type: Article

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