The menstrual cycle: A biological marker of general health in adolescents

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1135, Issue , 2008, Pages 43-51

  Popat, Vaishali B ^a   Prodanov, Tamara ^a   Calis, Karim A ^b   Nelson, Lawrence M ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amenorrhea; Bone health; Delay in diagnosis; Estrogen deficiency; Hormone replacement therapy; Hypothalamic pituitary ovarian axis; Menstrual cycle; Primary amenorrhea; Secondary amenorrhea

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PROGESTERONE;

ADOLESCENT HEALTH; AMENORRHEA; ANAMNESIS; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; HIP FRACTURE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; OVARY; OVARY DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY AMENORRHEA; RISK FACTOR; VITAL SIGN;

EID: 45549105602     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1429.040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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