Effect of moderate-intensity exercise in alleviating menopausal symptoms

Menopause

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 372-374

  Rice, Valerie Montgomery ^a  

^a MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; KINESIOTHERAPY; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE;

EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE;

EID: 4644241300     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.GME.0000134181.75710.52     Document Type: Editorial

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