Sleep and the menopause – do postmenopausal women experience worse sleep than premenopausal women?

Menopause International

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 97-104

  Kalleinen, Nea ^a   Polo Kantola, Päivi ^a   Himanen, Sari Leena ^b   Alhola, Paula ^a   Joutsen, Atte ^b   Urrila, Anna S ^c   Polo, Olli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cognition; estrogen; menopause; mood; sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP STAGE; AGING; CLIMACTERIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GROUPS BY AGE; HORMONAL THERAPY; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOOD; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; REM SLEEP; SLEEP TIME; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SOMNOLENCE; TREATMENT DURATION; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SLEEP DISORDERS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SLEEP STAGES;

DESOGESTREL PLUS ETHINYLESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN;

EID: 56149086217     PISSN: 17540453     EISSN: 17540461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/mi.2008.008013     Document Type: Article

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