Dietary and lifestyle predictors of age at natural menopause and reproductive span in the Shanghai Women's Health Study

Menopause

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 924-933

  Dorjgochoo, Tsogzolmaa ^a   Kallianpur, Asha ^a   Gao, Yu Tang ^b   Cai, Hui ^a   Yang, Gong ^b   Li, Honglan ^b   Zheng, Wei ^a   Shu, Xiao Ou ^a,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI CANCER INSTITUTE   (China)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age at onset of menopause; Dietary intake; Physical activity; Reproductive span; Smoking; Tea; Weight gain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CALORIC INTAKE; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HUMAN; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; PARITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN INTAKE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCTION; SMOKING; TEA; WEIGHT GAIN; CHINA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; TIME; URBAN POPULATION; VEGETABLE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; CHINA; DIET; DIETARY PROTEINS; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FRUIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VEGETABLES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 58249093167     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3181786adc     Document Type: Article

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