Female sexual dysfunction: A nontraditional risk factor for cardiovascular disease

Current Sexual Health Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 208-212

  Bailey, Laurie A ^a   Hoffman, Donna ^b  

^a AURORA HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDLINE; MENOPAUSE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONHUMAN; ORGASM DISORDER; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREECLAMPSIA; REVIEW; SEXUAL AROUSAL DISORDER;

EID: 60149094315     PISSN: 15483584     EISSN: 15483592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11930-008-0036-3     Document Type: Review

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