Sexuality during the climacteric period

Maturitas

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 127-133

  da Silva Lara, Lucia Alves ^b   Useche, Bernardo ^a   Rosa e Silva, Julio Cesar ^b   Ferriani, Rui Alberto ^b   Reis, Rosana Maria ^b   de Sá, Marcos Felipe Silva ^b   de Carvalho, Bruno Ramalho ^b   Carvalho, Maria Ângela Cury Ramos ^b   de Sá Rosa e Silva, Ana Carolina Japur ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Climacterium; Hormone replacement therapy; Sexual dysfunction; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ESTRADIOL PLUS NORETHISTERONE ACETATE; ESTROGEN; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE; TIBOLONE; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

AGING; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ANORGASMIA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLIMACTERIUM; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSPAREUNIA; DYSURIA; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMININITY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LIBIDO; LUBRICATION; MEDLINE; ORGASM DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PSYCHOLOGICAL BALANCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SELF ESTEEM; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA BLEEDING; VAGINAL BURNING SENSATION; VAGINAL DRYNESS; VAGINAL PRURITUS;

CLIMACTERIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEXUALITY;

EID: 60749100309     PISSN: 03785122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2008.12.014     Document Type: Review

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