Hot flushes and quality of life during menopause

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Luoto, Riitta ^a,b  

^a UKK INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN;

BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HORMONAL THERAPY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MENOPAUSE; NOTE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; SMOKING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VAGINAL DRYNESS; VASOMOTOR DISORDER; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DRUG EFFECT; ESTROGEN THERAPY; LIFESTYLE; MIDDLE AGED;

ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 66949118968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-9-13     Document Type: Note

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