Hypoactive sexual desire disorder in postmenopausal women: Quality of life and health burden

Value in Health

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 763-772

  Biddle, Andrea K ^a   West, Suzanne L ^a   D'Aloisio, Aimee A ^a   Wheeler, Stephanie B ^a,b   Borisov, Natalie N ^b   Thorp, John ^a,c  

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PROCTER AND GAMBLE PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Health related quality of life; Hypoactive sexual desire disorder; Menopause; Sexual dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIBIDO DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFILE OF FEMALE SEXUAL FUNCTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 67650082854     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4733.2008.00483.x     Document Type: Article

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