Menopausal symptoms and ethnicity: The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation

Women's Health

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 127-133

  Green, Robin ^a   Santoro, Nanette ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Hispanic; Hot flashes; Menopause; Vasomotor symptoms

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPAREUNIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IRRITABILITY; JAPANESE; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; MOOD CHANGE; NERVOUSNESS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACISM; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; VAGINAL DRYNESS; VASOMOTOR DISORDER; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ADULT; ETHNOLOGY; HOT FLUSH; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 67650160595     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17455057.5.2.127     Document Type: Article

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