Change in health-related quality of life over the menopausal transition in a multiethnic cohort of middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation

Menopause

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 860-869

  Avis, Nancy E ^a   Colvin, Alicia ^b   Bromberger, Joyce T ^c   Hess, Rachel ^d   Matthews, Karen A ^c   Ory, Marcia ^e   Schocken, Miriam ^a,f  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Health related quality of life; Menopause; SF 36; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE; SHORT FORM 36; SLEEP DISORDER; STRESS; URINE INCONTINENCE; VASOMOTOR DISORDER;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROLE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 70449352346     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3181a3cdaf     Document Type: Article

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