The menopause triggers hearing decline in healthy women

Hearing Research

Volumn 259, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 31-35

  Hederstierna, C ^a   Hultcrantz, M ^a   Collins, A ^a   Rosenhall, U ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Audiometry; Estrogen; Female; Left; Right

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND INTENSITY;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 73449109097     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.09.009     Document Type: Article

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