Menopause status and attitudes in a Turkish midlife female population: An epidemiological study

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ayranci, Unal ^a   Orsal, Ozgul ^a   Orsal, Ozlem ^a   Arslan, Gul ^a   Emeksiz, Dursun F ^a  

^a Kurtulus Aile Sagligi Merkezi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEADACHE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MENOPAUSE; POPULATION RESEARCH; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WOMEN'S HEALTH; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DYSPAREUNIA; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TURKEY; URBAN POPULATION; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 77149176906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-10-1     Document Type: Article

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