Evaluation and management of sleep disturbance during the menopause transition

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 404-421

  Joffe, Hadine ^a   Massler, Anda ^a   Sharkey, Katherine M ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

apnea; hot flash; insomnia; menopause; PLMD; Sleep

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN PLUS MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; DIENOGEST; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL PLUS NORETHISTERONE ACETATE; ESTROGEN; ESZOPICLONE; GESTAGEN; HYPNOTIC AGENT; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE; ZOLPIDEM;

AGING; ANXIETY DISORDER; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; REVIEW; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 77956955960     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1262900     Document Type: Review

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