Reproductive aging, sexuality and symptoms

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 380-387

  Chervenak, Judi L ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

dyspareunia; female sexual dysfunction; gonadal insufficiency; Hypoactive sexual desire disorder; vaginismus

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLONIDINE; DANAZOL; DIGOXIN; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INDOMETACIN; KETOCONAZOLE; LITHIUM; LUBRICATING AGENT; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; PHENYTOIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SPIRONOLACTONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGING; ANDROGEN THERAPY; ANXIETY; COGNITION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPAREUNIA; ESTROGEN THERAPY; EXHAUSTION; FAMILY; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HEALTH; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HUMIDIFIER; HYPOACTIVE SEXUAL DESIRE DISORDER; MASTURBATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; ORGASM DISORDER; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; RELIGION; REVIEW; SEXUAL AROUSAL DISORDER; SEXUAL AVERSION DISORDER; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRESS; SYMPTOM; VAGINA ATROPHY; VAGINAL DRYNESS; VAGINISM; VULVOVAGINAL DISCOMFORT;

AGING; AROUSAL; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; GONADAL DISORDERS; HORMONES; HUMANS; LIBIDO; ORGASM; POSTMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VAGINISMUS;

EID: 77957271480     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1262897     Document Type: Review

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