Do South Asian women with PCOS have poorer health-related quality of life than Caucasian women with PCOS? A comparative cross-sectional study

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jones, Georgina L ^a   Palep Singh, Manisha ^b   Ledger, William L ^c   Balen, Adam H ^d   Jenkinson, Crispin ^e   Campbell, Michael J ^a   Lashen, Hany ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN   (United Kingdom)

^d LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT FORM 36; ASIA; BLOOD; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ASIA, WESTERN; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 78650277246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-8-149     Document Type: Article

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