Menstrual bleeding patterns: A community-based cross-sectional study among women aged 18-45 years in Southern Brazil

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Santos, Iná S ^a   Minten, Gicele C ^a   Valle, Neiva C J ^a   Tuerlinckx, Giovana C ^a   Silva, Alessandra B ^a   Pereira, Guilherme A R ^a   Carriconde, Joaquim F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD CLOT; BRAZIL; COMMUNITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; WAITING ROOM; ADOLESCENT; AGE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAZIL; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957966679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-11-26     Document Type: Article

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