Reported symptoms before and one year after hysterectomy in African American and white women

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1035-1042

  Moorman, Patricia G ^a   Schildkraut, Joellen M ^a   Myers, Evan R ^b   Wang, Frances ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EXHAUSTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE DISEASE; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SLEEP DISORDER; SWEATING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UTERUS WEIGHT; VAGINAL DRYNESS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FEMALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79960275001     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: 1931843X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2010.2543     Document Type: Article

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