A population-based assessment of midlife Portuguese women's experience of perimenopause and menopause

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 559-580

  Fagulha, Teresa ^a   Gonçalves, Bruno ^a   Ferreira, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MENOPAUSE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PORTUGAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WEIGHT GAIN;

FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PORTUGAL; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 79960349270     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2010.540155     Document Type: Article

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