Increasing our understanding of women's sexuality at midlife and beyond

Menopause

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1149-1151

  Shifren, Jan L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN PLUS MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; PLACEBO;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS; CLIMACTERIUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFECT; DYSPAREUNIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH STATUS; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPOACTIVE SEXUAL DESIRE DISORDER; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTION; PREMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SELF EVALUATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINA ATROPHY; VAGINA PAIN; VAGINAL DRYNESS; VASOMOTOR DISORDER; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTMENOPAUSE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 80255126278     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e31823161fe     Document Type: Review

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