Female sexual dysfunction in iranian postmenopausal women: Prevalence and correlation with hormonal profile

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3154-3159

  Moghassemi, Sedigheh ^a   Ziaei, Saeideh ^b   Haidari, Zainab ^c  

^a GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c Department of Mathematics   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cross sectional; Female sexual dysfunction; Menopause; Sex; SHBG; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DYSPAREUNIA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRAN; LUBRICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGASM; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL AROUSAL DISORDER; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION;

EID: 80255131254     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2011.02335.x     Document Type: Article

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