Female reproductive factors and risk of seizure or epilepsy: Data from the Nurses' Health Study II

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Dworetzky, Barbara A ^a   Townsend, Mary K ^b   Pennell, Page B ^a   Kang, Jae H ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Hormones; Menstrual irregularities; Oral contraceptives; Women

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MENARCHE; NURSES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; WOMEN;

EID: 84855459914     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03308.x     Document Type: Article

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