Meta-analysis suggests that smoking is associated with an increased risk of early natural menopause

Menopause

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 126-132

  Sun, Lu ^a   Tan, Lijun ^a   Yang, Fang ^b   Luo, Yi ^a   Li, Xi ^a   Deng, Hong Wen ^a,c   Dvornyk, Volodymyr ^d  

^a HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Age at natural menopause; Meta analysis; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; EARLY MENOPAUSE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LATE MENOPAUSE; MENOPAUSE; META ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDLINE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PHENOTYPE; SMOKING;

EID: 84856511162     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e318224f9ac     Document Type: Article

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