The impact and management of symptoms experienced at midlife: A community-based study of women in northeast Scotland

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 554-564

  Duffy, O K ^a   Iversen, L ^a   Hannaford, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community; hot flushes; management; menopause; night sweats; vaginal dryness

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CLONIDINE; ESTROGEN; LUBRICATING AGENT; PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AMNESIA; ANXIETY; BLOATING; BOTHERSOMENESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEADACHE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; JOINT STIFFNESS; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASSAGE; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MIGRAINE; MOOD DISORDER; NIGHT SWEAT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFLEXOLOGY; REIKI; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SKIN DISEASE; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED KINGDOM; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINAL DRYNESS; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCOTLAND; SLEEP DISORDERS; SWEATING; URINATION DISORDERS; VAGINAL DISEASES;

EID: 84858439191     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2012.03276.x     Document Type: Review

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