Using longitudinal profiles to characterize women's symptoms through midlife: Results from a large prospective study

Menopause

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 549-555

  Mishra, Gita D ^a   Dobson, Annette J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age at menopause; Health symptoms; Latent class analysis; Longitudinal profiles; Vasomotor symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BURNING SENSATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ENTEROPATHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HAY FEVER; HEADACHE; HEARTBURN; HEMORRHOID; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; JOINT STIFFNESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; MIGRAINE; NIGHT SWEAT; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUSITIS; THORAX PAIN; URINE INCONTINENCE; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINITIS; VASOMOTOR DISORDER;

CHEST PAIN; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEARTBURN; HEMORRHOIDS; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SWEATING; URINARY INCONTINENCE; VAGINAL DISCHARGE; VAGINITIS;

EID: 84860722222     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3182358d7c     Document Type: Article

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