Hot flashes: The ongoing search for effective interventions

Menopause

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 719-721

  Kadakia, Kunal C ^a   Loprinzi, Charles L ^a   Barton, Debra L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TAMOXIFEN;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANXIETY; BREAST CANCER; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; EDITORIAL; EMOTION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; LEISURE; MENOPAUSE; MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION; MOOD; NIGHT SWEAT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; YOGA;

COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; HYPERHIDROSIS; MENOPAUSE;

EID: 84863507202     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3182578d31     Document Type: Editorial

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