Daily menstrual blood loss and quality of life in women with heavy menstrual bleeding

Women's Health

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 503-511

  Lukes, Andrea S ^a   Baker, Jeffrey ^b   Eder, Scott ^c   Adomako, Tammie L ^d  

^a Carolina Women's Research   (United States)

^b Rosemark WomenCare Specialists   (United States)

^c Women's Health Research Center   (United States)

^d Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc USA   (United States)

Author keywords

health related quality of life; heavy menstrual bleeding; menorrhagia; tranexamic acid; womens health

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIRAL UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUATION; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TRANEXAMIC ACID; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865803302     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/whe.12.36     Document Type: Article

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