Prevalence of vasomotor, psychological, psychosomatic and sexual symptoms in perimenopausal and recently postmenopausal Greek women: Association with demographic, life-style and hormonal factors

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 125-128

  Grigoriou, Vasileios ^a   Augoulea, Areti ^a   Armeni, Eleni ^a   Rizos, Demetrios ^a   Alexandrou, Andreas ^b   Dendrinos, Spyridon ^a   Panoulis, Konstantinos ^a   Lambrinoudaki, Irene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hot flushes; Menopausal symptoms; Revalence; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GREECE; GREENE CLIMACTERIC SCALE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; RATING SCALE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; VASOMOTOR DISORDER; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, HUMAN; GREECE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENOPAUSE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERIMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 84871456070     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: 14730766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09513590.2012.708801     Document Type: Article

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