Should new-onset arthralgia be considered a menopausal symptom?

Menopause

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 591-593

  Kaunitz, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN PLUS MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; LEUPRORELIN; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE; TAMOXIFEN;

ARTHRALGIA; ARTHROPATHY; ARTHROPLASTY; ASIAN; BODY MASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLIMACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; ESTROGEN THERAPY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MOOD DISORDER; POSTMENOPAUSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UTERUS MYOMA; VAGINAL DRYNESS;

ARTHRALGIA; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84879184161     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e31828a6a3d     Document Type: Review

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