Hot flashes and sleep: Curious or spurious link?

Menopause

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 991-992

  Carpenter, Janet S ^a   Yu, Menggang ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; EDITORIAL; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INSOMNIA; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PARAMETERS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 84885183671     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GME.0b013e3182a29bf2     Document Type: Editorial

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