Cross cultural analysis of factors associated with age at natural menopause among latin-american immigrants to madrid and their spanish neighbors

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 780-788

  Pérez Alcalá, Irene ^a   Sievert, Lynnette Leidy ^b   Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf ^c   Reher, David Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPAIN; STATISTICS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEMOGRAPHY; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; LIFE STYLE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 84886246938     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22447     Document Type: Article

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