Relationship between menopause and health-related quality of life in middle-aged Chinese women: A cross-sectional study

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Kuo ^a   He, Liu ^b   Tang, Xun ^a   Wang, Jinwei ^a   Li, Na ^c   Wu, Yiqun ^a   Marshall, Roger ^d   Li, Jingrong ^e   Zhang, Zongxin ^e   Liu, Jianjiang ^c   Xu, Haitao ^c   Yu, Liping ^c   Hu, Yonghua ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c Fangshan District Bureau of Health   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e First Hospital of Fangshan District   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ADULT; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING;

EID: 84892528867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-14-7     Document Type: Article

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