Changes in sexual functioning and sex hormone levels in women following bariatric surgery

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 26-33

  Sarwer, David B ^a   Spitzer, Jacqueline C ^a   Wadden, Thomas A ^a   Mitchell, James E ^b   Lancaster, Kathryn ^b   Courcoulas, Anita ^c   Gourash, William ^c   Rosen, Raymond C ^d   Christian, Nicholas J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Southeast Campus   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FEMALE BY MARITAL STATUS; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE SEXUAL FUNCTION INDEX; GASTRIC BANDING; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SEXUALITY; SHORT FORM 36; STOMACH BYPASS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; GASTROPLASTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

ADULT; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; GASTROPLASTY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84892699635     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2013.5022     Document Type: Article

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