East is east and West is west: Perspectives on the menopause in Asia and the West

Climacteric

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-28

  Baber, R J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b North Shore Private Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES; MENOPAUSE; SYMPTOMS

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ASIA; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY INTAKE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPE; HEALTH SERVICE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT;

AFFECT; AFRICA; AGE FACTORS; ASIA; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CULTURE; ESTRADIOL; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENOPAUSE; METABOLIC DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84892700814     PISSN: 13697137     EISSN: 14730804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13697137.2013.830607     Document Type: Review

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