Menopause across cultures: Clinical considerations

Menopause

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 421-423

  Sievert, Lynnette Leidy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLIMACTERIUM; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HORMONAL THERAPY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MENOPAUSE; OVARIECTOMY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SWEATING; VAGINAL DRYNESS; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; LIFESTYLE; MIDDLE AGED;

ATTITUDE; CULTURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84897519933     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GME.0000000000000099     Document Type: Article

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