Determinants of sexual activity in four birth cohorts of Swedish 70-year-olds examined 1971-2001

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 401-410

  Beckman, Nils ^a   Waern, Margda ^a   Östling, Svante ^a   Sundh, Valter ^a   Skoog, Ingmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cross Sectional; Determinats of Sexuality; Men and Women; Older People Sexuality; Sexual Concerns in Human Senescense; Sweden

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SLEEP; SWEDEN; AGING; COITUS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL; DETERMINATS OF SEXUALITY; MARRIAGE; MEN AND WOMEN; OLDER PEOPLE SEXUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SATISFACTION; SEXUAL CONCERNS IN HUMAN SENESCENSE; SEXUALITY; VERY ELDERLY;

CROSS-SECTIONAL; DETERMINATS OF SEXUALITY; MEN AND WOMEN; OLDER PEOPLE SEXUALITY; SEXUAL CONCERNS IN HUMAN SENESCENSE; SWEDEN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COITUS; CORONARY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALITY; SWEDEN;

EID: 84905903794     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12381     Document Type: Article

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