| Description |
xviii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I. Psychosocial and lifestyle issues. Socioeconomic gradients in health among men and women / Manning Feinleib and Lillian M. Ingster -- Gender differences in response to drugs and environmental toxicants / Donald R. Mattison -- Gender and depression / Joyce T. Bromberger -- Cognition and frailty in older women : socioeconomic and physiologic influences / Anne B. Newman -- Violence against women / Elaine J. Alpert. II. Sex steroid hormones. Hormones in women / Kathleen |
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D. Ryan -- Sex steroid hormonal influences on coronary artery disease / Elaine Meilahn -- Hormonal influences on osteoporosis and fractures : an epidemiologic perspective / Jane A. Cauley and Frances Leslie Lucas -- Epidemiology of breast cancer / Lewis H. Kuller -- Epidemiology of polycystic ovary syndrome / Evelyn O. Talbott ... [et al.]. III. Anatomy of the genital tract and immunology. Anatomy of the female and male genital tracts / Giuliana Trucco -- Basic |
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principles of immunology and genital tract immunity / Peggy A. Crowley-Nowick -- Urinary incontinence / Kathryn L. Burgio ⁵ [et al.] -- Anatomic influences on sexually transmitted bacterial diseases / Roberta B. Ness -- Autoimmune diseases / Susan Manzi and Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman. IV. Effects of reproduction and contraception on women's health. Oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy / Lewis H. Kuller and Roberta B. Ness -- Contraceptive choices and |
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sexually transmitted infections among women / Willard Cates, Jr. -- Maternal health effects of pregnancy / Donna Kritz-Silverstein. |
| Subject |
Women -- Diseases.
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Sex factors in disease.
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
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Women's Health.
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Contraception.
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Estrogen Replacement Therapy.
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Genitalia, Female.
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Reproduction.
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Sex Factors.
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| Added Author |
Ness, Roberta B.
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Kuller, Lewis H., 1934-2022
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| ISBN |
0195113969 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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