Women's Health Issues
Volume 14, Issue 6 , Pages 220-226 , November 2004

Staging the menopausal transition: Data from the TREMIN Research Program on Women’s Health

  • Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Women’s Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield, PhD, Professor, Women’s Studies Program, 102 Willard Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.
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  • Molly Carey, BS

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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  • Amy Anderson, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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  • Susannah Heyer Barsom, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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  • Patricia Bartholow Koch, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

Received 24 March 2004 ,Revised 19 May 2004 ,Accepted 2 August 2004.

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PII: S1049-3867(04)00074-X

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2004.08.002

Women's Health Issues
Volume 14, Issue 6 , Pages 220-226 , November 2004