| Autor: |
Quevedo L, Iván, Flores O, Maritza, Castillo N, Marcelo |
| Jazyk: |
Spanish; Castilian |
| Rok vydání: |
2005 |
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| Zdroj: |
Revista médica de Chile, Volume: 133, Issue: 8, Pages: 929-934, Published: AUG 2005 |
| Popis: |
Background: The occurrence and timing of menstrual and reproductive events such as menarche, regularity of menses, births, maternal breastfeeding and menopause play an important role in a woman's life. Aim: To study the variability of reproductive live from menarche to menopause in different age groups in Chilean Caucasian and Mapuche aborigine females in a southern location of Chile. Subjects and Methods: A questionnaire about reproductive history was answered by 502 women consulting in six general emergency rooms of different public hospitals of the 8th region of Chile, between May and September 2002. Results: The median age at menarche was 12.8 years among adolescents and 13.7 years among older women (p |
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OpenAIRE |
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