Menopause, Post-Menopause and Ageing

Zusatztext This concise text will! indeed! be helpful to gynaecologists! general practitioners! physicians and health professionals involved with the care of aging women.The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Informationen zum Autor Margaret Rees is a Medical Gynaecologist and Reader in Reproductive Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford. Tony Mander is a practising Consultant Gynaecologist, is deputy editor of the Journal of the British Menopause Society and honorary clinical teacher in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Manchester University. Guest Editor Louis Keith is Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago. Zusammenfassung Published on behalf of the British Menopause Society, a team of experienced experts present a collection of articles on women's health during and after the menopause. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section 1: Determinants of disease Covers osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, dementia, breast, gynaecological and bowel cancers. Section 2: Common condition Covers the pathology, effects of ageing and oestrogen levels, symptoms, impact on women's lives, who and how to investigate, drug and non-drug therapies in the following conditions: dementia, myocardial infarction, stroke, osteoporosis, arthritis, incontinence. Section 3: Care of an ageing population, Caring at home, providing residential care.

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• Authors: L. G. Keith, Tony Mander, David W. Purdie, David W. Rees Purdie, Margaret Rees, Margaret Mander Rees
• Assisted by: Louis Keith (Editor), Keith Louis (Editor), Tony Mander (Editor), Mander Tony (Editor), Margaret Rees (Editor), Rees Margaret (Editor)
• Publisher: Royal Society of medicine press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.2005
• EAN: 9781853156601
• ISBN: 978-1-85315-660-1
• No. of pages: 109
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics, Gynaecology and obstetrics, Gynaecology & obstetrics, womens health;therapies;oestrogen deficency