Fertility and Sterility
Volume 82, Issue 1 , Pages 138-144 , July 2004

Lack of sleep disturbance from menopausal hot flashes

  • Robert R Freedman, Ph.D.,

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Robert R. Freedman, Ph.D., Wayne State University SOM, C. S. Mott Center, 275 E. Hancock Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA (FAX: 313-577-8382).
    • Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Wayne, USA
    • ,
  • Timothy A Roehrs, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Wayne, USA

Received 15 September 2003 ,Revised 9 December 2003 ,Accepted 9 December 2003.

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☆ Supported by R01-MH68683 and NIH MERIT Award R37-AG05233 (both R.R.F.).

PII: S0015-0282(04)00614-4

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.12.029

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