Hot flashes can last more than 10 years
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May 10, 2011, Tuesday
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THE hot flashes that are common during and after menopause may last an average of more than 10 years, more than twice as long as previously assumed, according to a US Study.
The research, published in "Obstetrics and Gynecology," also found that women who start getting hot flashes before menopause or in the early stages will have them for longer, on average, than women who don't have their first hot flashes until later.
"Hot flashes are pretty common, they're distressing and bothersome to a fair number of women, and they're starting earlier" than previously thought, said Ellen Freeman, the study's lead author who works at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Freeman and her colleagues followed a group of about 400 women in their 30s and 40s, starting in 1995.
In the next 13 years, researchers spoke to the women every year or so, asking them about their health, including menopause symptoms.
Only 55 of the women were entirely free of hot flashes during the study. Another 90 said they had only mild flashes, while the rest - 259 women - reported moderate to severe hot flashes in at least one interview.
For women who reported hot flashes, those symptoms lasted an average of 11.5 years. Moderate to severe hot flashes specifically went on for about 10 years on average.
The research, published in "Obstetrics and Gynecology," also found that women who start getting hot flashes before menopause or in the early stages will have them for longer, on average, than women who don't have their first hot flashes until later.
"Hot flashes are pretty common, they're distressing and bothersome to a fair number of women, and they're starting earlier" than previously thought, said Ellen Freeman, the study's lead author who works at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Freeman and her colleagues followed a group of about 400 women in their 30s and 40s, starting in 1995.
In the next 13 years, researchers spoke to the women every year or so, asking them about their health, including menopause symptoms.
Only 55 of the women were entirely free of hot flashes during the study. Another 90 said they had only mild flashes, while the rest - 259 women - reported moderate to severe hot flashes in at least one interview.
For women who reported hot flashes, those symptoms lasted an average of 11.5 years. Moderate to severe hot flashes specifically went on for about 10 years on average.
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