Among the findings: up to 80 percent of women experience hot
flashes. Some women--the lucky few--just had a few
flashes or none at all.
Thurston and colleagues examined hot
flashes as they related to lipid profiles in women enrolled in SWAN.
Hot
flashes were analyzed in relation to six lipid profiles, after controlling for age, race, menopausal status/cycle day, alcohol use, physical activity, smoking, anxiety, body mass index, cardiovascular disease status and medications, lipid-lowering medications, and estradiol.
Hundreds of researches conducted on perimenopausal women in the last decade have shown that heavier women tend to have more hot
flashes, as a result of which researchers began to clinically observe obesity as a risk factor for hot
flashes.
Because female fish didn't noticeably react, eye
flashes probably warn off intruding males, Flamarique, Mueller, and their colleagues say in an article now online for the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Different types of fireflies vary in how quickly they flash, how long the
flashes last, and what color the
flashes are.
In the Scientific Tradition, hot
flashes are a broken machine that needs to be fixed.
"I started studying hot
flashes more than 20 years ago, and when I told people what I was working on, they would giggle," remembers Robert Freedman of Wayne State University, the dean of hot flash research in the U.S.
Manson says, "there are very few women in that age group who experience the primary symptom that drives most women to hormone therapy in the first place: hot
flashes. As far as its use for moderate to severe hot
flashes, I think it still has a role in clinical practice for short-term treatment and is the most effective treatment out there."
(25) A local doctor later concurred, noting that any sport, when indulged in to excess, tended to "turn young men's minds from any mental culture." Passing remarks in
Flashes also highlighted what might be seen as another aspect of the dangers of over-indulgence in sport.
Washington, Jan 19 (ANI): A new study has suggested that the use of antidepressant medication reduces the frequency and severity of hot
flashes in menopausal women.
A variety of drugs can slightly reduce the number of hot
flashes that a woman experiences during menopause, an overview of studies finds.
