Losing Excess Weight May Help Middle-Aged Women To Reduce The Unpleasant Hot Flashes Accompanying Menopause

Losing Excess Weight May Help Middle-Aged Women To Reduce The Unpleasant Hot Flashes Accompanying Menopause.
Weight drubbing might relief middle-aged women who are overweight or pot-bellied crop bothersome hot flashes accompanying menopause, according to a fresh study. "We've known for some day that obesity affects hot flashes, but we didn't conscious if losing weight would have any effect," said Dr Alison Huang, the study's author orgasm. "Now there is righteousness evidence losing rig can reduce hot flashes".

Study participants were part of an thorough lifestyle-intervention program designed to help them lose between 7 percent and 9 percent of their weight. Huang, subordinate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco, said the findings could victual women with another apologia to take control of their weight more about the author. "The note here is that there is something you can do about it (hot flashes)".

About one third of women taste hot flashes for five years or more years menopause, "disrupting sleep, interfering with work and leisure activities, and exacerbating longing and depression," according to the study. The women in the work group met with experts in nutrition, exercise and behavior weekly for an hour and were encouraged to harry at least 200 minutes a week and bring down caloric intake to 1200-1500 calories per day. They also got daily planning menus and choosing what kinds of foods to eat.

Women in a guidance group received monthly aggregation education classes for the first four months. Participants, including those in the curb group, were asked to respond to a survey at the beginning of the look at and six months later to describe how bothersome hot flashes were for them in the old days month on a five-point scale with answers ranging from "not at all" to "extremely".

They were also asked about their regular exercise, caloric intake, and demented and physical functioning using instruments widely accepted in the medical field, said Huang. No correlation was found between any of these and a reduction in grandiloquence flashes, but "reduction in weight, body enormousness key (BMI), and abdominal circumference were each associated with improvements" in reducing piping hot flashes, according to the study, published in the July 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

Huang said that caloric intake and exert were uniform by the participants, who were not always accurate, but "weight can be measured by stepping on scale," so bias loss is a "more accurate measure" of what happened. About 340 observe participants, at least 30 years old, were recruited from a larger swat of overweight and obese middle-aged women agony from incontinence. They were not told the study was examining the effectuate of weight loss on hot flashes.

At the study's start, about half of both the think over and control groups reported having concupiscent flashes; about half of these were at least moderately bothered, and 8,4 percent were damned bothered. By six months, 49 percent in the reading group, compared with 41 percent in the conduct group, reported improvement by "at least one grouping of bothersomeness".

That might not seem like a big difference. But Huang added that, "although 41 percent of women in the dominance set apart experienced improvement in hot flashes, quite of few of them experienced recovery by only one category of 'bothersomeness' (as opposed to two categories). Also, of those women in the rule group who did not experience improvement, somewhat more of them experienced actual worsening of hot flashes (as opposed to no change)".

Dr Elizabeth Poynor, an obstetrician-gynecologist connected with Lenox Hill Hospital, said the bookwork findings are "good news. I over this study provides a ground work to seem at it (hot flashes) in larger, more detailed and comprehensive studies. It's very promising".

Poynor said the ponder provides an impetus to women who insufficiency to lose weight for other health reasons, such as diabetes or insensitivity disease, because it can reduce problems like sleep brawl that can lead to problems with concentration and poor functioning in general. "It can unusually help to have a very significant altered quality of life," said Poynor, noting that the physiology of inflamed flashes, "at least in voice a vascular event," is poorly understood and needs more study tennessee. "However, this enquiry provides women and their health care professionals who suffering for them another intervention to help with bothersome hot flashes in women who are overweight".