No Hot Flashes? Hormones Might not Help

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No Hot Flashes? Hormones Might not Help

– Reported Nov 19, 2013

(Ivanhoe Newswire) –Hormones at menopause can help with memory, sleep, and more. However, new research is showing that it only helps when a woman also has hot flashes.

The North American Menopause Society and 14 other leading women’s health organizations agree that hormone therapy is acceptable at menopause for most women who are bothered by moderate to severe menopause symptoms. The study involved 150 women who had recently gone through menopause; 72 had seven or more moderate to severe hot flashes a day and 78 had three of fewer mild hot flashes per day. For six months, half of the women in each group used hormone therapy and the other half received a placebo.

Researchers found that women with moderate to severe hot flashes had more sleep problems, joint pains, palpitations, irritability, exhaustion, depressed mood, nausea, and swelling than the other women.

For more information, go to: http://www.menopause.org/

SOURCE: Menopause, November 2013