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Article: Measuring Hot Flashes: Summary of a National Institutes of Health Workshop
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- Mayo Clinic Proceedings
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Vasomotor symptoms, including hot flashes and night sweats, are the most frequently reported symptoms of the menopausal transition. Although prevalence rates vary substantially across populations of menopausal women, the vast majority of women in the United States will experience hot flashes at some point during menopause. Other groups of people also experience hot flashes, including breast cancer survivors and men undergoing androgen deprivation therapy.
Although estrogen and other forms of hormone therapy are effective in treating hot flashes, recent findings from the Women's Health Initiative indicate that the benefits of hormone-based therapies for hot flashes are attenuated by risks, ...