Open AccessDoes Physical Exercise Influence the Frequency of Postmenopausal Hot Flushes?
Author(s) -
Hammar Mats,
And Goran Berg,
Lindgren Richard
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
acta obstetricia et gynecologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1600-0412
pISSN - 0001-6349
DOI - 10.3109/00016349009013303
Subject(s) - medicine , menopause , postmenopausal women , hormone replacement therapy (female to male) , physical exercise , natural history , affect (linguistics) , physical therapy , gynecology , hormonal replacement therapy , linguistics , philosophy , testosterone (patch)
The frequency of moderate and severe hot flushes was investigated in a group of women (n=142) who took part in organized physical exercise on a regular basis, and a control group of all women 52 and 54 years old in the city of Linkoping, Sweden (n = 1,246). Only women with natural menopause and without a history of hormonal replacement treatment were statistically compared in the study. It appeared that moderate and severe vegetative symptoms with hot flushes and sweatings were only half as common among the physically active postmenopausal women (21.5%) as in the control group (43.8%). Although this could be due to a positive selection of these physically active women, it might also be due to the fact that exercise may affect the mechanisms that elicit hot flushes in peri‐ and postmenopausal women.