background: osteoporosis is a common disease characterized by reduction in bone mass, due to depletion of calcium and bone protein. a pivotal role of the sympathetic nervous system in bone remodeling has been considered. on the other hand, elevated central sympathetic activation in postmenopausal women is involved in the creation of vasomotor symptoms. also, sympathetic skin response (ssr) has ...

218 words) Objective: To investigate to what extent vasomotor symptoms reappeared after cessation of postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT) in women who started HT due to hot flashes. Design: A cross-sectional postal survey. A validated questionnaire was sent to all women, 53-54 years old, living in Linköping, Sweden (n=1,733) including questions about menopause, HT and vasomotor symptoms. Pearson...

Objectives: To critically evaluate the effect of red clover on hot flash, endometrial thickness, and hormones status in postmenopausal and peri- and post-menopausal women. Materials and Methods: MEDLINE (1966 to July 2014), Scopus (1990 to July 2014), and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (The Cochrane Library issue 1, 2014) were searched for published randomized controlled Tri...

OBJECTIVES To compare the efficacy of hypnotherapy versus gabapentin for the treatment of hot flashes in breast cancer survivors, and to evaluate the feasibility of conducting a clinical trial comparing a drug with a complementary or alternative method (CAM). DESIGN Prospective randomised trial. SETTING Breast health centre of a tertiary care centre. PARTICIPANTS 15 women with a personal ...

BACKGROUND Many breast cancer survivors suffer debilitating hot flashes. Estrogen, the drug of choice in perimenopausal women, is generally not recommenced to breast cancer survivors. Nonhormonal treatments are mostly disappointing. Anecdotal reports in our institution suggested that the selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitor, paroxetine hydrochloride, might be efficacious in alleviating hot fl...

The gold standard for objectively measuring hot flashes in women is an increased sternal skinconductance level (SCL), but validation studies in prostate cancer patients are lacking. In the laboratory,an SCL increase of ≥1.78 micro-mho in 45 s had a sensitivity of 68% and a positive predictive value of100% in detecting self-reported hot flashes among prostate cancer patients. Out...

Hypogonadal men may experience intense vasomotor symptoms, and vasomotor sweating can occasionally be associated with profound fluid losses. We describe a 37-year-old male, who exhibited persistent hypovolaemic hypernatraemia that was challenging to treat despite a continuous high fluid input (>4-5 L/day). He was noted to have drenching sweats and normochromic anaemia. He had recent traumatic h...

OBJECTIVE to identify and synthesize the evidence from randomized clinical trials that tested the effectiveness of traditional Chinese acupuncture in relation to sham acupuncture for the treatment of hot flashes in menopausal women with breast cancer. METHOD systematic review guided by the recommendations of the Cochrane Collaboration. Citations were searched in the following databases: MEDLI...

Many women treated surgically for early breast cancer, who then undergo treatment with chemotherapy and/or Tamoxifen and/or ovarian ablation, may have vasomotor symptoms that usually continue for years. Hot flushes are brought out from the thermo-regulatory centre, and are possibly attributable to a decrease in hypothalamic opioid activity produced by low oestrogen concentrations. Acupuncture t...

Hot flushes affect approximately 75% of postmenopausal women and are one of the most distressing symptoms that women experience as they enter the menopause.The treatment of hot flushes is a common clinical challenge. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) effectively reduces vasomotor symptoms by 80-90%, however, many patients may be unable or unwilling to undergo hormonal treatment. Publication of ...