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(Best Syndication News) – A study published in the July 12th issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine found that obese and overweight women had lessened hot flashes when they lost weight and exercise. Another name for hot flashes are hot flushes.
Hot flashes happen to women for five or more years during menopause. It is a common problem that as many as a third of all menopausal women have complained about. The researchers noticed that the higher the women’s body mass index (BMI) the more frequent and severe the hot flashes were compared to those women that had the lower BMI numbers.
The researchers from the University of California, San Francisco conducted a six-month randomized controlled trial. They had 338 women with an average age of 53 that were overweight or obese and had urinary incontinence. They assigned 226 of these women to an intensive weight loss program and the other 112 women were assigned to a control group. Around half of the women had said they had experienced hot flashes at some point before the study began.
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