Menopausal vasomotor symptoms: social aspects, dynamics, cardiometabolic risks, hormone therapy options


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Vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes and night sweats) are the most characteristic symptoms of menopause. However, mounting evidence points to hot flashes as a manifestation of underlying autonomic neurovascular dysregulation that put an individual woman at risk for chronic conditions of aging. The review addresses the following issues: women’s attitudes towards menopause and hot flashes, the dynamics and duration of vasomotor symptoms across the different stages of reproductive aging, vasomotor symptoms as markers of cardiometabolic risk and their relationship with sleep disturbance, advantages of menopausal hormonal therapy with antimineralocorticoid progestin.

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Svetlana V. Yureneva

Academician V.I. Kulakov Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: syureneva@gmail.com
MD, senior researcher of the Department of Gynecological Endocrinology, professor of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Lilia M. Ilyina

Association of gynecologists and endocrinologists

Email: bseiljina@mail.ru
MD, medical advisor on menopause

Zukhra K. Ebzieva

Academician V.I. Kulakov Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: zu87@list.ru
graduate student of the Department of Gynecological Endocrinology

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