IMR Press / CEOG / Volume 41 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.12891/ceog17132014

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Original Research
Is there any association between mild hypertension and hot flash experience among women?
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1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr Zekai Tahir Burak Women Health Research and Education Hospital, Ankara
2 Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara
3 Department of Cardiology, Turkey Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital, Ankara (Turkey)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2014, 41(4), 409–414; https://doi.org/10.12891/ceog17132014
Published: 10 August 2014
Abstract

Objective: To determine the association between ambulatory blood pressure (ABP), heart rate, and hot flash (HF) experience among women. Materials and Methods: The authors recruited 110 women aged 22 to 65 years with mild essential hypertension or normotension confirmed by 24-hour ABP monitoring. None of the women had organ damage, inflammatory diseases, on estrogen replacement therapy or any other risk factors. Participants wore an ABP monitor that both records heart rate during 24 hours and noted their awake and sleep times. HF were assessed using an everyday complaint questionnaire that included symptoms associated with menopause. Each participant was asked whether or not she had experienced each symptom during the two weeks before the interview. Results: Fifty-five of the participants (45%) reported having had HF during the two weeks before they completed the questionnaire. The results show that the prevalence of essential hypertension (EH) in the group of women who had HF was significantly higher than the group of women that did not have HF (p = 0.035). The authors also found that hypertensive women had HF more often than normotensive women (p = 0.035), but other parameters including mean awake and sleep systolic BP values, mean awake and sleep diastolic BP values, heart rates, and nocturnal dipping of BP did not differ statistically among the group of women who had HF and the group of women who did not have HF (p > 0.05). Conclusions: These data suggest that the prevalence of EH in the group of women who have HF is significantly higher than the group of women that does not have HF.
Keywords
Hot flashes
Hypertension
Ambulatory blood pressure
Heart rate variability
Menopause
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