Menopause Night Sweats & Hot Flashes

hot flashes and night sweats Doctors Divided

Millions of women did, including those whose primary motivation was to relieve the distressing symptoms — from hot flashes and night sweats to reduced libido — that afflict 80 percent of women entering menopause. Within a year, U.S. prescriptions for Prempro, the combination drug tested in the WHI trial, had plummeted and researchers in Australia, Britain and New Zealand had canceled a major hormone therapy trial that was about to begin.

On July 9, 2002, investigators in charge of the Women’s Health
Initiative, the largest, most ambitious examination of menopausal
women, abruptly stopped one part of the study three years ahead of
schedule. They took this unusual step after finding that a routinely
prescribed combination of two hormones, estrogen and progestin, was
making many women more susceptible to heart attack, stroke, breast
cancer and blood clots.

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