Using data on 50-year-old women from four different population studies within the Prospective Population Study of Women in Gothenburg, Sweden, the prospective longitudinal study compared the prevalence of daily hot flashes for women in the early-born cohorts (1918 and 1930) with those born in the later cohorts. (1954 and 1966).
The researchers found that women who gave birth later were twice as likely to experience daily hot flashes than women who were born early, even after adjusting to predictors of potential hot flashes (for example, smoking, body composition, and perceived high level of stress).
The exact reason for this alarming increase is less clear, but researchers speculate that business conditions; changes in lifestyle, diet and environment; And the Endocrine disrupting chemicals EDCs may play a role.
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