Abuse in all its forms is associated with adverse health outcomes — but can more recent abuse worsen menopause? A new study presented during this year’s annual meeting of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) in Las Vegas may have proved that it could.
“While a history of adverse childhood experiences has been associated with increased reporting of vasomotor symptoms, the relationships between recent abuse and menopausal symptoms has not been fully explore,” researchers wrote in the abstract of their study. “Our objective was to determine whether there is an association between menopausal symptom both (MSB) and a history of abuse (physical, sexual or emotional/verbal in the last year.” Vasomotor symptoms typically refers to night sweats and hot flashes.
[For more of this story, written by Stephanie Castillo, go to http://www.medicaldaily.com/sy...otional-abuse-355558]
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