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SUBMITTER: Thurston RC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5524590 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Menopause (New York, N.Y.) 20170801 8
<h4>Objective</h4>Hot flashes are experienced by most midlife women. Emerging data indicate that they may be associated with endothelial dysfunction. No studies have tested whether hot flashes are associated with endothelial function using physiologic measures of hot flashes. We tested whether physiologically assessed hot flashes were associated with poorer endothelial function. We also considered whether age modified associations.<h4>Methods</h4>Two hundred seventy-two nonsmoking women reportin ...[more]