Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29390899›Full record

ReviewClimacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society2018

Vasomotor symptoms: natural history, physiology, and links with cardiovascular health.

R C Thurston

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Pooled it
  4. Genetic Variation and Hot Flashes: A Systematic Review.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2020
    Pooled it
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Effects of Integrated Extracts ofAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Article
  10. Position Statement on Cardiometabolic Health Across the Woman's Life Course - 2025.Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia · 2025
    Article
  11. Review
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Hormones and Aging: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2023
    Article
  17. Review
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

R C Thurstona Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Epidemiology , University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , PA , USA.
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Menopausal Vasomotor Symptoms and Brain Aging in WomenRF1AG053504 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI MAKI, PAULINE M, THURSTON, REBECCA C · 2016 to 2019
$4.1M
Mechanisms linking hot flashes to cardiovascular riskR01HL105647 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI THURSTON, REBECCA C · 2011 to 2015
$3.2M
Interdisciplinary Mentoring and Research in Womens Cardiovascular HealthK24HL123565 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI THURSTON, REBECCA C · 2014 to 2023
$1.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS K24 HL123565NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL105647NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG053504
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vasomotor symptoms (VMS), or hot flushes and night sweats, are the classic symptom of menopause. Recent years have brought key advances in the knowledge about VMS. VMS last longer than previously thought, on average 7-10 years for frequent or moderate to severe VMS. Although VMS have long been understood to be important to women's quality of life, research has also linked VMS to indicators of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, such as an adverse CVD risk factor profile, greater subclinical CVD and, in emerging work, CVD events. Relations between VMS and CVD are not typically accounted for by CVD risk factors. In newer work, VMS-CVD risk relations are demonstrated with state-of-the-art subjective and objective measures of VMS. Some research indicates that VMS-CVD risk relations may be sensitive to the timing or duration of VMS. Thus, research collectively supports relations between VMS and CVD risk independent of known CVD risk factors. Next steps include identifying the mechanisms linking VMS and CVD risk indicators, understanding any timing effects, and clarifying the precise nature of relations between VMS and CVD risk. Clinical implications are discussed.

Indexed as

MenopauseWomen's HealthCardiovascular DiseasesFemaleHot FlashesHumansMiddle AgedQuality of LifeRisk FactorsVasomotor Systemcardiovascular diseasehot flasheshot flushesMenopausevasomotor symptoms

Identifiers

PMID29390899
PMCPMC5902802
OpenAlexW2790227401

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.