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Exercise for vasomotor menopausal symptoms.

A Daley1, C MacArthur, N Mutrie

  • 1Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK. a.daley@bham.ac.uk

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
|October 19, 2007
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Exercise may help with menopause symptoms, but one small study found hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was more effective for hot flushes. More research is needed to confirm exercise benefits for menopausal symptom management.

Area of Science:

  • Menopause Research
  • Exercise Physiology
  • Women's Health

Background:

  • Many perimenopausal and postmenopausal women experience menopause symptoms, particularly hot flushes.
  • Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can alleviate symptoms but its use has declined due to safety concerns.
  • There is a growing need for evidence-based lifestyle modifications to manage menopausal symptoms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of exercise interventions for managing vasomotor symptoms in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women.
  • To assess exercise as an alternative or complementary treatment to HRT for menopause symptom relief.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic search of multiple electronic databases for randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
  • Inclusion criteria focused on RCTs comparing exercise interventions to other treatments or no treatment for vasomotor symptoms.

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  • Data extraction was performed by three independent reviewers from eligible trials.

    • Main Results:

    • Only one small RCT met the inclusion criteria, comparing exercise to HRT.
    • Within-group analysis suggested both exercise and HRT reduced vasomotor symptoms.
    • Between-group analysis indicated HRT was significantly more effective than exercise in reducing hot flushes.

    Conclusions:

    • The current evidence base from RCTs on exercise for vasomotor menopausal symptoms is very limited.
    • Exercise was found to be less effective than HRT in the single trial reviewed.
    • Further high-quality RCTs are required to determine the efficacy of exercise for managing hot flushes and night sweats in symptomatic women.