ArticleMaturitas2017
Hot flashes and midlife symptoms in relation to levels of salivary cortisol.
Article in Maturitas, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Are psychosocial factors and menopause symptoms related to hair cortisol concentrations among midlife Latinas? Results from theComprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2026Article
- Does everyday discrimination account for the increased risk of vasomotor symptoms in Black women?: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN).Menopause (New York, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Review
- Effects of Sleep Fragmentation and Estradiol Decline on Cortisol in a Human Experimental Model of Menopause.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2023Article
- The Cortisol and ACTH Response to Dex/CRH Testing in Women With and Without Perimenopausal Depression.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2021Article
- Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, subjective, and thermal stress responses in midlife women with vasomotor symptoms.Menopause (New York, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- 'When my autism broke': A qualitative study spotlighting autistic voices on menopause.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2020Article
- Neighborhood disorder, exposure to violence, and perceived discrimination in relation to symptoms in midlife women.Women's midlife health · 2018Article
- Stress and the menopausal transition in Campeche, Mexico.Women's midlife health · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectivesThis study examined the relationship between salivary cortisol levels and hot flashes during midlife. Previous studies have shown that cortisol levels increase with hot flashes in the laboratory, and higher cortisol levels have been associated with more severe hot flashes. Salivary cortisol levels were also examined in relation to total number of midlife symptoms.
methodsWomen aged 40-60 years (n=109) reported the presence or absence of 23 symptoms, including hot flashes, during the previous 2 weeks. Salivary samples were collected at waking, 30min after waking, 1h before bedtime, and at bedtime. The cortisol awakening response (CAR), cortisol daily decline (CDD), log transformed salivary cortisol levels at each time point, and mean cortisol levels were compared by hot flash report using t-tests. Logistic regression analyses were performed to assess the association between each cortisol measure and the presence or absence of hot flashes, after controlling for potential covariates.
resultsSalivary cortisol levels were not significantly associated with hot flashes or sum of symptoms. Hot flash report did not differentiate women who had a positive CAR from those who did not, or women who showed strong CDD from those who did not.
conclusionSymptomatic women - defined by hot flash report or symptom total - were not found to have higher salivary cortisol levels.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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 OpenQuestion graph.