ArticleMenopause (New York, N.Y.)2019
Childhood abuse and vasomotor symptoms among midlife women.
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- Risk factors, management and consequences of severe menopausal vasomotor symptoms.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2026Review
- Adverse childhood experiences, age at menopause, and vasomotor symptoms among mid-life Latine adults in California.Evolutionary human sciences · 2026Article
- A systematic review on the bidirectional relationship between trauma-related psychopathology and reproductive aging.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2024Article
- 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
- Risks and benefits of hormone therapy after menopause for cognitive decline and dementia: A conceptual review.Maturitas · 2024Review
- Trauma and its implications for women's cardiovascular health during the menopause transition: Lessons from MsHeart/MsBrain and SWAN studies.Maturitas · 2024Review
- Associations of adverse childhood and lifetime experiences with sleep quality and duration among women in midlife.Sleep health · 2023Article
- Childhood adversity and gynecological conditions.Case reports in women's health · 2022Article
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- Childhood predictors of age at natural menopause.Case reports in women's health · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveChildhood maltreatment is related to adverse health outcomes. However, the relation of childhood maltreatment to the menopause transition-a universal transition for women often accompanied by troubling symptoms such as vasomotor symptoms-is relatively underexplored. This study tested whether childhood abuse and neglect are associated with menopausal vasomotor symptoms, utilizing both physiologic and prospective self-report measures of vasomotor symptoms.
methodsIn all, 295 nonsmoking perimenopausal and postmenopausal women aged 40 to 60 years with and without vasomotor symptoms completed psychosocial measures, including the Child Trauma Questionnaire, ambulatory physiologic (sternal skin conductance) and self-report measurement of vasomotor symptoms during wake and sleep, and actigraphy measurement of sleep. Relationships between childhood abuse/neglect and vasomotor symptoms during wake and sleep were tested in linear regression models controlling for demographics, body mass index, and menopause stage.
results44% of the sample reported abuse or neglect during childhood. Among women reporting vasomotor symptoms, childhood sexual or physical abuse was associated with more frequent physiologically-recorded vasomotor symptoms during sleep (sexual abuse: b [SE] = 1.45 [0.52], P = 0.006; physical abuse: b [SE] = 0.97 [0.47], P = 0.03) in multivariable models. Among these women, women with a physical or sexual abuse history had approximately 1.5 to 2-fold the number of sleep vasomotor symptoms than women without this history.
conclusionsChildhood abuse is associated with more frequent physiologically-detected vasomotor symptoms during sleep.
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