Obesity increases the risk of hot flashes and night sweats, which are typical menopausal symptoms.
Kangbuk Samsung Hospital Data Management Center Professor Ryu Seung-ho and Jang Yu-soo’s team announced on the 17th that this was the result of analyzing 4,600 premenopausal women between the ages of 42 and 52 who visited the in-hospital health center between 2014 and 2018.
The results of this study were published in an international scientific journal. It was published as a thesis in the latest issue.
According to him, the team classified groups according to body fat percentage, one of the indicators of obesity. As a result, compared to the normal body fat percentage (<25%), menopausal symptoms increased by 1.42 times in the case of mild obesity (30~34.9%) and by 1.6 times in the case of moderate obesity (≥35%).
Next, the research team divided and compared the effect of obesity according to body fat percentage according to the presence or absence of metabolic disease indicators such as blood pressure and blood sugar.
In metabolically healthy individuals, there was a 1.34-fold increased risk of menopausal symptoms in patients with moderate body fat relative to normal body fat percentage (≥35%), and those with metabolically healthy patients with moderate body fat relative to normal body fat percentage (≥35%) The risk of developing menopausal symptoms increased by 3.61 times.
According to these results, there is an interaction between body fat percentage and metabolic health level, and when body fat obesity and metabolic unhealthy conditions are accompanied, the occurrence of vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes and night sweats), which are typical menopausal symptoms, is much higher. could confirm that
Professor Ryu Seung-ho emphasized the significance of the study, saying, “There have been studies that looked at the relationship between obesity and menopausal symptoms in menopausal women, but this is the first study to determine the effect of obesity with metabolic disease on menopausal symptoms.”
Professor Jang Yoo-soo said, “It is important for pre-menopausal women to maintain a normal body fat percentage and maintain a metabolically healthy state in order to prevent the deterioration of the quality of life caused by menopausal symptoms and the development of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease. It is important,” he advised.
This study was supported by the National Institute of Health and Training of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as part of a prospective research project to identify risk factors for chronic diseases in menopausal women.