Daily physical activity and menopausal hot flashes: applying a novel within-person approach to demonstrate individual differences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physical activity (PA) may be a useful tool in the management of menopausal hot flashes (HFs) but findings are generally inconsistent. There are few well-designed and sufficiently powered RCTs. Applying a longitudinal within-person approach offers an alternative way to examine the PA-HFs relationship which enables complete accommodation of inter-individual differences.

Objectives

Aprospective daily diary study which applied experience sampling methods and time series modeling techniques investigated, at the within-person level, the relationship between objectively measured daily PA of varying intensities and self-reported menopausal HFs.

Methods

Twenty-four symptomatic middle-aged women (M age=50.4; SD=4.9) completed fitness, body composition and hormonal s

SUBMITTER: Elavsky S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3709453 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature