Resistance training reduced luteinising hormone levels in postmenopausal women in a substudy of a randomised controlled clinical trial: A clue to how resistance training reduced vasomotor symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vasomotor symptoms (VMS) are common around menopause. Menopausal hormone therapy is the most effective treatment for VMS. Physical exercise has been proposed as an alternative treatment since physically active women have previously been found to experience fewer VMS than inactive women. In our randomised controlled trial on resistance training to treat VMS, sympoms were reduced by 50% in the intervention group compared with the control group.

Objectives

To propose a mechanism to explain how resistance training reduced VMS and to assess if luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) were affected in accordance with the proposed mechanism.

Trial design and methods

A substudy of a randomized controlled trial on 65 postmenopausal women with

SUBMITTER: Nilsson S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9135255 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature