The study showed that childless women face less hot flushes during menopause. And even if these symptoms develop, occur much less frequently.
Child birth and breastfeeding promises many benefits to women’s health, but now researchers have found that childless mothers also has its advantages. In particular, when these women enter into menopause, they are less likely to encounter such unpleasant symptoms as hot flashes. And if these tides still occur, it occurs much less frequently than women who deliver children. Meanwhile, mom, who was diagnosed with high blood pressure, preeclampsia or diabetes during pregnancy have an increased risk to face the heavy tides, compared to those women whose pregnancy was without serious complications.
Your conclusions the American scientists have made based on questioning 2 249 women about how often they collide with the tides. Overall, this is a classic symptom of menopause occurs in approximately 80% of women post-menopausal period. Experts say that hot flashes can persist for several years. The average age of survey participants was 61 year. Polls have shown that childless women are 19% less likely to collide with the tides compared with those who had children and whose pregnancy was uneventful.
But if women during pregnancy marked by gestational diabetes or other disorders leading to high blood pressure, in this case, the probability of developing severe hot flushes during menopause increased by 19%. Perhaps this is due to problems with the sheath of blood vessels, which provoke not only tides, but also complications during pregnancy. (READ MORE)