Assessing and Improving Measures of Hot Flashes—Meeting Summary

On January 20, 2004, NCCAM convened a trans-NIH workshop on assessing measurements of hot flashes with a group of scientists, broadly ranging in disciplines. The objectives of this workshop were to assess:

• our understanding of the physiological and endocrine parameters associated with hot flashes
• the self-reported experience of hot flashes
• the quality of existing subjective and objective measures of hot flashes
• and the barriers and opportunities to improve these measures.

Meeting Summary

View or print the Meeting Summary (54 pages, PDF format).

The topics covered in the meeting include:

• Introduction
• Significance and Magnitude of the Problem
• Objective Measures of Hot Flashes
• Promising Sensor Technologies
• Self-Reported Data on Hot Flashes
• The Placebo Effect and Natural Decrease in Hot Flashes Over Time
• Animal Models of Hot Flashes
• Building Effective Multidisciplinary Teams
• Future Directions
• References
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3

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Conference Report

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This conference report was published in the June 2004 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Miller HG, Li RM. Measuring hot flashes: Summary of a National Institutes of Health Workshop. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2004;79:668-670.