Climate change and its potential impact on menopausal hot flashes: a commentary

Daalen, Kim Robin van; Venkatraman, Rashmi

doi:10.1097/gme.0000000000001521

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“…However, climate change could create a greater burden of menopause symptoms, such as hot flashes and night sweats. Exposure to prolonged temperature increases and extreme temperatures may have a profound impact on quality of life for menopausal women including sleep disturbances, fatigue, and increasing dependence on health care resources (Smith et al, 2020).…”

Section: Direct and Indirect Mechanisms Affecting Maternal Child Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate and Environmental Change

Chalupka

Latter

Trombley

2023

McN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing

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Climate and environmental changes have been described as the biggest global health threat of the 21st century, with the potential to cause immediate harm in early life with important lifelong effects, and important consequences for future generations. Pregnant women and children are increasingly being recognized as vulnerable populations in the context of climate change. The effects can be direct or indirect through heat stress, extreme weather events, and air pollution, potentially affecting both the immediate and long-term health of pregnant women and newborns through a broad range of mechanisms. Climate and environmental changes have wide-ranging effects on a woman's reproductive life including sexual maturation and fertility, pregnancy outcomes, lactation, breastfeeding, and menopause. A comprehensive overview of these impacts is presented as well as opportunities for interventions for nurses practicing in perinatal, neonatal, midwifery, and pediatric specialties.

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Section: Direct and Indirect Mechanisms Affecting Maternal Child Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate and Environmental Change

Chalupka

Latter

Trombley

2023

McN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing

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“…Finally, climate change is expected to impact the health of women and men differently, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (see [ 134 ]). For example, rising temperatures could substantially worsen the health impacts of menopause, notably hot flashes [ 135 ]. Furthermore, climate change has the potential to impact women’s health through perturbation in the timing of menarche (i.e., the first occurrence of a woman’s menstruation) which, in turn, affects women’s risk of diseases (see [ 136 ] for the pathways including impact through food, stress or exposure to environmental pollutions).…”

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Thinking Health-related Behaviors in a Climate Change Context: A Narrative Review

Chevance

Fresán

Hekler

et al. 2022

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

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Background Human activities have changed the environment so profoundly over the past two centuries that human-induced climate change is now posing serious health-related threats to current and future generations. Rapid action from all scientific fields, including behavioral medicine, is needed to contribute to both mitigation of, and adaption to, climate change. Purpose This article aims to identify potential bi-directional associations between climate change impacts and health-related behaviors, as well as a set of key actions for the behavioral medicine community. Methods We synthesized the existing literature about (i) the impacts of rising temperatures, extreme weather events, air pollution, and rising sea level on individual behaviors (e.g., eating behaviors, physical activity, sleep, substance use, and preventive care) as well as the structural factors related to these behaviors (e.g., the food system); and (ii) the concurrent positive and negative roles that health-related behaviors can play in mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Results Based on this literature review, we propose a first conceptual model of climate change and health-related behavior feedback loops. Key actions are proposed, with particular consideration for health equity implications of future behavioral interventions. Actions to bridge the fields of behavioral medicine and climate sciences are also discussed. Conclusions We contend that climate change is among the most urgent issues facing all scientists and should become a central priority for the behavioral medicine community.

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“…Finally, climate change is expecting to impact the health of women and men differently, especially in low-and middle-income countries (see [163]). Rising average temperatures could substantially worsen the health impacts of menopause, notably hot flashes [164]. Further, climate change has the potential to impact women's health through perturbation in the timing of menarche (i.e., the first occurrence of a woman's menstruation) which, in turn, affect women's risk of diseases (see [165] for the pathways).…”

Section: Climate Change Behavioral Medicine and Health Equitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking health-related behaviors in a climate change context: A narrative review

Chevance¹,

Fresán²,

Hekler³

et al. 2021

Preprint

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Background: Human activities have changed the biosphere so profoundly over the past two centuries that human-induced climate change is now posing serious health-related treats to the current and future generations. Rapid actions from all scientific fields are needed to contribute to both the mitigation and adaption to climate change. Purpose: This article aims to identify bi-directional associations between climate change effects (i.e., rising average temperatures, natural disasters, air pollution, rising sea level) and health-related behaviors, as well as a set of key actions for the behavioral medicine community. Methods: We synthetized the existing literature about (i) the effects of rising average temperature, natural disasters, air pollution, and rising sea level on the food system and eating behaviors, physical activity, sleep, substance use, access to safe water, and preventive behaviors; and (ii) the concurrent positive and negative roles that health-related behaviors can play in mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Results: Based on this literature review, we propose one of the first model of the complex, occasionally bi-directional, associations between climate change and health-related behaviors. Key actions are proposed with particular consideration for health equity (i.e., between and within-countries, at the intergenerational level, as well as between men and women) of future behavioral interventions. Synergies are also proposed between the field of behavioral medicine, the study of complex systems and planetary health science. Conclusions: We contend that climate change is among the most urgent issue facing all scientists, and should become a central priority for the behavioral medicine community.

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Climate change and its potential impact on menopausal hot flashes: a commentary

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Climate and Environmental Change

Climate and Environmental Change

Thinking Health-related Behaviors in a Climate Change Context: A Narrative Review

Thinking health-related behaviors in a climate change context: A narrative review

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