Vasomotor Symptoms (VMS): Pharmacological Management and Updates

Abstract

Hot flushes and night sweats are the most common symptoms seen in peri and postmenopausal women and known as vasomotor symptoms (VMS). Hot flushes originate as a sudden onset sensation of heat, arising from the neck and the central chest, and then rapidly generalized into the other parts of the body1. Hot flushes are usually last for 1-5 minutes, but it can be last up to 15-60 minutes2. The occurrence of hot flushes during sleep is termed night sweats1. Other symptoms associatLeading Article