Active clinical trials for "Hot Flashes"

To determine the efficacy of soy/isoflavone supplementation on hot flashes in men who are being treated with luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist therapy for control of advanced prostate cancer

This study is a randomized, placebo-controlled study of desvenlafaxine versus placebo. The purpose of this study is to determine if desvenlafaxine was effective in decreasing the frequency and severity of hot flashes in breast cancer patients taking tamoxifen.

The objectives of this study are to compare frequency and severity of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms in postmenopausal women treated with applied relaxation (AR) with an untreated control-group (CG) and to investigate if Health Related Quality of Life improve in the AR-group compared to an untreated CG.To study if salivary cortisol excretion would change within the AR treated group compared with the control group.

The purpose of this study is to determine if acupuncture is effective in relieving hot flashes in women treated with hormonal therapy for breast cancer.

Vasomotor symptoms are the most common symptoms seen during climacterium. The hypoestrogenic state causes dysfunction of hypothalamic preoptic area, a thermoregulatory center. The sympathetic overactivation during the hot flashes is associated with awakening during sleep and have a negative impact on cardiac indexes and vascular reactivity. Therefore, hot flashes are accepted as subclinical cardiovascular risk factor. The association between the severity of the hot flashes and cardiovascular risk may have an epigenetic background. Recently, methylation changes of DNA was found to be associated with clinical and subclinical cardiovascular disease risk (atherosclerosis and hypertension etc.). A transposable element in the DNA, Long interspersed nuclear elements (LINE-1), was found to be hypomethylated in cases with ischemic heart disease and stroke. Therefore, the expression of repeating elements in the DNA (LINE-1 and ALU) may be considered as a mediator in the ischemic heart disease. Until now, menopausal age, vasomotor symptoms and epigenetic and biological aging have been evaluated. However, the epigenetic impact of severe vasomotor symptoms in postmenopausal women with low cardiovascular disease risk profile has not been evaluated. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the epigenetic basis of cardiovascular disease risk for women with vasomotor symptoms which disturb sleep by assessing the methylation levels of ALU and LINE-1.

The primary objective of this study was to determine the clinical safety of RAD1901 and to evaluate whether RAD1901 reduced the frequency and severity of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms (VMS; "hot flashes") in postmenopausal women.

The purpose of this study is to determine in a preliminary manner whether successful therapy of hot flashes can be associated with changes in the serotonin transporter in the brain. The serotonin transporter is important in delivering serotonin into certain portions of the brains (serotonin is a chemical that is important in the control of body temperature, mood, sleep, and other functions).

Black cohosh is a natural supplement that has been used to treat and prevent menopausal symptoms. Remifemin is a standardized form of black cohosh. The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of components of black cohosh obtained in the blood of healthy women taking Remifemin.

Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) is a critical component of advanced prostate cancer treatment but causes numerous adverse effects including decreased bone mass, decreased muscle mass, gynecomastia, erectile dysfunction, loss of sexual desire, depression, disordered sleep, urinary symptoms, and hot flashes (HF). HF are unpleasant paroxysmal episodes of flushing, sweating with vasodilation of the face, neck, and chest. These episodes can last for seconds to minutes and are often associated with night sweats, anxiety, and insomnia and have negative effects on quality of life. Stellate ganglion blockade (SGB) with local anesthetic may be an effective treatment of HF in men on ADT, but has not been studied in any published clinical trials. The stellate ganglion is a neural structure in the anterior cervical spine region and is part of the sympathetic nervous system. It has been injected safely in the practice of pain management for more than 50 years in cases of post herpetic neuralgia (shingles), complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and other painful neuropathies as well as some types of cardiac dysrhythmias. Given the frequency and severity and interference of HF in men on ADT for prostate cancer, in addition to the negative effects HF impose on this patient population and a paucity of effective treatments, finding alternative treatments for HF in this population is needed.

This study evaluates the efficacy, safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of once daily SJX-653 in postmenopausal women with moderate to severe VMS.