Women and Menopause - Introduction

One of the characteristic symptoms of menopause is the hot flush, yet the incidence of this symptom varies widely around the globe. As in the case for heart disease, many Asian women do not experience this symptom with the same frequency as Western women during the menopausal years.

Chinese women for example experience hot flushes at an incidence level of 18% ¹ while their Singaporean counterparts have an incidence of 14% ² . On the other hand 70-80% of Western women experience hot flushes during menopause ¹ .