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Menopausal women struggling with night sweats have been handed some tough-love advice: stop sitting around.
Sedentary lifestyles may be putting them at greater risk of hot flushes during the night, researchers say.
Many women going through the menopause wake up to find their sheets soaking from night sweats – a distressing symptom that can disrupt sleep and cause brain fog during the day.
The US researchers measured night sweats in 77 women while looking at their daytime physical activity using wrist-worn exercise trackers.
Menopausal women struggling with night sweats have been handed some tough-love advice: stop sitting around. Sedentary lifestyles may be putting them at greater risk of hot flushes during the night, researchers say
For every three hours and 20 minutes spent being sedentary, such as sitting or lying down, they had one extra episode of night sweats on average.
Dr Sarah Witkowski, who led the study from Smith College in Massachusetts, said: 'As researchers, we want to reduce the difficulties many women have through mid-life, and try to make it a little better.
'It is very easy to sit for three hours at a time, particularly when working or watching television, but these results suggest women
