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Women who add more fat to their frames as they approach menopause will have a harder time with hot flashes, a new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology shows.

People used to think that fat helped protect against hot flashes because it contains hormones that can be converted into estrogen, Dr. Rebecca C. Thurston of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and her colleagues note in their report. But recent research has shown that women with higher body mass indexes and more body fat may actually suffer more hot flashes, they add.

"Gains in body fat are common over the course of midlife and the menopausal transition, which is probably no news to anybody," Thurston noted in an interview.

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