Treatment, perceptions and burden of vasomotor symptoms among midlife women in Japan
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the association between the severity of vasomotor symptoms (VMS) and the burden of the condition in the real-world setting within Japan. METHODS: The cross-sectional survey study was administered as a web-based questionnaire involving perimenopausal and postmenopausal women. Respondents were female at birth, 40-64 years old and had ≥1 episode of VMS in the prior 12 months. The primary objective was to understand the treatment landscape related to mild to severe VMS. Secondary objectives were to understand attitudes to VMS, opinions on available treatments and impact of VMS on quality of life (QoL). RESULTS: The target population included 2188 respondents. Only 219 (10.0%) respondents visited a medical facility for VMS, and 123 (5.6%) women consulted a doctor when visiting for other treatment. Being able to cope with symptoms was the most common reason for not attending a medical institution. More than half who received treatment were prescribed traditional Chinese medicine (181/325 [55.7%] respondents) and one-third received hormone therapy (108 [33.2%] respondents). Severe VMS were associated with lower QoL, worse sleep quality and reduced work productivity. CONCLUSIONS: Women in Japan with VMS do not typically visit medical institutions or receive appropriate medical intervention even when they are aware of VMS and feel some burden.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it