Carson MY, et al. - Researchers examined the correlations of childhood abuse and neglect with menopausal vasomotor symptoms, employing both physiologic and prospective self-report measures of vasomotor symptoms. Psychosocial measures, including the Child Trauma Questionnaire, ambulatory physiologic (sternal skin conductance) and self-report measurement of vasomotor symptoms during wake and sleep, and actigraphy measurement of sleep, were assessed from 295 nonsmoking perimenopausal and postmenopausal women aged 40 to 60 years with and without vasomotor symptoms. In this sample, 44% reported abuse or neglect during childhood. Among women reporting vasomotor symptoms, they observed an association of childhood sexual or physical abuse with more frequent physiologically-recorded vasomotor symptoms during sleep in multivariable models. Women with a physical or sexual abuse history vs those without this history reported nearly 1.5 to 2-fold number of sleep vasomotor symptoms. Findings thereby support the association of childhood abuse with more frequent physiologically-detected vasomotor symptoms during sleep.