Regarding those racial differences

So many factors are contributing to an earlier and more complicated transition

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The longer and more severe menopause experienced by Black women in previous research is often attributed to obesity.

But Evernow, the startup that moved to the forefront of the US menopause telehealth field with this year's initial funding round, and has been studying thousands of women for the last four years with plans to publish, has found that not to be the case.  

According to the first Evernow Menopause Study, when they controlled for obesity in that research, along with other confounding factors, the differences in length and severity “persisted”.

As Evernow founder Alicia Jackson told me on this week’s episode of the Hotflash inc podcast, this “really matters” because we know from the literature that women who have severe motor vasomotor symptoms like hot flashes have an up to 80 percent increase in their risk of a cardiovascular event.

We’ve long known there are racial disparities in menopause, both in terms of how symptoms are experienced and how people a…