Understanding night sweating during the menopause

Our goal

Our goal is to get insight into nocturnal perspiration (night sweating) of women during the menopause.

Nightly sweat behaviour as a digital biomarker

Q-Strip measures nightly sweat behaviour. We've done scientific research which shows that to this day no specific evidence-based approach for diagnosing nocturnal perspiration exists. By introducing the Q-strip, an IoT device that quantitatively measures nocturnal perspiration, this could be acquired. The Q-strip could serve a purpose in diagnosing nocturnal perspiration more efficient without being intrusive.

Nocturnal Sweating during menopause

Night Sweats are a familiar and common symptom of women during the menopause. How much do women sweat? What is causing this deviated sweating? What are the relations between sweating and other symptoms? Q-Strip has the potential to give valuable insight to scientists and pharmaceutical companies to improve their treatments and drug development in order to relieve the impact of menopause on the life of women.

Technical introduction Q-Strip

A short introduction movie of using a Q-Strip to monitor body sweat behaviour.

Below you see a chart of the maximum perspiration of each day during three weeks of a woman (Age 40, BMI: 34). What do you think the red line can tell us? And what will we see when we analyse a group of woman in the menopause? We are inventors. It's up to medical scientists to draw conclusions. We only want to mention that we can't imagine that these patterns are random. So let's cooperate to understand them.