id: palpitations
title: "Heart palpitations in menopause"
kind: symptom
summary: "A scoping review reports palpitations affecting up to about 42% of perimenopausal and 54% of postmenopausal women. Hormonal changes are implicated, but menopause-specific causal evidence is limited and more research is needed."
evidence_strength: limited
status: published
sources:
  - url: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9289918/
    title: "Correlates of palpitations during menopause: a scoping review"
    publisher: "Correlates of palpitations during menopause: a scoping review"
    study_type: "systematic-review"
signals:
  - sig-20260710-palpitations-certainty
  - sig-20260710-palpitations-prevalence
confidence: medium
first_seen: "2026-07-10"
last_updated: "2026-07-10"
notes: "'Heart palpitations' needs an entities entry (kind: symptom); id not invented. Single scoping-review source; causal evidence limited."