A new study carried out at University of Baltimore reveled that, women who have been into a hormone replacement therapy within five years of entering menopause, and have been using hormones for ten or more years are 30 per cent less possible to develop Alzheimer’s disease over 11 years, against to women who have never used a hormone replacement therapy or started the treatment later in life.
“This study suggests there may be a critical window of opportunity around menopause during which hormone therapy may protect against Alzheimer's disease”, said study researcher Peter Zandi, associate professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
Doctor Zandi and his team followed 1,768 women, counting 1,105 who had
taken hormone replacement therapy. It was a nested case-control study that
started in 1995 and finished in 2006. The results shown that 7.2 per cent of
the women who had taken the hormone treatment developed Alzheimer’s, whereas
13.4 per cent of the women who had never used the therapy developed the
disease.
Nevertheless, there are possible risks among the benefits of a hormone
therapy when menopause comes into our lifes, as the use of them may also
present side effects: raise the risk of heart disease, stroke, blood clots, and
breast cancer. Because of those reasons, some experts advise taking low doses
and only for the time needed.
Taking into account the benefits and the risks of being under a hormone
replacement treatment, would you think of taking the pills when menopause and
all the undesirable symptoms appear?
In case some of you do not know what menopause is about, this video will
make clear any question you may have.
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I believe that any kind of pills may have side effects, even the more inoffensive. However, women may take this risk to avoid a terrible disease like Alzheimer. I can relate this to the topic of my OP--brain declines at 45--because both menopause and decline happen at a same period of time. Perhaps this could be an important link that could be studied. I hope these scientists find a similar treatment for men, although it may be a little bit harder.
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