Resource Roundup: A Whole Person Approach to Menopause
October 1, 2024
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Does Hormone Therapy Increase or Decrease Alzheimer’s Dementia Risk?
The data regarding the risk of Alzheimer’s dementia for women taking hormones is nuanced and sometimes contradictory. Fortunately, there are emerging, useful data and important considerations to help guide clinicians when working with menopausal patients.
In 2023, there were several studies published in prestigious medical journals describing a potential increased risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in women who received menopausal hormone therapy (MHT). This included a Danish nested case-control study in BMJ and a cross-sectional study from Wisconsin published in JAMA Neurology.
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