A large new study has suggested there may be a link between women’s use of hormone replacement therapy used to treat the symptoms of menopause and the risk of developing dementia.
Globally, dementia affects more women than men. Now, a large Danish study has examined the association between the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), also called menopausal hormone therapy (MHT), and the development of dementia, according to the type of hormone treatment, duration of use, and age.
MHT relieves the common symptoms of menopause, such as hot flushes and night sweats. It also addresses long-term biological changes, such as bone density loss, that result from declining levels of the naturally occurring hormones estrogen and progesterone during and after menopause.
MHT includes tablets containing only estrogen, a combination of estrogen and progestogen (a synthetic version of progesterone), and skin patches, gels and creams.
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