Women Who Use Hormone Therapy After Menopause May Not Have A Lower Risk Of Alzheimer’s, Study Suggests.

reports, “Women who use hormone therapy after menopause may not have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s,” researchers found after analyzing data on some “8,000 Finnish women who were between the ages of 47 and 56 when the study began in 1989.” At baseline and then every few years after that, women “reported on their hormone use.” Overall, “there was no correlation between women’s hormone use and their risk of Alzheimer’s disease,” but “women who said they’d used hormones for more than 10 years were half as likely to develop Alzheimer’s as nonusers were.” The findings were published online Feb. 15 in Neurology. Healio (2/16, Oldt) also cover the study. https://consumer.healthday.com/cognitive-health-information-26/alzheimer-s-news-20/hrt-won-t-lower-women-s-alzheimer-s-risk-study-finds-719716.html