Alzheimer’s Prevention Linked to Hormone Use
From Times Wire Reports
Post-menopausal hormone replacement therapy may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease when the drugs are used for 10 years or more, a study said.
Published in the Journal of the American Medical Assn., the study will add to the fierce debate over hormone replacement therapy, which recent research has shown is not as safe and helpful as was previously believed.
“Our findings, along with other recent work, suggest that [such therapy] may be effective for the primary prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, if not for its treatment,” said the Veterans Administration, which had a team working on the study.
