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How do you counsel women post-natural menopause who are interested in HRT for reducing dementia risk?

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Neurology · Vanderbilt University Medical Center

The literature on estrogen replacement and dementia risk is mixed. The Women's Health Study originally found that estrogen replacement was a risk factor for dementia, but later analyses have not confirmed this, and some (as the questionnaire mentions) have suggested a protective effect. Not all stud...

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