Primary ovarian insufficiency

CA Stuenkel, A Gompel - New England Journal of Medicine, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Key Clinical Points Primary Ovarian Insufficiency Primary ovarian insufficiency should be
considered in women younger than 40 years of age who present with new-onset irregular …

Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain

ER Orchard, HJV Rutherford, AJ Holmes… - Trends in cognitive …, 2023 - cell.com
Profound environmental, hormonal, and neurobiological changes mark the transition to
motherhood as a major biosocial life event. Despite the ubiquity of motherhood, the …

Sex steroids and the female brain across the lifespan: insights into risk of depression and Alzheimer's disease

C Barth, A Crestol, AMG de Lange… - The Lancet Diabetes & …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Despite widespread sex differences in prevalence and presentation of numerous illnesses
affecting the human brain, there has been little focus on the effect of endocrine ageing. Most …

Is hormone replacement therapy a risk factor or a therapeutic option for Alzheimer's disease?

ZB Mills, RLM Faull, A Kwakowsky - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that accounts for
more than half of all dementia cases in the elderly. Interestingly, the clinical manifestations of …

Sex differences in dementia risk and risk factors: individual‐participant data analysis using 21 cohorts across six continents from the COSMIC consortium

J Gong, K Harris, DM Lipnicki… - Alzheimer's & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Sex differences in dementia risk, and risk factor (RF) associations with
dementia, remain uncertain across diverse ethno‐regional groups. Methods A total of …

Chromosome X-wide association study in case control studies of pathologically confirmed Alzheimer's disease in a European population

E Simmonds, G Leonenko, U Yaman, E Bellou… - Translational …, 2024 - nature.com
Although there are several genome-wide association studies available which highlight
genetic variants associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD), often the X chromosome is …

The truth about 17-beta estradiol: menopause beyond “old wives' tales”

LM Nelson - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
An “old wives' tale” is a traditional truth not based on fact (1). The term is now an outmoded
and disrespectful vernacular about women (2). Many spurious truths about menopause have …

Association of earlier age at menopause with risk of incident dementia, brain structural indices and the potential mediators: a prospective community-based cohort …

H Liao, J Cheng, D Pan, Z Deng, Y Liu, J Jiang… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background To date, there is no homogeneous evidence of whether earlier age at
menopause is associated with incident dementia. In addition, the underlying mechanism …

Age at menopause and all-cause and cause-specific dementia: a prospective analysis of the UK Biobank cohort

W Hao, C Fu, C Dong, C Zhou, H Sun… - Human …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
STUDY QUESTION Are there associations between natural or surgical menopause and
incident dementia by age at menopause? SUMMARY ANSWER Compared to age at …

Hormone Replacement Therapy and Alzheimer's Disease: Current State of Knowledge and Implications for Clinical Use

J Sayfullaeva, J McLoughlin… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder responsible for over
half of dementia cases, with two-thirds being women. Growing evidence from preclinical and …