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Women's brain aging: Effects of sex-hormone exposure, pregnancies, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease.
Human brain mapping - 15 Dec 2020
de Lange Ann-Marie G, Barth Claudia, Kaufmann Tobias, Maximov Ivan I, van der Meer Dennis, Agartz Ingrid, Westlye Lars T
Abstract excerpt
Sex hormones such as estrogen fluctuate across the female lifespan, with high levels during reproductive years and natural decline during the transition to menopause. Women's exposure to estrogen may influence their heightened risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) relative to men, but little is known about how it affects normal brain aging. Recent findings from the UK Biobank demonstrate less apparent brain aging in...
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