About 80 % of women have a type of menopause – and more symptoms that they suffer from, and the greater the chances of developing dementia later in life.
The results were published in Plos One after a study conducted by Calgary University.
The researchers analyzed the data of 896 women after the menstruation that participated in the Canadian platform for online research to investigate health, the quality of life, perception, behavior and function and provide care for the study of aging.
Women reported the symptoms of menopause for researchers. Its cognitive function was measured using the daily perception scale (ECOG-II) and a moderate moderate behavior review menu (MBI-C), with higher degrees indicating greater intensity.
Those who suffer from the symptoms of the largest menopause had higher degrees for both cognitive tests, indicating a more severe decrease.
“One of the most interesting results was the relationship between the burden of menopause and moderate behavioral weakness (MBI) – an increasingly recognized syndrome as an early indication of dementia,” the main study of Kalgari, “.
“These new results highlight the need to consider cognitive changes, but also to change mood, social interaction and personality changes that appear and continue in subsequent life after menopause.”
While hormonal therapy was not very associated with the cognitive function, it was found that it has a great link to the less symptoms of MBI, according to researchers, with a focus on the need for further research in the potential role of hormonal therapy in brain health in the long term.
“Interestingly, the participants who reported the use of estrogen -based hormone treatment during menopause had a significant decrease in symptoms of moderate behavior significantly,” Ismail noted.
Alexa Fiffick, a family medicine doctor accredited by the Board of Directors specializing in menopause, said that previous data showed that the burden of higher symptoms is somehow related to the low cognitive function and perhaps dementia.
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“It is believed that the symptoms of the bowl associated with the development of hyperthyroidism in the brain, as it appears to be vascular dementia in photography.”
“We still have to obtain data that prevents VMS processing cognitive decline, but we hope that we hope to treat menopause and other non -hormonal options, we may be able to obtain this data in the near future.”
Possible restrictions
The researchers admitted several restrictions on the study.
“This study is reviewed, which means that it embodies a time shot instead of tracking changes over the years,” Ismail told Fox News Digital.
This means that it can only determine the connections between the symptoms of menopause and cognitive and behavioral health, but it is not possible to determine whether the symptoms directly cause changes in brain health.
Ismail added: “To better understand the long -term impact of menopause at the danger of dementia, future research must follow the participants over time and integrate biological data, such as hormone levels and biological signs related to the brain (we, in fact, do that now),” Ismail added.
The study also did not assess the severity of the symptoms, which can play a major role in understanding risk.
There are other restrictions on the fact that the study focused on the symptoms of the most common menopause, but some participants can have additional symptoms.
Ismail said: “In fact, it is reported that there may be 30+ symptoms that females may face when undergoing menopause.” “Although we included a” other symptoms “category, it may not completely reflect the scope of experiments.”
The study also did not distinguish between different types and hormonal therapy formations.
“Future studies will be able to explore whether specific types of HT have different effects on brain health,” Ismail pointed out.
“How to Menopause is responsible for your health, restoring your life, and you feel better than before,” said Tamsen Fadal, a menopause and the next book author, said that she was not surprised by the results of the study.
“Research has indicated this call for a while,” she told Fox News Digital. “Brain tests for menopause reveals real structural and academic changes, and this study enhances that we can not only clean these symptoms as” natural aging. “
“For a long time, women were suffering from the fog of the brain, memory phones and mood changes, and many of us have been rejected.”
“This research only enhances that menopause is a nervous transformation as it is hormonal.”
