About 80% of women have a type of menopausal symptoms – and the more symptoms experience, the greater the chances of developing dementia later in life.
The findings were published in PLOS One magazine after a study by the University of Calgary.
Researchers analyzed the data of 896 women after menopause who participated in the Canadian Platform for Internet Research to investigate health, quality of life, recognition, behavior, function and custody in the study of aging.
Women were reported to researchers their perimenopausal symptoms. Their cognitive function was measured using the degree of daily recognition (ECOG-II) and the mild list of behavioral damage (over-C), with higher results that show greater severity.
Those with greater menopausal symptoms had higher results for both cognitive tests, indicating more severe decline.
“One of the most interesting findings was the link between symptoms of symptoms of menopausal symptoms and mild behavioral impairment (over) – an increasingly known syndrome as an early indication of the risk of dementia,” said study author Lead Zahinoor Ismail, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, Epidemiology and Patology Digital Digital.
“These new findings highlight the need to take into account not only cognitive changes but also mood, social interaction and personality changes that appear and continue in later menopause life.”
While hormone therapy was not significantly associated with cognitive function, it was shown that it had an important link to fewer symptoms on, according to researchers, emphasizing the need for further research in the possible role of hormone therapy in long -term brain health.
“Interestingly, participants who reported to use estrogen -based hormone therapy during perimenopause had lower severity of the symptoms of behavioral damage,” Ismail noted.
Alexa Fiffick, a Board Certified Family Medicine physician, specializing in menopause, stated that previous data have shown a higher load of symptoms, it is somewhat reduced to cognitive function and perhaps madness.
Some studies have shown that even when hot ignitions are not perceived by a woman, they are still associated with the worsening cognitive function, according to the Ohio doctor.
“It is believed that the symptoms of the vasomotor are associated with the development of white matter hyperintensity in the brain, such as what the vascular madness appears in the image,” Fiffick, which was not involved in the new study, said Fox News Digital.
“We still have to get the data that VM treatment will prevent cognitive decline, but we hope that with menopausal hormone therapy and other non-hormonal options, we may be able to obtain this data in the near future.”
Possible restrictions
Researchers accepted some study restrictions.
“This study is crucified, it means that it takes a picture in time than to trace the changes over the years,” Ismail Fox News Digital told.
This means that it can only identify associations between menopausal symptoms and cognitive health and behavior, but cannot determine if the symptoms directly cause changes in brain health.
“To better understand the long -term impact of menopause on the risk of dementia, future research should follow participants over time and include biological data, such as hormone levels and biomarkers associated with the brain (we are, in fact, doing so now),” Ismail added.
The study also did not appreciate the severity of the symptoms, which could play a key role in understanding risk.
Another restriction is that the study focused on the most reported menopausal symptoms, but it is possible for some participants to suffer additional symptoms.
“In fact, it is reported that there may be 30+ symptoms that women may experience when undergoing menopausal transitions,” Ismail said. “While we have included a category of” other symptoms “, it may not completely reflect the range of experiences.”
The study also did not distinguish between different types and hormonal therapy formulations.
“Future studies will be able to research whether specific types of HT have different effects on brain health,” Ismail noted.
Tamsen Fadal, a menopausal expert in New York and author of the next book “How of menopause: Take responsibility for your health, recover your life and feel even better than before,” she said was not surprised by the results of the study.
“The research has been showing this connection for a while,” she told Fox News Digital. “Menopausal women’s brain scans reveal true structural and metabolic changes, and this study reinforces that we cannot remove these symptoms as’ normal aging.” “
“For a long time, women have experienced brain fog, memory mistakes and mood changes, and many of us have been rested,” Fadal continued.
“This research simply reinforces that menopause is a neurological shift as much as it is a hormonal.”
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