Sex Hormone Therapies and Alzheimer's Disease: Prevention vs Treatment

Abstract

Background: Two‐thirds of persons living with Alzheimer's are women. Further, the impact of APOE‐e4 on risk of Alzheimer's is greater in women which is particularly evident in heterozygous women carrying one APOE‐e4 allele. Greater risk of Alzheimer's in women is partially explained by ∼4.

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