Estrogen and Memory
Abstract
Researchers at the National Institute on Aging have another reason for postmenopausal women to consider estrogen replacement therapy: it may help slow normal, age-related declines in memory. In the December issue of Neurology, the researchers reported on 288 women enrolled in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging between 1978 and 1994. They compared scores on a visual memory test taken by 116 women receiving estrogen therapy with the scores of 172 women who had never used any type of...