The brain is directly influenced by hormone changes, and scientists suspect this could explain why women are generally more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease.
Women are more likely to experience steep changes to their estrogen levels at different life stages, and a new study adds to evidence that those fluctuations might have something to do with brain health later in life.
The research is published in the journal Neurology.
“Our results suggest that hormonal exposure across different periods of a woman’s life may have cumulative effects also on the cerebrovascular health in later life,” says neurobiologist Anna Marseglia, of the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
