Hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, may lower the risk for dementia among postmenopausal women, new data in Alzheimer’s & Dementia show.The findings — although not showing causality — align with recently published data, which showed that women who used estrogen-only menopausal hormonal therapy later in life had lower risks for clinical dementia diagnoses and functional and

The study also found that women who naturally had lower exposure to oestrogen over their lifetime seemed to have a 16 per cent reduced odds of dementia

Biggest ever study of HRT following 183,000 post-menopausal women in Britain shows how the treatment appears to boost cognitive health and cut dementia risk