HRT shrinks the brain

A US-study has suggested that some forms of post-menopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can cause brain areas involved in thinking and memory to shrink slightly. The researchers carried out brain scans on 1,400 women aged 71 to 89 who had taken part in an earlier HRT trial. They found that two key areas of the brain were smaller in women who had taken conjugated equine oestrogen orally than ...

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