It’s a bit of a double jeopardy. Suffering from early menopause would also increase the risk of developing any form of dementia, researchers believe in a recent study.
Usually, menopause is estimated to occur around the age of 50. But many women experience it early, sometimes even before the age of 40. However, according to research published by the American Heart Association, reported by Neuroscience News, the latter would be more at risk of developing dementia than the others. Explanations.
35% more risk
By dementia, we mean of course the most well-known disease in this field: Alzheimer’s disease. But not only. As a reminder, dementia can have different causes, such as blood clots which would have deprived the brain of oxygen in places or attacks which would have caused cerebral hematomas.
The researchers were interested in a British cohort and more particularly in the examinations of 153,291 women with an average age of 60 years. They studied their cases and calculated the link that there might be between being menopausal early and the risk of seeing one’s cognitive abilities decline with age. After having sorted the antecedents, the habits in terms of tobacco… it emerged that for women who had gone through menopause before age 40, researchers estimated a 35% increased risk of dementia. After age 45, the risk is 1.3 times higher than for postmenopausal women at a more normal age (50/51).
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