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...with chronic or debilitating disease - as well as VIP patrons of a Barcelona nightclub and investigators requiring special access to confidential drug-trafficking case files at the Ministry of Justice in Mexico. Over the next two years, VeriChip and Alzheimer's Community Care plans to inject 110 patients with dementia or Alzheimer's with the chip as well. But VeriChip came under fire in September - shortly after the first 90 or so Alzheimer's patients received its chips in Florida - after an AP report unearthed studies suggesting the chips may cause cancer in laboratory animals. Within two weeks...
...younger the age of the woman at the time of oophorectomy, the higher her risk of cognitive impairment or dementia because there is a longer period in which she is deprived of estrogen and neuroprotection," says Rocca. "Our study suggests that if there is good reason to remove the ovaries before age 50, there is good reason to consider [estrogen] treatment until 50, the age when a woman naturally reaches menopause...
While its general findings are valid, Rocca's study had limitations. For instance, the participants' dementia was measured not in person, but through a cognitive test over the phone or through a proxy. Also, the women had had their surgeries between 1950 and 1987 - oophorectomy procedures and estrogen therapy may have been different then than...
...link between protective mental health benefits and estrogen therapy appears to conflict with the findings of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), which found that women who took estrogen alone or estrogen plus progestin from age 65 increased their risk of mild impairment or dementia - along with other cardiovascular problems. But the authors of the Neurology studies stress that the age-dependent window is key when considering therapy and mental health. "Below 50, estrogen is protective. After 65 it is harmful. But nobody really knows between 50 and 65," says Rocca. "In the middle it's still unclear...
...however, his new studies may well change standards of care. Women who are considering a hysterectomy or ovary removal now also need to be aware of the increased risk of dementia, says Shuster, who encourages patients who have had a hysterectomy and oophorectomy at a young age to take estrogen until the natural age of menopause, if not beyond. "The big news is that we shouldn't be withdrawing estrogen from women who need it," says Shuster. "Medically, legally, there is an exaggerated fear of prescribing estrogen, and women have a fear of taking estrogen because...