AAN: Surgical Menopause Tied to Brain Deficits

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SAN DIEGO -- Women who had surgically induced menopause at an early age saw a decline in cognitive function and possible signs of Alzheimer's disease pathology, researchers reported here.
Among women who had surgically induced menopause, younger age was significantly tied to declines in episodic memory (P=0.0003), semantic memory (P=0.0022), and global cognition (P=0.0007) compared with women who had natural menopause, according to Riley Bove, MD, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues......