New US research has found that taking hormone therapy -- medications that replace the female hormones no longer made by the body after menopause -- could help improve cognition postmenopause.
The new study looked at more than 2,000 postmenopausal women and followed them over a 12-year period to investigate the link between the hormone estrogen and cognitive decline.
The researchers analyzed the women's exposure to estrogen by recording information such as the women's age at menarche, which is a female's first period, their age at menopause, the number of pregnancies, duration of breastfeeding and use of hormone therapy.