{"id":11011,"date":"2018-07-24T08:19:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11011"},"modified":"2018-07-24T08:19:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:19:52","slug":"hormone-levels-likely-influence-a-womans-risk-of-alzheimers-but-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11011","title":{"rendered":"Hormone Levels Likely Influence A Woman&#8217;s Risk Of Alzheimer&#8217;s, But How?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s new evidence that a woman&#8217;s levels of female sex hormones, including estrogen and progesterone, can influence her risk of Alzheimer&#8217;s and other forms of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Women are less likely to develop dementia later in life if they begin to menstruate earlier, go through menopause later, and have more than one child, researchers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/aaic\/pressroom.asp\">reported<\/a>\u00a0Monday at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/aaic\/\">Alzheimer&#8217;s Association International Conference<\/a>\u00a0in Chicago. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2018\/07\/23\/630688342\/might-sex-hormones-help-protect-women-from-alzheimer-s-after-all-maybe?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=64671259&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-98oE80K57-8znWprDTaeFonDW5kXyqmnR5x0kmSy2OQSeQi3KFh8gatQ_NGIyisJZ_CfmdDtK9E2Tb1Mz02rhfpnSq8w&amp;_hsmi=64671259\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) There&#8217;s new evidence that a woman&#8217;s levels of female sex hormones, including estrogen and progesterone,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11012,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions\/11012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}