Sex Hormones and Incident Dementia in Older Men: The Health in Men Study

Dementia affects approximately 6.5% of adults over the age of 65 and its burden is projected to rise (Wu et al., 2017). As current treatments are mostly symptomatic, prevention is key to reducing the burden of dementia. It has been suggested that more than a third of dementia cases could be prevented by systematically addressing potentially modifiable risk factors from across the life-span (Livingston et al., 2017). One potentially modifiable factor not included in these analyses was testosterone status.

Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - August 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Andrew H. Ford, Bu B. Yeap, Leon Flicker, Graeme J. Hankey, S.A. Paul Chubb, Jonathan Golledge, Osvaldo P. Almeida Source Type: research