Increased Alzheimer's risk during the menopause transition: a 3-year longitudinal brain imaging study

L Mosconi, A Rahman, I Diaz, X Wu, O Scheyer… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Two thirds of all persons with late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) are women. Identification
of sex-based molecular mechanisms underpinning the female-based prevalence of AD …

Sex differences in Alzheimer risk: Brain imaging of endocrine vs chronologic aging

L Mosconi, V Berti, C Quinn, P McHugh, G Petrongolo… - Neurology, 2017 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: This observational multimodality brain imaging study investigates emergence of
endophenotypes of late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD) risk during endocrine transition states …

Sex-driven modifiers of Alzheimer risk: a multimodality brain imaging study

A Rahman, E Schelbaum, K Hoffman, I Diaz, H Hristov… - Neurology, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To investigate sex differences in late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD) risks by
means of multimodality brain biomarkers (β-amyloid load via 11C-Pittsburgh compound B …

Female sex and Alzheimer's risk: the menopause connection

O Scheyer, A Rahman, H Hristov, C Berkowitz… - The journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Along with advanced age and apolipoprotein E (APOE)-4 genotype, female sex is a major
risk factor for developing late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). Considering that AD …

[HTML][HTML] Sex and gender driven modifiers of Alzheimer's: the role for estrogenic control across age, race, medical, and lifestyle risks

A Rahman, H Jackson, H Hristov… - Frontiers in aging …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Research indicates that after advanced age, the major risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's
disease is female sex. Out of every three AD patients, two are females with postmenopausal …

Female specific risk factors for the development of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology and cognitive impairment: Call for a precision medicine approach

C Udeh-Momoh, T Watermeyer - Ageing Research Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) includes a long asymptomatic stage, which precedes the formal
diagnosis of dementia. AD biomarker models provide a framework for precision medicine …

Sex differences in the association between AD biomarkers and cognitive decline

MEI Koran, M Wagener, TJ Hohman… - Brain imaging and …, 2017 - Springer
Women are disproportionately affected by Alzheimer's disease (AD) in terms of both disease
prevalence and severity. Previous autopsy work has suggested that, in the presence of AD …

Menopause impacts human brain structure, connectivity, energy metabolism, and amyloid-beta deposition

L Mosconi, V Berti, J Dyke, E Schelbaum, S Jett… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
All women undergo the menopause transition (MT), a neuro-endocrinological process that
impacts aging trajectories of multiple organ systems including brain. The MT occurs over …

Association of age at menopause and hormone therapy use with tau and β-amyloid positron emission tomography

GT Coughlan, TJ Betthauser, R Boyle… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Postmenopausal females represent around 70% of all individuals with
Alzheimer disease. Previous literature shows elevated levels of tau in cognitively …

Women's brain aging: Effects of sex‐hormone exposure, pregnancies, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease

AMG de Lange, C Barth, T Kaufmann… - Human brain …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sex hormones such as estrogen fluctuate across the female lifespan, with high levels during
reproductive years and natural decline during the transition to menopause. Women's …