Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine

F Mauvais-Jarvis, NB Merz, PJ Barnes, RD Brinton… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Clinicians can encounter sex and gender disparities in diagnostic and therapeutic
responses. These disparities are noted in epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical …

Brain energy rescue: an emerging therapeutic concept for neurodegenerative disorders of ageing

SC Cunnane, E Trushina, C Morland… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
The brain requires a continuous supply of energy in the form of ATP, most of which is
produced from glucose by oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria, complemented by …

Lipid metabolism and Alzheimer's disease: clinical evidence, mechanistic link and therapeutic promise

F Yin - The FEBS journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age‐associated neurodegenerative disorder with
multifactorial etiology, intersecting genetic and environmental risk factors, and a lack of …

Understanding the impact of sex and gender in Alzheimer's disease: a call to action

RA Nebel, NT Aggarwal, LL Barnes, A Gallagher… - Alzheimer's & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction Precision medicine methodologies and approaches have advanced our
understanding of the clinical presentation, development, progression, and management of …

Hormone replacement therapy is associated with improved cognition and larger brain volumes in at-risk APOE4 women: results from the European Prevention of …

RNM Saleh, M Hornberger, CW Ritchie… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2023 - Springer
Background The risk of dementia is higher in women than men. The metabolic
consequences of estrogen decline during menopause accelerate neuropathology in …

Age, APOE and sex: triad of risk of Alzheimer's disease

BC Riedel, PM Thompson, RD Brinton - The Journal of steroid biochemistry …, 2016 - Elsevier
Age, apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE) and chromosomal sex are well-established risk factors for
late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD; AD). Over 60% of persons with AD harbor at least …

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 …

Sex differences in the association of global amyloid and regional tau deposition measured by positron emission tomography in clinically normal older adults

RF Buckley, EC Mormino, JS Rabin, TJ Hohman… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Mounting evidence suggests that sex differences exist in the pathologic
trajectory of Alzheimer disease. Previous literature shows elevated levels of cerebrospinal …

Endogenous and exogenous estrogen exposures: how women's reproductive health can drive brain aging and inform Alzheimer's prevention

S Jett, N Malviya, E Schelbaum, G Jang… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
After advanced age, female sex is the major risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease
(AD), the most common cause of dementia affecting over 24 million people worldwide. The …

The peri-menopause in a woman's life: a systemic inflammatory phase that enables later neurodegenerative disease

M McCarthy, AP Raval - Journal of neuroinflammation, 2020 - Springer
The peri-menopause or menopausal transition—the time period that surrounds the final
years of a woman's reproductive life—is associated with profound reproductive and …