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Does estrogen cause dementia? or does stopping it unmask cognitive changes that would occur naturally?

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Tourettet Disorder?: Life time prevelence- 0, 5 percent, male-female ratio 3:1. Average age at onset 7 yr ( ranging from infancy to age 17 yr), usually w a simple motor tic. Pt eventually has both motor tics and vocal tics within a year. They may be simple or complex.

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Dr. Maureen Nash answered

Specializes in Geriatric Psychiatry

Increases risk: The most evidence supports that estrogen taken in a pill or patch likely increases the risk of alzheimers dementia which is the most common type..

Answered 3/26/2013

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