HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY OF MENOPAUSE AND PREVENTION OF NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS

Aging of the population in industrialized countries, as a result of in creased life expectancy is associated with an increased risk of neurol ogical diseases, Prevention of disability is one of the objectives of hormone replacement therapy of menopause (HRTM). Based on a review of the literature, the authors present the benefits of HRTM in terms of p revention of neurological complications. Estrogens directly and indire ctly influence the neurological status. A decreased incidence of cereb rovascular accidents and dementia of the Alzheimer type and improvemen t of cognitive function in cases of dementia have been reported in sev eral clinical and epidemiological papers. These data need to be confir med by large-scale prospective studies conducted by epidemiologists an d neurologists.