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1Center of Sleep Medicine, Dept. Neurology Villa Serena Hospital, Città S. Angelo, Pescara, Italy; Villa Serena Foundation for the Research, Città S. Angelo, Pescara, Italy.
Abstract:
Sleep disturbances are common among women from middle age onwards, into advanced age, and they are connected to menopause. The loss of ovarian hormones can alter cognition directly but probably also through sleep disturbances, which play an important role as a risk factor and a pathogenetic factor in dementia. Alzheimer's disease is common in older women. Knowledge of the fascinating relationship between sleep disturbances and cognitive decline, and in particular the sex/gender differences, is growing but needs to be further investigated.
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