Hormone Use and Cognitive Performance in Women of Advanced Age

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 182-186

  Buckwalter, J Galen ^a,b   Crooks, Valerie C ^a   Robins, Sean B ^a   Petitti, Diana B ^a  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b Southern California Permanente Medical Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Estrogen; Postmenopausal women; Verbal memory

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CALIFORNIA VERBAL LEARNING TEST; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LOGICAL MEMORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POSTMENOPAUSE; UNITED STATES; VERBAL MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEMORY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 1242307254     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52053.x     Document Type: Article

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