How To Prevent a Stroke - One Minute Video

Post menopausal women have an increased risk of stroke, so please watch this one minute video.

This video has been produced by the National Health Service and is currently being shown on British TV.
It is aimed at helping people to recognise the first signs of stroke, and act FAST to save lives and reduce the damage caused.

Does HRT Shrink Women's Brains?

According to a US study led by researchers at Wake Forest University, two key areas of the brain involved in thinking and memory were smaller in women who had taken HRT than in those who had been given a "dummy" placebo pill.

These findings may explain previous studies linking HRT to dementia and an increased risk of memory loss.

The big flaw in this study was that the researchers admitted that they they were unable to take brain scans of the women before they began takin HRT.

So in actual fact the brain shrinkage could have occured before these women began taking HRT.

Yet again a big broo ha ha about nothing as this doesn't prove anything.
More studies would have to be done before any conclusions about brain shrinkage and HRT can be made.