Living Well 60+ March-April 2020

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March/April 2020

Coffee Offers Women Some Benefits

Enjoy your java and ward off dementia

The frequency of dementia doubles every five years beginning at age 60.

by Dr. Tom Miller, Staff Writer

Ladies, take your time enjoying that cup of coffee. It may be working in your favor. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin found in a large group of older women, those who consumed higher amounts of caffeine had lower rates of dementia than women who consumed lower amounts over as many as 10 years of follow-up in the study. The results are based on 6,467 community-dwelling women age 65 years and older who self-reported their daily caffeine consumption upon enrollment in the Women’s Health Initiative and Memory Study (WHIMS), funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

The WHIMS study recognized excessive memory decline or dementia affects an increasing number of women as they grow older. The frequency of dementia doubles every five years beginning at age 60, making the discovery of ways to prevent or slow the disease imperative. Previous studies have indicated changes in memory may be associated with the female hormonal decline that occurs after menopause, but more research is needed to establish the link between menopause and poorer memory function. Researchers believe taking the female hormones estrogen and/or progesterone may protect COFFEE Continued on Page 29

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