Cranial Therapy And Hydrochephalus

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contraceptives protect the female brain

A therapy of oral contraceptives and hormone replacement may protect women from the formation and rupture of brain aneurysms, abnormal dilation of blood vessels that can cause death

Research by the University Medical Center Rush of Chicago, found that 70% of cerebral aneurysms occurred in postmenopausal women with an average age of 52, coincided with a severe decline in estrogen levels .

"Understanding the link potential between low estrogen levels and aneurysms, we focus our fields of study with the hope of providing preventive therapies for women at risk, "said Dr. Michael Chen Hospital neurointerventional Rush, by releasing the study.

research, conducted during the 2008-2010 period between 4 000 randomized 682 women, aged between 31 and 80 years, also included the analysis of a group of 60 patients, of whom 65 % of cases had no blood vessels rupture and 35% had been broken.

Women in the study answered questions related to their gynecological history and medication use change estrogen, menstrual onset, age when her first child, use and duration of therapy of oral contraceptives and hormone replacement and age of onset of menopause.

The two research groups, whose average age is 53 years, there were strong similarities in various factors such as body mass index of 27.1 in the case group and 25.2 in the control group aneurysms.

For both the predominant age of menstrual onset was 13 years and 30 years, first pregnancy by 10% in the first group and 11% in the second.

The results of therapy of oral contraceptives and hormone replacement was 60 and 23.7% respectively for the first group and 77.6% and 44.8% for the control group.

Generally, the risk factors for aneurysm formation and rupture of the same include smoking, hypertension and excessive use of alcohol.

Moreover, comparing the average duration of oral contraceptive use, the case group was 2.6 years and 5.2 years of control.

"These differences in the use of estrogen-modifying agents indicate women with cerebral aneurysms less commonly used these therapies in the general population, "said Chen, a professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Radiology at Rush University.

The researchers conclude that the decline in estrogen that occurs in particularly in menstruation and menopause may explain why cerebral aneurysms are found more frequently in women at menopause, and that stabilization of estrogen may play a protective role in women who are at risk of aneurysms.

The research results were presented at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Surgery Neurointervencional (2010).

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