Blood in Post-Menopausal Women Offers Clues to Brain Damage, Memory Loss

The blood of post-menopausal women may hold insight to whether they are at an increased risk of brain damage that leads to memory loss and stroke. A study, as reported in the February 2013 edition of Neurology, suggests that the blood’s tendency to clot may contribute to a number of events leading to brain damage in women who have gone through menopause. During the study, women with higher levels of thrombogenic microvesicles (platelets likely to cause blood to clot) were more likely to have an increase in the amount of white matter hyperintensities, a factor in memory loss. For more information, click here to read the full article.