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Blood-based proteomic signatures of spontaneous menopause: Implication for later-life brain aging and Alzheimer's disease risk

2026-02-11 neurology Title + abstract only
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Menopause is a hallmark process in biological aging that has been associated with later life neurodegenerative risk. We leveraged proteomics data from multiple cohorts (N>3,000) to identify biological changes underlying menopause and its links to brain aging. In N=80 rigorously-phenotyped pre-, peri-, and postmenopausal women with serum NULISAseq proteomics, spontaneous menopause was characterized by dysregulation in inflammatory, synaptic, metabolic, and Alzheimers disease (AD) biologic process...

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