Female Reproductive Period Length, Parity and Hormonal Replacement Therapy and Dementia: The Elsi-Brazil Study.

Introduction: Alzheimer's disease and other dementia have a higher incidence among women and that risk factors specific to the female sex could be involved. Few studies looked into female reproductive factors and their association with dementia in low-and middle-income countries.

Materials And Methods: We analyzed the baseline data from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil) and included data from 2594 women aged 60 years and older.

Effect of antibiotics and low-crude protein diets on growth performance, health, immune response, and fecal microbiota of growing pigs.

This study aimed to investigate the effects of diets with and without antibiotics supplementation and diets with 18.5% and 13.0% crude protein (CP) on growth performance, carcass characteristics, disease incidence, fecal microbiota, immune response, and antioxidant capacity of growing pigs.