14. Hormone Therapy and Alzheimer’s Disease A 4-year experiment involving 4532 women was conducted at 39 medical centers to study the benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Half of the women took placebos and half used a widely prescribed type of hormone replacement therapy. There were 40 cases of dementia in the hormone group and 21 in the placebo group.19 Is there sufficient evidence to indicate that the risk of dementia is higher for patients using the HRT? Test at the 1% level of significance.