(1) The occurrence of these cells in Pap tests from hysterectomized patients indicates a different origin.(2) The 120 hysterectomized women age 60 and above involved in the study had mild to moderate AD.(3) One of those trials sought to determine whether estrogen replacement therapy would slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease in postmenopausal, hysterectomized women.(4) Cloutier-Steele includes her own story in which she was hysterectomised in 1991 for possible endometriosis.