High Cholesterol and Alzheimer's: This is the article that inspired the Newsweek article, #12 below, with the lead story that statins "protect from" Alzheimer's -- which is the exact opposite of the truth about statins and Alzheimer's.
The only relationship between high cholesterol and Alzheimer's the authors could find was if they looked back 30 years. What they're not saying is that, in the intervening years, cholesterol levels fell for those who later developed Alzheimer's. While no one has said exactly why their levels might have fallen, statin drugs are a good bet.
Here's the only thing that the article above has to say about statin drugs:
"Information on lipid-lowering treatments, which have been suggested to decrease dementia risk, was not available for this study."
You can be sure that, if there was any inkling that the statins might have helped, these researchers would have been allowed access to those statin treatment data. You can read my essay on statins and Alzheimer's to learn why statins would likely cause Alzheimer's.
Physicians tend to confine AD and VaD to geriatric
age borders, and address symptoms as they occur. Our
study, along with others [21] , points out the importance
of addressing risk factors as early as midlife, before the
underlying disease(s) or the symptoms appear. Elevated
midlife serum total cholesterol increases the risk of both AD and VaD, a finding that adds to the existing body of
evidence on a degree of overlap between the two dementia
types in terms of risk factors, symptoms and neuropathology
[22] . Moreover, dementia and cardiovascular disease
are common major health problems, share several
risk factors and often occur simultaneously, interacting
with one another. Effective management of such disorders
thus warrants a transdisciplinary approach.
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