Statins and Dementia
Published in: Archives of Neurology, v. 58, no. 7, Editorial, July 2001, p. 1169-1170
Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 2001
Use of statin cholesterol-lowering drugs is observationally associated with lower rates of Alzheimer disease (AD). The authors make an even stronger point: data are consistent with and indeed can be taken to support the contrary conclusion--that high cholesterol protects against dementia. Lipid-lowering drugs are used in the context of--and may serve statistically as a marker for--elevated cholesterol.
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