Re:Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory i...
by efm on Thursday December 17, 2015 @12:43PM
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The Cochrane report on statins confirms your claim:
http://www.cochrane.org/CD004816/VASC_statins-for-the-primar...
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Re:Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory i...
by ank_the_elder on Thursday December 17, 2015 @06:23PM
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There's a lot of subtlety when it comes to statins:
"Statins are beneficial, but some have questioned whether their benefits are due to their ability to lower cholesterol or to their anti-inflammatory effects, or both. There are two competing hypotheses, the LDL hypothesis and the statin hypothesis. A new study in The New England Journal of Medicine sheds some light on that controversy and tips the balance in favor of the LDL hypothesis."
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/update-on-cholesterol-a...