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Statins Man Boost Memory Loss People at high risk for dementia who took cholesterol-lowering statins are half as likely to develop dementia as those who do not take statins. Satins are drugs that specifically lower LDL or ad cholesterol. A University of Michigan study of older Mexican-Americans suffered from metabolic conditions that put them at risk for developing dementia, Alzheimer's or cognitive impairment without dementia, said Mary Haan, epidemiology professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and lead author of the study. Some of the risk factors for dementia include high cholesterol, Type 2 diabetes, obesity and hypertension. "The bottom line is that if a person takes statins over a course of about 5-7 years, it reduces the risk of dementia by half, and that's a really big change," said Haan. The result of this study showed "If you started using statins before the dementia developed you could prevent it in about half of the cases," said Haan. It's likely that many people taking statins have already benefited unknowingly from the dementia fighting properties. The next step, Haan said, is to determine exactly how the statins work on the biochemical pathways involved in dementia. The research is funded by the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the NIH, and the American Health Assistance Foundation. Co-authors include Caryn Cramer and Sandro Galea of the U-M SPH Department of Epidemiology, Kenneth Langa of the U-M Division of General and Internal Medicine and U-M Institute for Social Research and John Kalbfleisch of U-M SPH Department of Biostatistics. Content Source: University of Michigan. Image credit: National Institutes of Health, www.nih.gov The University of Michigan School of Public Health has been working to promote health and prevent disease since 1941, and is consistently ranked among the top five public health schools in the nation. Estimate Your Life-Expectancy ... Take the Death Calculator Longevity Quiz

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