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" A new study has found no evidence that cholesterol-lowering statin drugs can help to prevent Alzheimer&amp;#039;s disease. According to Dr Zoe Arvanitakis, associate professor at Rush University Medical Centre, some studies had suggested that people on statins were less likely to have Alzheimer&amp;#039;s disease, the most common form of dementia in the UK. &amp;#039;But our longitudinal findings found no relation between statin use and Alzheimer&amp;#039;s,&amp;#039; she revealed. &amp;#039;The study also found no association between taking statins and a slower cognitive decline among older people,&amp;#039; she added. The findings are based on a study involving 929 Catholic clergy members who were 75 years old, on average, at the start of the study. The participants had all agreed to have a brain autopsy in their event of their death and the study found that statin use at any point during the 12-year study had no effect on the pathology of Alzheimer&amp;#039;s disease in the brain. \u00A9 Adfero Ltd "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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