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Major New Study Supports Validity of Statin Drugs’ Potential for Alzheimer’s Treatment

August 29, 2007

In a newly published brain disease study quoted on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, scientists for the first time have found evidence showing an association between statin use and a lower risk of neuropathologic changes in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) (Neurology August,
2007;69;878-885).
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