Re: statins don't reduce dementia risk

Yes, excellent post!

I second your questions, AND I would like to know what protocol the
researchers used to differentiate between the dementias they expected, and
the dementia (memory loss, cognitive damage, confusion, aphasia, repeated
episodes of transient global amnesia, and big black holes in memory) CAUSED
by statin adverse effects.

As we now know from Dr. Golomb's research, Cognitive Damage is second only
to muscle damage (myopathy, myositis, muscle pain, mitochondrial damage) in
the incidence of adverse effects from statin drugs, including Atorvastatin
(aka Lipitor), fluvastatin (aka Lescol), lovastatin (aka Mevacor),
pravastatin (aka Pravachol), simvastatin (aka Zocor), rosuvastatin (aka
Crestor), and cerivastatin (Baycol),

Third most common adverse effect from statin drugs: Nerve damage, including
Peripheral Neuropathy and Polyneuropathy.

Just how did they distinguish between Statin-caused Dementia as an Adverse
Effect vs "developing dementia from any cause (Alzheimer's disease, mixed
Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia or vascular dementia alone)
compared with those who had never used
statins."

We know that M. Muldoon has shown that statins cause measurable cognitive
damage in people after only 6 months on the drug, repeatably with different
statins and different dosages of statins.

What did they do to identify and differentiate the statin-caused dementia in
the group of people who took the statin for up to 5 years in this study?

They found " there were 480 cases of dementia, including 245 attributable to
Alzheimer's disease alone."

HOW MANY OF THE 235 CASES OF NON-ALZ DEMENTIA WERE DIRECTLY ATTRIBUTABLE TO
THE SECOND MOST COMMON ADVERSE EFFECT -- STATIN-CAUSED MEMORY LOSS AND
COGNITIVE DAMAGE?

<mmlevy46@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1120874781.546347.261630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks for the article, zee. would very much like to see the important
> #'s from this study. was there an increase in dementia and alzheimer's
> in patients on statins? of the 480 cases of dementia, how many of
> these took statins; same ? for the 245 attributable to alzheimer's. i
> know that was not the question, but would truly like the information.
>


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