Re: statins don't reduce dementia risk

"Sharon Hope" <shope@xxxxxxxx> wrote in part:

>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.
>>
>

Why should one care? It seems like a secondary issue. I would be
happy to take a statin if I knew it cut the risk of dementia in
half, even if you could prove that most of those remaining
dementias were caused by the statin in some way.
--
Jim Chinnis Warrenton, Virginia, USA
.

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