Re: statins don't reduce dementia risk


"Jim Chinnis" <jchinnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Sharon Hope" <shope@xxxxxxxx> wrote in part:
>
>>
>>"Jim Chinnis" <jchinnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> "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
>>
>>But they found it did not reduce dementia risk
>>
>>What is your reaction to a drug that not only does not cut dementia risk,
>>but CAUSES dementia?
>
> I didn't realize that they found that dementia increased with
> statin treatment. How do you conclude that?
> --
> Jim Chinnis Warrenton, Virginia, USA

Didn't mean to imply that.

1- they found statins did not reduce dementia
2- we know from other sources statins cause cognitive damage, memory
loss, dementia


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