Simvastatin is associated with a reduced incidence of dementia and Parkinson's disease

BACKGROUND: Statins are a class of medications that reduce cholesterol by inhibiting 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase. Whether statins can benefit patients with dementia remains unclear because of conflicting results. We hypothesized that some of the confusion in the literature might...

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Autores principales: Wolozin, Benjamin, Wang, Stanley W, Li, Nien-Chen, Lee, Austin, Lee, Todd A, Kazis, Lewis E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1955446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17640385
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-5-20

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1955446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17640385
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-5-20

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