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Does taking statins affect the pathological burden in autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer’s dementia?

BACKGROUND: The efficacy of cholesterol lowering agents, specifically statins, in slowing the rate of decline of cognitive function in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients is not yet fully understood. Our team’s previously published paper showed that patients who used statins demonstrated no increase i...

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Autores principales: Crum, Jana, Wilson, Jeffrey, Sabbagh, Marwan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6169006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30285877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13195-018-0430-7