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Wilms

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2. It's Not Dementia, It's Your Heart Medication: Cholesterol Drugs and Memory

Reply to TheDebbieDee (Original post)

Sun Jun 24, 2012, 02:49 AM

Jun 2012

...Nevertheless, many experts are starting to believe that a small percentage of the population is at risk, and they are calling for increased public awareness of the possible cognitive side effects of statins—symptoms that may be misdiagnosed as dementia in the aging patients who take them.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=its-not-dementia-its-your-heart-medication

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Using a statin to battle high cholesterol or to prevent heart disease? [View all] TheDebbieDee Jun 2012 OP

I take a statin, and I'm doing well with it. CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2012 #1

It's Not Dementia, It's Your Heart Medication: Cholesterol Drugs and Memory Wilms Jun 2012 #2

Not to mention the pain that they cause MiniMe Jun 2012 #3

I was on statins for 25 years. sense Jun 2012 #4