According to researchers at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, people with high levels of cholesterol are at greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease compared to their low-cholesterol counterparts.
Kensuke Sasaki, MD, PhD wrote in the journal Nuerology that they had found a close association between elevated levels of cholesterol and brain plaques, also known as senile plaques. Brain plaques are quite common in those afflicted b Alzheimer’s.
Studies over a fifteen year period showed that individuals with lower levels of cholesterol (below 5.8 mmol/L) had less brain plaque or senile plaque than those with higher cholesterol.
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