Statins Against Alzheimer’s Disease | Brain Blogger

Statins Against Alzheimer’s Disease | Brain Blogger: Taking into account the association between high plasma cholesterol and AD, Tramontine and colleagues recently conducted a study to explore the role of statins — a class of lipid-lowering drugs — in the protection against the disease. Although the positive effects of statins on cardiovascular diseases are well known, their potential neuroprotective effects demand further characterization.