Thomas Westerholm in Newsweek:
Older adults whose cholesterol levels change over time might be tied to a greater risk of dementia, according to a new study.
Researchers from Monash University in Australia published a study in Neurology conducted on nearly 10,000 participants with an average age of 74. The researchers measured cholesterol levels at the beginning of the study and over the course of three more visits, following the participants for more than five years.
‘A new biomarker’
They found that regardless of the cholesterol level, changes in cholesterol level were linked to higher risk of dementia. “These results suggest that fluctuating cholesterol, measured annually, may be a new biomarker for identifying people at risk of dementia, providing more information than the actual cholesterol levels measured at a single time point,” study author Zhen Zhou said in a press release.
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