Statins and Your Memory: "Forget" About It?
- PMID: 34167640
- PMCID: PMC9090519
- DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2021.04.076
Statins and Your Memory: "Forget" About It?
Keywords: adverse events; cognition; dementia; memory; statins.
Conflict of interest statement
Funding Support and Author Disclosures Dr. Ballantyne is supported by National Institutes of Health grant R01 HL134320. Dr. Ballantyne has received grant and research support (to his institution) from Abbott Diagnostic, Akcea, Amgen, Esperion, Ionis, Novartis, Regeneron, and Roche Diagnostics; and has been a consultant for Abbott Diagnostics, Althera, Amarin, Amgen, Arrowhead, AstraZeneca, Corvidia, Denka Seiken, Esperion, Genentech, Gilead, Matinas BioPharma, New Amsterdam, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Regeneron, Roche Diagnostics, and Sanofi-Synthelabo. Dr. Nambi is a coinvestigator on a provisional patent along with Baylor College of Medicine and Roche on the use of biomarkers to predict heart failure and a site principal investigator for studies sponsored by Amgen and Merck.
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Effect of Statin Therapy on Cognitive Decline and Incident Dementia in Older Adults.J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021 Jun 29;77(25):3145-3156. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2021.04.075. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021. PMID: 34167639 Free PMC article.
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