Professor Katherine Samaras, from the Garvan Institute, says a study into statins should provide consumers 'reassurance' about their statin prescriptionFears that statins can cause memory loss are unfounded, a major study suggests. Doctors said the findings should reassure patients using statins that it is safe to take them. The Australian researchers examined changes in the memory and brain function of 1,037 individuals aged 70 to 90 over six years. The Garvan Institute (pictured) study examined 1,037 people aged between 70 and 90, who had been using a statin prescription for nine years. And the researchers remarkably found 'no results to support that cholesterol-lowering statins cause memory impairment', according Ms Samaras‘Many factors can contribute to the cognitive symptoms that isolated case reports describe.

Source: Daily Mail November 19, 2019 00:42 UTC