Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Scientists in Japan have found people with high cholesterol levels may have a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
Researchers at Kyushu University studied brain samples from 147 people, and compared them with cholesterol measurements that were taken 10-15 years before they died. They found those with higher cholesterol levels were more likely to have a protein called amyloid, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's, in their brains when they died.
