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Statin Therapy and Risk of Acute Memory

Both statin and nonstatin lipid-lowering drugs were strongly associated with acute memory loss in the first 30 days following exposure in users compared with nonusers but not when compared with each other.

All lipid-lowering drugs cause acute memory loss regardless of drug class or the association is the result of detection bias rather than a causal association.

See more news: JAMA Intern Med. Published online June 08, 2015. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.2092