According to Science Daily, dementia 9 thousand 846 participants with a average age of 74. cholesterol Their levels were measured at the beginning of the study and once for three years.
Following the last examination, the participants who followed an average of 5.5 years were also subjected to tests where memory skills were measured every year.
Researchers divided the participants into 4 groups according to the amount of change between the first and last cholesterol results.
As a result of the study, the risk of diagnosis of dementia to the people in the group where cholesterol change was most prominent was 60 percent higher than the least change.
The findings of the research were published in the magazine “Neurology”.