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   Statins May Affect Memory   
   Are cholesterol-lowering drugs causing dementialike symptoms in some patients?   
   By Melinda Wenner Moyer   
      
      
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   One day in 1999 former NASA astronaut Duane Graveline, then 68 years old,   
   returned home from his morning walk in Merritt Island, Fla., and could not   
   remember where he was. His wife stepped outside, and he greeted her as a   
   stranger. When Graveline's    
   memory returned some six hours later in the hospital, he racked his brain to   
   figure out what might have caused this terrifying bout of amnesia. Only one   
   thing came readily to mind: he had recently started taking the statin drug   
   Lipitor.   
   Cholesterol-lowering statins such as Lipitor, Crestor and Zocor are the most   
   widely prescribed medications in the world, and they are credited with saving   
   the lives of many heart disease patients. But recently a small number of users   
   have voiced concerns    
   that the drugs elicit unexpected cognitive side effects, such as memory loss,   
   fuzzy thinking and learning difficulties. Hundreds of people have registered   
   complaints with MedWatch, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's adverse drug   
   reaction database,    
   but few studies have been done and the results are inconclusive. Nevertheless,   
   many experts are starting to believe that a small percentage of the population   
   is at risk, and they are calling for increased public awareness of the   
   possible cognitive side    
   effects of statins--symptoms that may be misdiagnosed as dementia in the aging   
   patients who take them. In 2012, the fda expanded the warning labels on all   
   statins to include "notable, but ill-defined memory loss or impairment."   
      
      
   http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/statins-may-affect-mem   
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