This Daily Mall article sounds a very discordant note by indicating that some researchers feel that there may be a link between the widely prescribed and very effective cholesterol fighting drugs called statins and Parkinson’s disease.  If true, this would be a major bombshell in the medical community because statins are now felt to be one the most significant pharma advances of the last century.  Statins lower cholesterol and fight heart disease and strokes.

 

The study found that people with very low LDL (low density lypo-proteins) are three times more likely to develop Parkinson’s.  Statins directly lower LDL (also called “bad” cholesterol.)

 

According to the article, most medical experts feel that it is entirely too early to draw any conclusions from this study and that statins are proven life savers whose should not be discontinued based on this very preliminary study.

 

See our earlier post on the same subject, based on a NYT article here.