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baltimore <u+2014> new findings from a large national claims database show the use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to be associated with an increased risk for parkinson<u+2019>s disease (pd), contrary to previous research suggesting the drugs have a protective effect for pd. 




<u+201c>we identified 20,000 parkinson<u+2019>s disease patients and looked at whether using statins was associated with a higher or lower risk, and we found people using statins have a higher risk of the disease, so this is the opposite of what has been hypothesized,<u+201d> senior author xuemei huang, md, phd, vice chair for research at penn state college of medicine, hershey, pennsylvania, told medscape medical news . 




while high cholesterol has been shown to have a protective effect on the risk for pd, the role of statin use has been the subject of debate. published on october 31, 2016
study: statin cholesterol-lowering drug use linked to increase in parkinson<u+2019>s disease
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