The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a randomized blinded trial to answer this question statins are generic I don't know of any Pharma company that's going to spend a billion dollars to prove or disprove what statin do to a cognitive functions of the brain so it's not going to happen
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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will there ever be a study done that tests this question specifically as the primary outcome in other words where the study is powered to ask the question does the use of EST Statin increase decrease or have no effect on the risk of Alzheimer's disease and Dementia or or will we instead be forced to rely on these secondary outcomes which are always subject to some potential misinterpretation
all statins are generic I don't know of any Pharma company that's going to spend a billion dollars to prove or disprove what STS due to a cognitive functions of the brain so it's not going to happen