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Research Indicates Possible Link

Washington, D.C.-Results from a new study seem to indicate a possible link between the amount of low levels of HDL Cholesterol and memory loss.

Officials are not ready to declare it as fact, but the results of the study performed in Britain found that there is a 27 percent increase loss of memory for patients that were 55 years or older that had the least levels of HDL Cholesterol, or “good Cholesterol,” in their systems.

The study followed thousands of different British civil servants for several decades, and it found a link between those patients that had the least amount of HDL cholesterol and those that showed definite signs of memory loss.

The study was funded in part by the United States Government and was published on July 1, 2008 in the issue of Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.

HDL Cholesterol levels were measured in 3,673 patients and short-term verbal memory tests were also administered.

Nearly one quarter of the participants were women, and the test ran for several decades.

Testing between 1995 and 1997 and again between 2002 and 2004 were contrasted in the published findings.