There is increasing evidence that high cholesterol and triglycerides are associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's disease.
HRI has made a world-first breakthrough discovery, linking high cholesterol with an increased risk of dementia for the first time.
www.hri.org.au
Its like saying its associated with blue shoes, long hair, having children, book reading, using Microsoft Windows or with listening to jazz. There are tons of possible associations and this junk science should really stop confusing people.
“This is a really exciting discovery because we’ve found the association between cholesterol and dementia. Until now we haven’t known high cholesterol was a risk factor for dementia, but we’ve found a link: “bad” cholesterol aggregates a protein called tau between neurons, which cross the blood-brain barrier and can lead to dementia,” Dr Misra said.
1. There is nothing exciting about associations.
2. A "risk factor" is a vocabulary from the cause-effect world, associations cannot establish risk.
3. There is no "bad" cholesterol.
Cholesterol is a type of fat (or lipid) that plays an important role in the body, helping to make hormones, vitamin D, and substances that aid in digestion. However, too much “bad” cholesterol from a high fat diet or dyslipidaemia, where there’s an imbalance of lipid levels in the blood, can be deadly.
1. Again, there is no "bad" cholesterol.
2. Alarming language -
high fat diet can be deadly.
If there's too much cholesterol in the blood, the cholesterol can form plaques that collect on the artery walls...
1. Cholesterol is not in the blood, cholesterol is in cells. Its carried in the blood by lipoproteins. Lipoproteins are not cholesterol.
2. There is no proof that cholesterol can form plaques on the artery walls.
Etc. Overall quite a weird, unscientific article. Almost every second sentence is some kind of a nonsense or a pure speculation. So many silly images of scientists with test tubes throughout the website that one almost gets suspicious if its a legit organization. However, their "study" was just some computer statistics, nothing more.