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Moneesha - I take Tricor for high triglycerides.  Meds for it predates my 
1996 PD diagnosis.
Ray
Rayilyn Brown
Board Member AZNPF
Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation
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From: "Moneesha Sharma" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:54 AM
Subject: Re: High Cholesterol PD Link


> Ray,
> This is very interesting indeed.  My husband, Prem, who is now 62 and was
> diagnosed with PD at the age of 56, though he probably had the symptoms 
> for
> two years before that, has had high cholesterol ever since we started
> regular tests when he was in his late 30s.  Even now he is on medication 
> for
> it.
> Moneesha
> Calcutta, India
>
> 2008/6/10 rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> I read an article on a correlation between high cholesterol and 
>> Parkinson's
>> disease.  Now we all know that high cholesterol is connected with 
>> increased
>> heart disease, but I don't think any of us (maybe I'm being a little to
>> presumptuous here) would have guessed that there's a conncection between
>> high cholesterol and Parkinson's.
>> Reuters reports that researchers examined this relationship in a  cohort 
>> of
>> 24,773 Finnish men and  26,153 women between the ages of 25 and 74 years. 
>> A
>> total of 321 men and 304 women developed Parkinson's disease during an
>> average follow-up of 18 years.
>> Compared to people with the lowest cholesterol, those with the highest 
>> had
>> an 86 percent likelihood of developing Parkinson's disease.
>> This increased risk applied to people 24 to 54 years of age.  "However, 
>> no
>> association was found among subjects aged 55 years or older at baseline.
>> I'm not making any assumptions here but I would really like to see some
>> deeper studies about this study.  We'll let you know if anything else
>> develops.
>>
>> source unknown
>>
>> Rayilyn Brown
>> Board Member AZNPF
>> Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation
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