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 [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Moneesha Sharma" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 >> [log in to unmask] >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto: >> [log in to unmask] >> In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn