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QuickCheck: Does high cholesterol cause dementia?
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PETALING JAYA: From cleaning their water storage tanks to rescheduling medical appointments, business owners and households are preparing for a scheduled water cut in Klang Valley tomorrow.

FOR years people have been saying that there was a clear link between your cholesterol levels and your chances of developing later in life. Alternatively, some have even said that it's the type of cholesterol that matters, not just the how much you have in your blood.

There is however, a lot of correlation between the two. In science, a correlation is when there is a notable relationship between two or more phenomena that may or may not be causal in nature. The participants had all undergone the same health behaviour survey in the early 2000s as part of the same health plan they were signed up to.Over the next 17 years, researchers found that people with the highest HDL cholesterol levels had a 15% higher dementia risk as compared to those with mid-range levels.

The researchers concluded that while there seemed to be a link, the study only showed that there was an association and did not prove that high or low HDL cholesterol levels directly caused dementia. A meta analysis conducted in 2010 saw that seniors who exercised were less likely to develop dementia as compared to their more sedentary counterparts.

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