Serum lipids and hippocampal volume: the link to Alzheimer's disease?

Wolf, Henrike; Hensel, Anke; Arendt, Thomas; Kivipelto, Miia; Winblad, Bengt; Gertz, Hermann-Josef · Ann Neurol · 2004

cross_sectional · Level IV

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Abstract

The association between hippocampal volume (as a presumed index of Alzheimer's disease pathology) with serum total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol was studied in 86 elderly subjects with a range of cognitive functions. High-density lipoprotein cholesterol, but not low-density lipoprotein cholesterol or total cholesterol, was associated with hippocampal volume and dementia. This is compatible with protective effects of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol on hippocampal atrophy and Alzheimer's disease.

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