Follow-up to that report about statins perhaps lowering
the risk of dementia: in yet another study presented at the European Society of
Cardiology meeting in Amsterdam) taking statins was associated with a lower risk
of cataracts, especially when those drugs were being taken by younger people.
In other words, statins may be able to prevent the damage
that leads to cataracts rather than limit the damage once it’s started.
It wasn’t a huge effect that the statins had in this
study: something on the order of a 20 % lower risk.
But still, nice to believe that there are even other
benefits that those drugs can lead to, albeit small ones, given that there are
so many millions of people who take them.
