Matteo Spinedi, Christopher Clark, Leonardo Zullo, Anja Kerksiek, Giorgio Pistis, Enrique Castelao, Armin von Gunten, Martin Preisig, Dieter Lütjohann, Julius Popp
Neurodegenerative, vascular, and dementia diseases are linked to dysregulations in cholesterol metabolism. Dietary plant sterols, or phytosterols, may interfere to neurodegeneration and cognitive decline, and have cholesterol-lowering, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant qualities. Here, we investigated the potential associations between circulating cholesterol precursors and metabolites, triglycerides, and phytosterols with cognitive decline in older people by performing multivariate analysis on 246 participants engaged in a population-based prospective study...
February 16, 2024: IScience