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"Liao's own research has proved that statins have other biochemical effects than lowering cholesterol. Most important, they reduce the amount of an enzyme called Rho-kinase. That, in turn, dials back damaging inflammation in arteries. When Liao knocks down the level of Rho-kinase in rats, they don't get heart disease. And in new, still unpublished work, he has showed that simply reducing Rho-kinase in certain immune system cells is enough to reduce heart disease in rats."

Don't know if this is the same mechanism, or if there are other anti-inflammatory mechanisms at work as well with statins, but this may be the reason that there have been results pointing to modest protective effects of statins for Alzheimer's Disease.

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aj