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Low Levels of "Good" Cholesterol Linked to Dementia
 (New York, Reuters Health, 6/11/02)

According to Dr. Anton J. M. de Craen of Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, a lack of High Density Lipoprotein (HDL), the "good" cholesterol, may increase the risk of dementia in the elderly. He studied 561 eighty-five-year-olds and found that those with low HDL levels had a greater risk of mental impairment and dementia than the other study participants

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