High cholesterol increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease

... chromosome were associated with the damaging protein amyloid, which occurs between nerve cells - and people with Alzheimer's have amyloid plaques in their brains. High cholesterol results in defective cells with the wrong number of chromosomes - and ...

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