NSAID Alzheimer’s Risk-Reduction Effects May Vary By Age – Study
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The apparent effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease may depend, in part, on a subject's age, Johns Hopkins University researchers suggest in the Sept. 24 issue of Neurology
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NSAID USE LOWERS RELATIVE RISK OF ALZHEIMER's DISEASE among participants of the National Institute on Aging's Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. The study followed 1,686 participants from 1980 to 1995, comparing risks of developing Alzheimer's disease in users of aspirin or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and users of acetaminophen. A report on the study by Walter Stewart, PhD, Johns Hopkins, et al., is published in the March issue of Neurology.