What advice would you give to patients who are concerned about statin use and its controversies around brain health and dementia risk, based on previous studies?

I cannot think of any class of medications in cardiology that has undergone such scrutiny and investigation to try to find a reason not to take such an effective medication. From the earliest days of its use, one concern after another has arisen; from muscle deterioration, to increasing the risk of ...

I tell patients that I wrote one of the earliest case reports suggesting that statins affect cognitive function (Parker et al., Pharmacotherapy 2012), that we had an NIH grant to explore further this possibility (Taylor et al., PMID 29447778), and that we examined mental functioning as part of a rev...