India, Sept. 21 -- Can high cholesterol increase your chances of developing dementia? High cholesterol was always viewed as a heart-health problem. Recently, it has also been increasingly associated with a potential long-term concern for our brain health.

However, according to Dr Sachin Adukia, senior consultant, MBBS, MD (general medicine), DNB (neurology), it would be an oversimplification to say that having high cholesterol in your 30s could directly cause dementia.

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Sachin explained that the strongest evidence for a correlation between high cholesterol and dementia currently comes from studies that have examined cholesterol levels in midlife and followed people over many years.

He cited a landma...