Early statin treatment may help children with Fragile X

(University of Edinburgh) Children with an inherited form of intellectual disability and autism could be helped by a medicine commonly used to lower cholesterol, if used early in life, research from the University of Edinburgh suggests. The drug -- called lovastatin -- corrected learning and memory problems in rats with a form of Fragile X Syndrome, tests revealed.

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