{"id":100212,"date":"2019-12-27T16:23:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T00:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/alzheimers-gene-apoe4-tied-to-tau-protein-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2019-12-27T16:23:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T00:23:43","slug":"alzheimers-gene-apoe4-tied-to-tau-protein-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/alzheimers-gene-apoe4-tied-to-tau-protein-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s Gene APOE4 Tied to Tau Protein in the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alzheimers-gene-apoe4-tied-to-tau-protein-in-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talk with an Alzheimer\u2019s researcher and you\u2019ll likely hear the same lament: Finding a treatment or cure is incredibly challenging because scientists are not even certain what exactly causes the neurological disease in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, researchers speak of a \u201cweb of causation\u201d that can lead to Alzheimer\u2019s. In addition to genetics, scientists look to so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beingpatient.com\/blood-pressure-changes-dementia\/\">lifestyle elements such as blood pressure<\/a> and blood sugar levels. Even the bacteria that live in our mouths are being scrutinized for their potential role in Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>One element that researchers are completely certain about is that people who carry the apolipoprotein E4 gene \u2014 known as APOE4 \u2014 are at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beingpatient.com\/apoe-gene-contribute-alzheimers-scientists-may-found-link\/\">greater risk of developing Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk with an Alzheimer\u2019s researcher and you\u2019ll likely hear the same lament: Finding a treatment or cure is incredibly challenging because scientists are not even certain what exactly causes the neurological disease in the first place. In fact, researchers speak of a \u201cweb of causation\u201d that can lead to Alzheimer\u2019s. In addition to genetics, scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}