{"id":111251,"date":"2020-08-13T09:25:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/putting-on-weight-slows-blood-flow-to-the-brain-increasing-alzheimers-risk"},"modified":"2020-08-13T09:25:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T16:25:57","slug":"putting-on-weight-slows-blood-flow-to-the-brain-increasing-alzheimers-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/putting-on-weight-slows-blood-flow-to-the-brain-increasing-alzheimers-risk","title":{"rendered":"Putting on weight slows blood flow to the brain, increasing Alzheimer\u2019s risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/putting-on-weight-slows-blood-flow-to-the-brain-increasing-alzheimers-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>COSTA MESA, Calif. <\/b>\u2013 Health experts say around half of American adults are overweight or obese. While excessive body weight is linked to a number of serious health conditions, including diabetes and heart disease, a new study reveals it can also reduce blood flow to the brain. Researchers warn this can put overweight individuals at great risk for Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>The study examines brain blood flow in 17,721 adults between 18 and 94. To do this, researchers use a brain imaging technique known as single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).<\/p>\n<p>SPECT is a technique in which doctors inject a radioactive tracer into a patient\u2019s blood and then use a special camera to look at the flow of blood. Participants were then split into five categories: underweight, normal weight, <a href=\"https:\/\/studyfinds.org\/tag\/overweight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overweight<\/a>, obese, and morbidly obese \u2014 to examine blood flow in each of their brains. The brain scan data reveals lower blood flow across virtually all brain regions as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studyfinds.org\/study-finds-exercise-not-key-to-losing-weight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">body weight increases.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COSTA MESA, Calif. \u2013 Health experts say around half of American adults are overweight or obese. While excessive body weight is linked to a number of serious health conditions, including diabetes and heart disease, a new study reveals it can also reduce blood flow to the brain. Researchers warn this can put overweight individuals at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111251","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}