{"id":124203,"date":"2021-06-24T07:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T14:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/inflammatory-proteins-may-slow-cognitive-decline-in-aging-adults"},"modified":"2021-06-24T07:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T14:22:43","slug":"inflammatory-proteins-may-slow-cognitive-decline-in-aging-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/inflammatory-proteins-may-slow-cognitive-decline-in-aging-adults","title":{"rendered":"Inflammatory Proteins May Slow Cognitive Decline in Aging Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inflammatory-proteins-may-slow-cognitive-decline-in-aging-adults2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These results suggest that IL-12 and IFN-\u03b3 could one day be measured along with other biomarkers to predict future brain health in cognitively normal people\u2013a tool that doesn\u2019t yet exist in medicine.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Summary: <\/em><\/strong><em>Higher levels of two cytokines were associated with slower cognitive decline in aging adults, a new study reports.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: <\/em><\/strong><em>Mass General<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research has previously linked inflammation to Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD), yet scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Harvard Aging Brain Study (HABS) have made a surprising discovery about that relationship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a new study published in <em>Alzheimer\u2019s &amp; Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer\u2019s Association<\/em>, they report that elevated levels of two chemical mediators of inflammation, known as cytokines, are associated with slower cognitive decline in aging adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These results suggest that IL-12 and IFN-\u03b3 could one day be measured along with other biomarkers to predict future brain health in cognitively normal people\u2013a tool that doesn\u2019t yet exist in medicine. Summary: Higher levels of two cytokines were associated with slower cognitive decline in aging adults, a new study reports. Source: Mass General Research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124203","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}