{"id":134200,"date":"2022-01-17T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/tackling-ageing-may-be-best-way-to-prevent-multiple-chronic-conditions-from-developing-in-older-people"},"modified":"2022-01-17T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T03:22:19","slug":"tackling-ageing-may-be-best-way-to-prevent-multiple-chronic-conditions-from-developing-in-older-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/tackling-ageing-may-be-best-way-to-prevent-multiple-chronic-conditions-from-developing-in-older-people","title":{"rendered":"Tackling ageing may be best way to prevent multiple chronic conditions from developing in older people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tackling-ageing-may-be-best-way-to-prevent-multiple-chronic-conditions-from-developing-in-older-people2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although multimorbidity differs for each person, we know that patients tend to suffer from the same groups of diseases \u2014 known as \u201cclusters\u201d. This suggests that each cluster may share a common underlying cause. For example, a person with multimorbidity may suffer from heart problems (such as heart disease and high blood pressure) and diabetes, which may all stem from the same cause \u2014 such as obesity.<\/p>\n<p>Identifying and treating the cause of a patient\u2019s disease clusters would allow us to more effectively combat several \u2014 or even all \u2014 of the diseases a patient has using a single treatment. This would both reduce the number of medical appointments a person needs to attend and the number of medications they may need to take.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ageing is the single biggest risk factor for developing multimorbidity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although multimorbidity differs for each person, we know that patients tend to suffer from the same groups of diseases \u2014 known as \u201cclusters\u201d. This suggests that each cluster may share a common underlying cause. For example, a person with multimorbidity may suffer from heart problems (such as heart disease and high blood pressure) and diabetes, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134200","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}