{"id":137368,"date":"2022-03-26T00:04:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T07:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/boston-researchers-find-vicious-cycle-between-daytime-napping-and-alzheimers-dementia"},"modified":"2022-03-26T00:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T07:04:31","slug":"boston-researchers-find-vicious-cycle-between-daytime-napping-and-alzheimers-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/boston-researchers-find-vicious-cycle-between-daytime-napping-and-alzheimers-dementia","title":{"rendered":"Boston researchers find \u2018vicious cycle\u2019 between daytime napping and Alzheimer\u2019s dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/boston-researchers-find-vicious-cycle-between-daytime-napping-and-alzheimers-dementia2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boston medical researchers in a new groundbreaking study have discovered a \u201cvicious cycle\u201d between daytime napping and Alzheimer\u2019s dementia.<\/p>\n<p>The Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital researchers found a link between the two: Excessive daytime napping predicted an increased future risk of Alzheimer\u2019s dementia, and a diagnosis of Alzheimer\u2019s dementia sped up the increase in daytime napping during aging.<\/p>\n<p>Daytime napping is common among older adults, but researchers have not known the relationship between daytime napping and cognitive aging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston medical researchers in a new groundbreaking study have discovered a \u201cvicious cycle\u201d between daytime napping and Alzheimer\u2019s dementia. The Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital researchers found a link between the two: Excessive daytime napping predicted an increased future risk of Alzheimer\u2019s dementia, and a diagnosis of Alzheimer\u2019s dementia sped up the increase in daytime napping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137368","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=137368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}