{"id":144676,"date":"2022-08-23T23:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T04:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/decrease-your-risk-of-cognitive-decline-and-dementia-avoid-these-8-controllable-risk-factors"},"modified":"2022-08-23T23:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T04:22:54","slug":"decrease-your-risk-of-cognitive-decline-and-dementia-avoid-these-8-controllable-risk-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/decrease-your-risk-of-cognitive-decline-and-dementia-avoid-these-8-controllable-risk-factors","title":{"rendered":"Decrease Your Risk of Cognitive Decline and Dementia \u2014 Avoid These 8 Controllable Risk Factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/decrease-your-risk-of-cognitive-decline-and-dementia-avoid-these-8-controllable-risk-factors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to recent Baycrest research, adults without dementia risk factors like smoking, diabetes, or hearing loss had brain health comparable to that of those who are 10 to 20 years younger than them. According to the research, only one dementia risk factor can age a person\u2019s cognition by up to three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur results suggest lifestyle factors may be more important than age in determining someone\u2019s level of cognitive functioning. This is great news since there\u2019s a lot you can do to modify these factors, such as managing diabetes, addressing hearing loss, and getting the support you need to quit smoking,\u201d says Dr. Annalise LaPlume, Postdoctoral Fellow at Baycrest\u2019s Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and the study\u2019s lead author.<\/p>\n<p>The research is one of the first to look at lifestyle risk factors for dementia across the entire lifespan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to recent Baycrest research, adults without dementia risk factors like smoking, diabetes, or hearing loss had brain health comparable to that of those who are 10 to 20 years younger than them. According to the research, only one dementia risk factor can age a person\u2019s cognition by up to three years. \u201cOur results suggest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144676","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\/144676","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}