{"id":147277,"date":"2022-09-30T13:24:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T18:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/viral-infections-including-covid-are-among-the-important-causes-of-dementia-one-more-reason-to-consider-vaccination"},"modified":"2022-09-30T13:24:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T18:24:55","slug":"viral-infections-including-covid-are-among-the-important-causes-of-dementia-one-more-reason-to-consider-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/viral-infections-including-covid-are-among-the-important-causes-of-dementia-one-more-reason-to-consider-vaccination","title":{"rendered":"Viral infections including COVID are among the important causes of dementia. One more reason to consider vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/viral-infections-including-covid-are-among-the-important-causes-of-dementia-one-more-reason-to-consider-vaccination2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With more of us living into old age than at any other time, dementia is increasing steadily worldwide, with major individual, family, societal and economic consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Treatment remains largely ineffective and aspects of the underlying pathophysiology are still unclear. But there is good evidence that <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/neurodegenerative+diseases\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neurodegenerative diseases <\/a>\u2014and their manifestation as dementia\u2014are not an inevitable consequence of aging.<\/p>\n<p>Many <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/pubhealthexpert\/dementia-update-on-causes-and-prevention-including-the-role-of-covid-19\/\">causes of dementia<\/a>, including viral infections, are preventable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more of us living into old age than at any other time, dementia is increasing steadily worldwide, with major individual, family, societal and economic consequences. Treatment remains largely ineffective and aspects of the underlying pathophysiology are still unclear. But there is good evidence that neurodegenerative diseases \u2014and their manifestation as dementia\u2014are not an inevitable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147277","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\/147277","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}