{"id":152386,"date":"2022-12-10T11:24:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T17:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/this-vitamin-can-reduce-your-odds-of-dementia"},"modified":"2022-12-10T11:24:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T17:24:02","slug":"this-vitamin-can-reduce-your-odds-of-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/this-vitamin-can-reduce-your-odds-of-dementia","title":{"rendered":"This Vitamin Can Reduce Your Odds Of Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-vitamin-can-reduce-your-odds-of-dementia2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new study published by <em>Alzheimer\u2019s &amp; Dementia<\/em>, scientists from Rush University and Tufts University were the first to compare <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/signs-of-cognitive-decline\" class=\"\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/signs-of-cognitive-decline\">cognitive decline factors<\/a> to vitamin D concentrations not only in the blood, but <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/alz.12836\" class=\"\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/alz.12836\">in the brain<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers analyzed participants of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushu.rush.edu\/research\/departmental-research\/memory-and-aging-project\" class=\"\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.rushu.rush.edu\/research\/departmental-research\/memory-and-aging-project\">Rush Memory and Aging Project<\/a> (MAP)\u2014an ongoing longitudinal study that aims to identify risk factors for Alzheimer\u2019s disease and other cognitive decline disorders\u2014before and after death to see how their vitamin D levels<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/low-vitamin-d-levels-tied-to-alzheimers-and-dementia\" class=\"\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/low-vitamin-d-levels-tied-to-alzheimers-and-dementia\"> impacted cognitive function<\/a> in their later years.<\/p>\n<p>Free of known dementia at the time of enrollment, all MAP participants agreed to participate in annual evaluations and organ donation when they died. In this study, the average age of participants was 92 at the time of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study published by Alzheimer\u2019s &amp; Dementia, scientists from Rush University and Tufts University were the first to compare cognitive decline factors to vitamin D concentrations not only in the blood, but in the brain as well. Researchers analyzed participants of the Rush Memory and Aging Project (MAP)\u2014an ongoing longitudinal study that aims [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152386","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\/152386","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}