{"id":163393,"date":"2023-05-05T15:25:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T20:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/simple-tests-predict-dementia-risk-in-older-women-years-in-advance"},"modified":"2023-05-05T15:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T20:25:17","slug":"simple-tests-predict-dementia-risk-in-older-women-years-in-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/simple-tests-predict-dementia-risk-in-older-women-years-in-advance","title":{"rendered":"Simple Tests Predict Dementia Risk in Older Women Years in Advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simple-tests-predict-dementia-risk-in-older-women-years-in-advance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dementia is a brain disease that affects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/dementia\">around 55 million people worldwide<\/a> and is characterized by the loss of cognitive functions like memory and reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>The classic, early cognitive symptoms of dementia \u2013 like misplacing valuable objects, forgetting names, and finding planning difficult \u2013 can creep up slowly over time.<\/p>\n<p>But there are other, more noticeable changes to the body that correlate with dementia risk and can be picked up over a decade before diagnosis. Recent research has found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cant-hear-people-when-theres-noise-around-a-study-links-this-to-dementia-risk\">hearing difficulties<\/a> may be a warning sign of dementia that arises years before other symptoms of the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dementia is a brain disease that affects around 55 million people worldwide and is characterized by the loss of cognitive functions like memory and reasoning. The classic, early cognitive symptoms of dementia \u2013 like misplacing valuable objects, forgetting names, and finding planning difficult \u2013 can creep up slowly over time. But there are other, more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163393","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=163393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}