{"id":172472,"date":"2023-09-20T23:25:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T04:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/traumatic-brain-injury-under-recognized-as-a-risk-factor-for-cardiovascular-disease-says-new-study"},"modified":"2023-09-20T23:25:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T04:25:25","slug":"traumatic-brain-injury-under-recognized-as-a-risk-factor-for-cardiovascular-disease-says-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/traumatic-brain-injury-under-recognized-as-a-risk-factor-for-cardiovascular-disease-says-new-study","title":{"rendered":"Traumatic brain injury under-recognized as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, says new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/traumatic-brain-injury-under-recognized-as-a-risk-factor-for-cardiovascular-disease-says-new-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of long-term disability and premature death, especially among military personnel and those playing contact sports. Substantial research has examined acute and chronic neurological consequences of TBI; however, non-neurological conditions associated with TBI are understudied.<\/p>\n<p>A new review paper by investigators from Mass General Brigham presents key findings on long-term associations between TBI and cardiovascular disease, highlighting that nervous system dysfunction, neuroinflammation, changes in the brain-gut connection, and post-injury comorbidities may elevate risk of both cardiovascular and cognitive dysfunction in TBI survivors compared to the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/general+population\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">general population<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The review, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/laneur\/article\/PIIS1474-4422(23)00241-7\/fulltext\">The <i>Lancet Neurology<\/i><\/a>, emphasizes the need for future cardiovascular research, surveillance and intervention in TBI survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of long-term disability and premature death, especially among military personnel and those playing contact sports. Substantial research has examined acute and chronic neurological consequences of TBI; however, non-neurological conditions associated with TBI are understudied. A new review paper by investigators from Mass General Brigham presents key findings [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172472","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=172472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}