{"id":174269,"date":"2023-10-15T23:24:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T04:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/alzheimers-is-linked-to-stress-and-depression-and-we-may-know-why"},"modified":"2023-10-15T23:24:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T04:24:43","slug":"alzheimers-is-linked-to-stress-and-depression-and-we-may-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/alzheimers-is-linked-to-stress-and-depression-and-we-may-know-why","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s Is Linked to Stress And Depression, And We May Know Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alzheimers-is-linked-to-stress-and-depression-and-we-may-know-why2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dementia affects more than 55 million people around the world.<\/p>\n<p>A number of factors can increase a person\u2019s risk of developing dementia, including high blood pressure, poor sleep, and physical inactivity.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, keeping cognitively, physically, and socially active, and limiting alcohol consumption, can reduce the risk.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a large Swedish study observed that chronic stress and depression were linked to a higher risk of developing Alzheimer\u2019s disease, the most common form of dementia. The researchers found people with a history of both chronic stress and depression had an even greater risk of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, around 280 million people have depression, while roughly 300 million\u2026 More.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dementia affects more than 55 million people around the world. A number of factors can increase a person\u2019s risk of developing dementia, including high blood pressure, poor sleep, and physical inactivity. Meanwhile, keeping cognitively, physically, and socially active, and limiting alcohol consumption, can reduce the risk. Recently, a large Swedish study observed that chronic stress [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174269","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\/174269","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}