{"id":176695,"date":"2023-11-25T00:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T06:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/higher-risk-of-alzheimers-in-women-linked-to-immunity-and-metabolism"},"modified":"2023-11-25T00:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T06:22:22","slug":"higher-risk-of-alzheimers-in-women-linked-to-immunity-and-metabolism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/higher-risk-of-alzheimers-in-women-linked-to-immunity-and-metabolism","title":{"rendered":"Higher Risk of Alzheimer\u2019s in Women Linked to Immunity and Metabolism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/higher-risk-of-alzheimers-in-women-linked-to-immunity-and-metabolism.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cleveland Clinic researchers analyzed genes and brain tissue of patients with Alzheimer\u2019s and found that differences in brain immunometabolism \u2013 the interactions between the immune system and the ways cells create energy \u2013 may contribute to women\u2019s increased risk for the disease and its severity.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/alz.13546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Alzheimer\u2019s and Dementia<\/em><\/a>, offer important insight into developing sex-specific treatment and prevention options for Alzheimer\u2019s disease, the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur immune systems depend on communication between different cell types in our bodies, which are fueled by energy created from unique metabolic processes,\u201d said Justin Lathia, Ph.D., vice chair of the Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences and co-author on the paper. \u201cAs sex influences both the immune system and metabolic process, our study aimed to identify how all of these individual factors influence one another to contribute to Alzheimer\u2019s disease.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland Clinic researchers analyzed genes and brain tissue of patients with Alzheimer\u2019s and found that differences in brain immunometabolism \u2013 the interactions between the immune system and the ways cells create energy \u2013 may contribute to women\u2019s increased risk for the disease and its severity. The findings, published in Alzheimer\u2019s and Dementia, offer important insight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176695","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}