{"id":190194,"date":"2024-05-27T10:22:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/can-this-thumb-test-tell-if-you-are-at-increased-risk-of-a-hidden-aortic-aneurysm"},"modified":"2024-05-27T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T15:22:25","slug":"can-this-thumb-test-tell-if-you-are-at-increased-risk-of-a-hidden-aortic-aneurysm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/can-this-thumb-test-tell-if-you-are-at-increased-risk-of-a-hidden-aortic-aneurysm","title":{"rendered":"Can this Thumb Test tell if you are at increased Risk of a Hidden Aortic Aneurysm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-this-thumb-test-tell-if-you-are-at-increased-risk-of-a-hidden-aortic-aneurysm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the parts of our bodies share an inherent connectivity. This goes much further than \u201cthe foot bone\u2019s connected to the \u2026 leg bone.\u201d For instance, both hands and feet are connected to a constantly flowing bloodstream, and a nerve network that makes their muscles kick.<\/p>\n<p>So what about the connection recently proposed by some news outlets regarding a simple test involving your palm and thumb? Could it really help diagnose a silent, yet potentially serious problem?<\/p>\n<p>An aneurysm is what we\u2019re referring to here. This is a ballooned segment of an artery\u2014the vessels that supply oxygenated blood to your body tissues. Aneurysms may cause no problems, but if they grow larger, they can weaken, burst and bleed. This is bad enough in most arteries, but imagine if the artery involved were the biggest in your body?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the parts of our bodies share an inherent connectivity. This goes much further than \u201cthe foot bone\u2019s connected to the \u2026 leg bone.\u201d For instance, both hands and feet are connected to a constantly flowing bloodstream, and a nerve network that makes their muscles kick. So what about the connection recently proposed by some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190194","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}