{"id":199738,"date":"2024-11-19T07:23:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/heres-how-your-cholesterol-level-shapes-your-dementia-risk"},"modified":"2024-11-19T07:23:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:23:56","slug":"heres-how-your-cholesterol-level-shapes-your-dementia-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/heres-how-your-cholesterol-level-shapes-your-dementia-risk","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how your cholesterol level shapes your dementia risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-how-your-cholesterol-level-shapes-your-dementia-risk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered your cholesterol levels could be significantly linked to your risk of developing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/the-human-body\/dementia\/\">dementia<\/a>. And it\u2019s not just high cholesterol that matters: fluctuating levels over several years <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.heart.org\/news\/unexplained-changes-in-cholesterol-may-help-identify-older-adults-at-risk-for-dementia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">could increase your chances of the disease by 60 per cent<\/a>, suggests a new study of 10,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>The research also suggests that, even if you don\u2019t develop dementia, a large cholesterol variability \u2013 swinging from high to low levels \u2013 is linked to an increased risk of general cognitive decline by 23 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered your cholesterol levels could be significantly linked to your risk of developing dementia. And it\u2019s not just high cholesterol that matters: fluctuating levels over several years could increase your chances of the disease by 60 per cent, suggests a new study of 10,000 people. The research also suggests that, even if you [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199738","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\/199738","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}