{"id":200610,"date":"2024-12-02T07:26:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T13:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/hidden-fat-may-predict-alzheimers-20-years-ahead-of-symptoms"},"modified":"2024-12-02T07:26:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T13:26:43","slug":"hidden-fat-may-predict-alzheimers-20-years-ahead-of-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/hidden-fat-may-predict-alzheimers-20-years-ahead-of-symptoms","title":{"rendered":"Hidden fat may predict Alzheimer\u2019s 20 years ahead of symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hidden-fat-may-predict-alzheimers-20-years-ahead-of-symptoms3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have linked a specific type of body fat to the abnormal proteins in the brain that are hallmarks of Alzheimer\u2019s disease up to 20 years before the earliest symptoms of dementia appear, according to a study being presented at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsna.org\/annual-meeting\" target=\"_blank\">annual meeting<\/a> of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).<\/p>\n<p>The researchers emphasize that lifestyle modifications targeted at reducing this fat could influence the development of Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis crucial result was discovered because we investigated Alzheimer\u2019s disease pathology as early as midlife\u2014in the 40s and 50s\u2014when the disease pathology is at its earliest stages, and potential modifications like weight loss and reducing visceral fat are more effective as a means of preventing or delaying the onset of the disease,\u201d said lead study author Mahsa Dolatshahi, M.D., M.P.H., post-doctoral research associate at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have linked a specific type of body fat to the abnormal proteins in the brain that are hallmarks of Alzheimer\u2019s disease up to 20 years before the earliest symptoms of dementia appear, according to a study being presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). The researchers emphasize that [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200610","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\/200610","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=200610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}