{"id":202131,"date":"2024-12-22T02:28:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/up-to-13-of-dementia-cases-could-be-a-misdiagnosed-treatable-condition"},"modified":"2024-12-22T02:28:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:28:15","slug":"up-to-13-of-dementia-cases-could-be-a-misdiagnosed-treatable-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/up-to-13-of-dementia-cases-could-be-a-misdiagnosed-treatable-condition","title":{"rendered":"Up to 13% of Dementia Cases Could Be a Misdiagnosed Treatable Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/up-to-13-of-dementia-cases-could-be-a-misdiagnosed-treatable-condition3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/your-blood-could-be-aging-your-brain-increasing-risk-of-dementia\">global population ages<\/a>, more of us face frightening cognitive decline, personally or in our loved ones. There are over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/dementia\">10 million new cases<\/a> of dementia globally each year.<\/p>\n<p>But a study published this year suggests up to 13 percent of people diagnosed with dementia in the US may have a misdiagnosis and are instead left struggling with a condition that can be treated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealth care providers [must be] made aware of this potential overlap between dementia and hepatic encephalopathy, which is treatable,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vcuhealth.org\/news\/13-percent-of-patients-with-dementia-may-instead-have-cognitive-decline-from-cirrhosis\">said<\/a> Virginia Commonwealth University hepatologist Jasmohan Bajaj in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the global population ages, more of us face frightening cognitive decline, personally or in our loved ones. There are over 10 million new cases of dementia globally each year. But a study published this year suggests up to 13 percent of people diagnosed with dementia in the US may have a misdiagnosis and are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202131","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=202131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}