{"id":202995,"date":"2025-01-03T00:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T06:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/chinese-scientists-find-common-blood-pressure-drug-could-cure-rare-brain-tumour"},"modified":"2025-01-03T00:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T06:24:22","slug":"chinese-scientists-find-common-blood-pressure-drug-could-cure-rare-brain-tumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/chinese-scientists-find-common-blood-pressure-drug-could-cure-rare-brain-tumour","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists find common blood pressure drug could cure rare brain tumour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-scientists-find-common-blood-pressure-drug-could-cure-rare-brain-tumour2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese scientists have found a common <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/health\/high-bp-tablets-blood-pressure-measure-symptoms-b2606664.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> hypertension drug<\/a> could prove potent in treating a rare but highly invasive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/topic\/brain-tumour\" rel=\"nofollow\"> brain tumour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although craniopharyngioma is a benign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/topic\/tumour\" rel=\"nofollow\"> tumour<\/a>, it can cause <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/life-style\/health-and-families\/brain-tumour-symptoms-sleep-apnoea-b2150650.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> complications<\/a> due to its growth along the critical nerve structures of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/topic\/brain\" rel=\"nofollow\"> brain<\/a> close to the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland.<\/p>\n<p>Given its location, the tumour can cause <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/life-style\/health-and-families\/women-hormones-health-problems-periods-b1904636.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> hormone dysfunction<\/a> and metabolic disorders, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/topic\/obesity\" rel=\"nofollow\"> obesity<\/a>, diabetes and hypothyroidism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese scientists have found a common hypertension drug could prove potent in treating a rare but highly invasive brain tumour. Although craniopharyngioma is a benign tumour, it can cause complications due to its growth along the critical nerve structures of the brain close to the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland. Given its location, the tumour [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202995","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\/202995","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}