{"id":209948,"date":"2025-03-28T13:06:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/blood-test-shows-promise-for-early-detection-of-dementia"},"modified":"2025-03-28T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:06:35","slug":"blood-test-shows-promise-for-early-detection-of-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/blood-test-shows-promise-for-early-detection-of-dementia","title":{"rendered":"Blood test shows promise for early detection of dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blood-test-shows-promise-for-early-detection-of-dementia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research findings focus on people with a sleep disorder, but could have broader implications. For people with a certain sleep disorder, a simple blood test could help predict the development of dementia years before symptoms appear, a new study indicates.<\/p>\n<p>Idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder (iRBD) causes people to physically act out their dreams while sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>The disorder is also associated with a very high risk of Parkinson\u2019s disease and a related condition called Dementia with Lewy Bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research findings focus on people with a sleep disorder, but could have broader implications. For people with a certain sleep disorder, a simple blood test could help predict the development of dementia years before symptoms appear, a new study indicates. Idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder (iRBD) causes people to physically act out their dreams while [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209948","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\/209948","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=209948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}