{"id":210047,"date":"2025-03-29T17:11:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T22:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/anti-amyloid-drug-shows-signs-of-preventing-alzheimers-dementia"},"modified":"2025-03-29T17:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T22:11:45","slug":"anti-amyloid-drug-shows-signs-of-preventing-alzheimers-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/anti-amyloid-drug-shows-signs-of-preventing-alzheimers-dementia","title":{"rendered":"Anti-amyloid drug shows signs of preventing Alzheimer\u2019s dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/anti-amyloid-drug-shows-signs-of-preventing-alzheimers-dementia2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An experimental drug appears to reduce the risk of Alzheimer\u2019s-related dementia in people destined to develop the disease in their 30s, 40s or 50s, according to the results of a study led by the Knight Family Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network-Trials Unit (DIAN-TU), which is based at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>The findings suggest\u2014for the first time in a clinical trial\u2014that early treatment to remove amyloid plaques from the brain many years before symptoms arise can delay the onset of Alzheimer\u2019s dementia.<\/p>\n<p>The study is published in The Lancet Neurology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experimental drug appears to reduce the risk of Alzheimer\u2019s-related dementia in people destined to develop the disease in their 30s, 40s or 50s, according to the results of a study led by the Knight Family Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network-Trials Unit (DIAN-TU), which is based at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210047","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\/210047","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}