{"id":212063,"date":"2025-04-22T02:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T07:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/alzheimers-risk-factors-that-can-impact-cognition-in-adults-as-young-as-24-revealed"},"modified":"2025-04-22T02:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T07:16:52","slug":"alzheimers-risk-factors-that-can-impact-cognition-in-adults-as-young-as-24-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/alzheimers-risk-factors-that-can-impact-cognition-in-adults-as-young-as-24-revealed","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s risk factors that can impact cognition in adults as young as 24 revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alzheimers-risk-factors-that-can-impact-cognition-in-adults-as-young-as-24-revealed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia Butler Aging Center suggests that risk factors and biomarkers related to Alzheimer\u2019s disease are associated with cognition much earlier in life than previously recognized. The study highlights significant associations between cognition and Alzheimer\u2019s disease risk factors as young as ages 24 to 44 and underscores the importance of early prevention.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first study to systematically examine Alzheimer\u2019s disease risk factors, including biomarkers related to <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cognitive+impairment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cognitive impairment<\/a> in a large group of generally healthy middle-aged individuals in the U.S. The findings are published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2667193X25000973\" target=\"_blank\">The Lancet-Regional Health Americas.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreviously, research on Alzheimer\u2019s disease risk factors has focused on individuals aged 50 and older,\u201d said Allison Aiello, Ph.D., James S. Jackson Healthy Longevity Professor of Epidemiology in the Butler Aging Center and Columbia Mailman School. \u201cThe potential impact of our findings is substantial, offering clinicians and health researchers a clearer understanding of the early emergence of Alzheimer\u2019s disease risk factors and their association with cognition before middle age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia Butler Aging Center suggests that risk factors and biomarkers related to Alzheimer\u2019s disease are associated with cognition much earlier in life than previously recognized. The study highlights significant associations between cognition and Alzheimer\u2019s disease risk factors as young as ages 24 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212063","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}