{"id":225022,"date":"2025-11-13T05:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/alzheimers-risk-calculator-could-spot-danger-years-before-symptoms-begin"},"modified":"2025-11-13T05:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:16:03","slug":"alzheimers-risk-calculator-could-spot-danger-years-before-symptoms-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/alzheimers-risk-calculator-could-spot-danger-years-before-symptoms-begin","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s risk calculator could spot danger years before symptoms begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alzheimers-risk-calculator-could-spot-danger-years-before-symptoms-begin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new tool that can estimate a person\u2019s risk of developing memory and thinking problems associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease years before symptoms appear.<\/p>\n<p>The research, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/laneur\/article\/PIIS1474-4422(25)00350-3\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>The Lancet Neurology<\/i>, builds on decades of data from the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging\u2014one of the world\u2019s most comprehensive population-based studies of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+health\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that women have a higher <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/lifetime+risk\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lifetime risk<\/a> than men of developing <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/dementia\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dementia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/mild+cognitive+impairment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mild cognitive impairment<\/a> (MCI), a transitional stage between healthy aging and dementia that often affects quality of life but still allows people to live independently. Men and women with the common genetic variant, APOE \u03b54, also have a higher lifetime risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new tool that can estimate a person\u2019s risk of developing memory and thinking problems associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease years before symptoms appear. The research, published in The Lancet Neurology, builds on decades of data from the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging\u2014one of the world\u2019s most comprehensive population-based studies of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225022","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=225022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}