{"id":226615,"date":"2025-12-06T00:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/poor-kidney-health-linked-to-higher-levels-of-alzheimers-biomarkers-in-blood"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:35:20","slug":"poor-kidney-health-linked-to-higher-levels-of-alzheimers-biomarkers-in-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/poor-kidney-health-linked-to-higher-levels-of-alzheimers-biomarkers-in-blood","title":{"rendered":"Poor kidney health linked to higher levels of Alzheimer\u2019s biomarkers in blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/poor-kidney-health-linked-to-higher-levels-of-alzheimers-biomarkers-in-blood.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People with impaired kidney function have higher levels of Alzheimer\u2019s biomarkers in their blood, but not an increased risk of dementia, according to a study published in Neurology.<\/p>\n<p>The study does not prove that poor kidney function causes higher levels of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2025-01-chronic-kidney-disease-brain-atrophy.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">Alzheimer\u2019s biomarkers<\/a> in the blood, it only shows an association.<\/p>\n<p>Kidneys remove waste and toxins from the blood, which are then excreted in urine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with impaired kidney function have higher levels of Alzheimer\u2019s biomarkers in their blood, but not an increased risk of dementia, according to a study published in Neurology. The study does not prove that poor kidney function causes higher levels of Alzheimer\u2019s biomarkers in the blood, it only shows an association. Kidneys remove waste and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226615","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=226615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}