{"id":242661,"date":"2026-08-13T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/sleep-could-help-identify-people-at-risk-of-developing-alzheimers-disease-at-an-earlier-stage"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:13:09","slug":"sleep-could-help-identify-people-at-risk-of-developing-alzheimers-disease-at-an-earlier-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/sleep-could-help-identify-people-at-risk-of-developing-alzheimers-disease-at-an-earlier-stage","title":{"rendered":"Sleep could help identify people at risk of developing Alzheimer\u2019s disease at an earlier stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sleep-could-help-identify-people-at-risk-of-developing-alzheimers-disease-at-an-earlier-stage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if certain signs of the disease were to manifest subtly during sleep, long before the first memory problems appear? This is the line of inquiry being explored by a team of researchers at ULi\u00e8ge.<\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists from the University of Li\u00e8ge (GIGA Neurosciences), supported by the Stop Alzheimer\u2019s Foundation, has analyzed the sleep patterns of more than 500 healthy people. Among middle-aged participants, a higher frequency of nocturnal micro-awakenings was found to be associated with a greater genetic risk of developing Alzheimer\u2019s disease, whereas this link was not observed in young adults. This research, <a href=\"https:\/\/jbiomedsci.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12929-025-01127-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Sleep<\/i>, suggests that the study of sleep could, in the long term, contribute to the early identification of vulnerable individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if certain signs of the disease were to manifest subtly during sleep, long before the first memory problems appear? This is the line of inquiry being explored by a team of researchers at ULi\u00e8ge. A team of scientists from the University of Li\u00e8ge (GIGA Neurosciences), supported by the Stop Alzheimer\u2019s Foundation, has analyzed the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242661","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=242661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}