{"id":85807,"date":"2018-12-13T19:03:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T03:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/alzheimers-could-be-triggered-by-medical-procedures-study-suggests"},"modified":"2018-12-13T19:03:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T03:03:16","slug":"alzheimers-could-be-triggered-by-medical-procedures-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/alzheimers-could-be-triggered-by-medical-procedures-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s could be triggered by medical procedures, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alzheimers-could-be-triggered-by-medical-procedures-study-suggests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The seeds of Alzheimer\u2019s disease can be transmitted through medical procedures, scientists have found, leading experts to call for the monitoring of blood transfusions from the elderly and those with a family history of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, researchers at University College London discovered that people who developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) following treatments with human growth hormone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/science\/science-news\/11853619\/Alzheimers-disease-may-be-caught-through-medical-accidents.html\"> also showed signs of Alzheimer\u2019s in their brains after death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists tracked down vials of the same hormone and found that it did indeed contain misfolded amyloid-beta proteins, capable of setting off the deadly chain reaction which can lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2017\/11\/07\/dementia-now-britains-biggest-killer-overtaking-heart-disease\/\">dementia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/12\/13\/seeds-alzheimers-can-transmitted-medical-procedures-study-suggests\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/12\/13\/seeds-alzheim...-suggests\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seeds of Alzheimer\u2019s disease can be transmitted through medical procedures, scientists have found, leading experts to call for the monitoring of blood transfusions from the elderly and those with a family history of dementia. In 2015, researchers at University College London discovered that people who developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) following treatments with human growth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85807","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\/85807","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}