{"id":8061,"date":"2022-10-07T11:12:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T01:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=8061"},"modified":"2022-10-07T11:15:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T01:15:19","slug":"the-relationship-between-alcohol-use-and-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/10\/07\/the-relationship-between-alcohol-use-and-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"The relationship between alcohol use and dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/add.16035\">The relationship between alcohol use and dementia in adults aged more than 60\u2009years: a combined analysis of prospective, individual\u2010participant data from 15 international studies &#8211; Mewton &#8211; Addiction &#8211; Wiley Online Library<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"_7s4syPYtk5hfUIjySXcRE\">While light to moderate alcohol use may reduce dementia risk, even low levels of alcohol use have been associated with reduced brain volume, grey matter atrophy and increased white matter hyperintensities, indicating that alcohol use is unlikely to be directly neuroprotective. In addition, light-to-moderate alcohol use has been associated with other health conditions, including some cancers, cautioning against recommending the commencement of alcohol use in those who abstain.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The relationship between alcohol use and dementia in adults aged more than 60\u2009years: a combined analysis of prospective, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8061"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8066,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061\/revisions\/8066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}