{"id":2415,"date":"2025-04-11T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/dads-hold-dementia-clues\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T15:01:10","slug":"dads-hold-dementia-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/dads-hold-dementia-clues\/","title":{"rendered":"Dads hold dementia clues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-04-11 15:01:09<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Fathers can hold clues as to whether somebody is at risk of dementia.<BR><br \/>\nA &#8220;surprising&#8221; finding has revealed a familial link in terms of the neurodegenerative disease, as people whose dads have Alzheimer&#8217;s may be at greater risk of the illness.<BR><br \/>\nThe new research found that having a father with the neurodegenerative disease may be tied to a greater spread of the tau protein in the brain \u2013 a warning sign of Alzheimer&#8217;s.<BR><br \/>\nThe study looked at 243 people  &#8211; with an average age of 68 &#8211; who had a family history of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, but had no thinking or memory issues themselves.<BR><br \/>\nPrevious analysis had suggested that having a mother with Alzheimer&#8217;s may put you more at risk of developing the disease.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Sylvia Villeneuve, author of the study at McGill University in Canada, said: &#8220;We were surprised to see that people with a father with Alzheimer&#8217;s were more vulnerable to the spread of tau in the brain, as we had hypothesised that we would see more brain changes in people with affected mothers.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-04-11 15:01:09 Fathers can hold clues as to whether somebody is at risk of dementia. A &#8220;surprising&#8221; finding has revealed a familial link in terms of the neurodegenerative disease, as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}