{"id":344,"date":"2018-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/08\/positive-age-beliefs-may-protect-seniors-against-dementia\/"},"modified":"2018-02-10T15:20:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T15:20:19","slug":"positive-age-beliefs-may-protect-seniors-against-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/08\/positive-age-beliefs-may-protect-seniors-against-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive Age Beliefs May Protect Seniors Against Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>In <i>APOE<\/i> &#949;4 carriers, those with positive age beliefs were less likely to develop dementia<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Positive age beliefs may protect against dementia, even among older individuals with <i>APOE<\/i> \u03b54, according to a study published online Feb. 7 in <i>PLOS ONE<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Becca R. Levy, Ph.D., from the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Conn., and colleagues examined whether culture-acquired positive age beliefs are associated with a reduced risk of developing dementia among older individuals, including <i>APOE<\/i> \u03b54 carriers. Data were included from a cohort of 4,765 Health and Retirement Study participants aged 60 years and older and dementia-free at baseline.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that after adjustment for covariates, participants with positive age beliefs at baseline were significantly less likely to develop dementia in the total sample. Among participants with <i>APOE<\/i> \u03b54, those with positive age beliefs were significantly less likely to develop dementia than those with negative age beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The results of this study suggest that positive age beliefs, which are modifiable and have been found to reduce stress, can act as a protective factor, even for older individuals at high risk of dementia,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0191004\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In <i>APOE<\/i> &#949;4 carriers, those with positive age beliefs were less likely to develop dementia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}