{"id":1451,"date":"2010-12-18T17:35:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T00:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/blog\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2011-01-17T00:08:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T07:08:04","slug":"good%e2%80%99-cholesterol-may-lower-alzheimer%e2%80%99s-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/2010\/good%e2%80%99-cholesterol-may-lower-alzheimer%e2%80%99s-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Alzheimer\u2019s Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By Roni Caryn Rabin: <\/em>Could HDL cholesterol \u2014 the good kind linked to lower heart disease risk \u2014 also protect people from dementia?<\/p>\n

A\u00a0new study<\/a> reports that older New York City residents who had very high blood levels of high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, the so-called \u201cgood\u201d cholesterol, were at less than half the risk of developing dementia over time than those with the lowest levels.<\/p>\n

The people who reaped the benefit had very high HDL blood levels that exceeded 56 milligrams per deciliter of blood, the study reported. They developed 60 percent fewer cases of Alzheimer\u2019s disease than people with the lowest HDL levels, of 38 milligrams or below. The differences between the two groups held even after the researchers adjusted the figures to account for other causal factors that influence the development of dementia, like vascular disease, as well as age, sex, education level and genes that predispose to Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think it\u2019s a causal relationship,\u201d said Dr. Christiane Reitz, the study\u2019s lead author and an assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University\u2019s Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer\u2019s Disease and the Aging Brain. \u00a0\u201cAt the baseline, when we recruited these people, they didn\u2019t have cognitive problems. We followed them, and they developed dementia during the follow-up period.\u201d<\/p>\n

Article<\/a><\/p>\n

My comment: Raise HDL cholesterol with vigorous exercise, onion family vegetables, and omega-3 oils! \u00a0These oils are found in cold water fish, walnuts and kiwi.–Cathie Dunal<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Roni Caryn Rabin: Could HDL cholesterol \u2014 the good kind linked to lower heart disease risk \u2014 also protect people from dementia? A\u00a0new study reports that older New York City residents who had very high blood levels of high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, the so-called \u201cgood\u201d cholesterol, were at less than half the risk of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[13,14,28,253,254,80,236,237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}