{"id":2477,"date":"2014-08-20T05:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2025-09-28T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:08:11","slug":"vitamin-d-and-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2477","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D and Alzheimer&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the NY times Health and Fitness section.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/14\/vitamin-d-tied-to-alzheimers-risk\/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;emc=edit_hh_20140819&amp;nl=health&amp;nlid=5681832&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">Low vitamin D is associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer\u2019s disease and other forms of dementia, according to a new report, though whether low vitamin D is a cause of the disorders remains unknown.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The study, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neurology.org\/content\/early\/2014\/08\/06\/WNL.0000000000000755.full.pdf+html\">published online in the journal Neurology<\/a>, controlled for many dementia risk factors \u2014 including age, education, sex, body mass index, smoking, alcohol use, diabetes and hypertension. It found that compared with those who had vitamin D levels of 50 or more nanomoles per liter, those with levels of 25 to 50 had a 53 percent increased risk for all-cause dementia and a 69 percent increased risk for Alzheimer\u2019s disease. People with readings of 25 or less were more than twice as likely to have Alzheimer\u2019s or another form of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>So take your vitamins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NY times Health and Fitness section. Low vitamin D is associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer\u2019s disease and other forms of dementia, according to a new report, though whether low vitamin D is a cause of the disorders remains unknown. The study, published online in the journal Neurology, controlled for many dementia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8316,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/8316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}