{"id":3465,"date":"2023-05-17T22:47:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T22:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2023-05-17T22:47:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T22:47:31","slug":"a-mans-rare-gene-variant-may-have-shielded-him-from-devastating-form-of-early-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=3465","title":{"rendered":"A Man\u2019s Rare Gene Variant May Have Shielded Him From Devastating Form of Early Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-122-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-3466\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-122-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-122-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-122-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-122-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-122-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-122-390x219.png 390w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-122.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A man carried a genetic mutation that set him up to develop early-onset Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, but another gene kept him healthy for many years.\u00a0(Image credit: byakkaya via Getty Images)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A newly discovered genetic variant protects against a particularly devastating form of early\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65748-alzheimers-disease.html\">Alzheimer&#8217;s disease<\/a>, raising scientists&#8217; hopes of finding treatments that can prevent or slow the progression of this and other forms of the disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/alzheimers-dementia\/a-mans-rare-gene-variant-may-have-shielded-him-from-devastating-form-of-early-alzheimers\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/alzheimers-dementia\/a-mans-rare-gene-variant-may-have-shielded-him-from-devastating-form-of-early-alzheimers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered genetic variant protects against a particularly devastating form of early\u00a0Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, raising scientists&#8217; hopes of finding treatments that can prevent or slow the progression of this and other forms of the disease.\u00a0 Read more: https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/alzheimers-dementia\/a-mans-rare-gene-variant-may-have-shielded-him-from-devastating-form-of-early-alzheimers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3467,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}