{"id":57434,"date":"2022-11-07T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2022-11-07\/el-misterio-de-la-demencia-menguante-la-proporcion-de-personas-mayores-afectadas-cae-hasta-un-30-en-15-anos.html"},"modified":"2022-11-07T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T20:00:15","slug":"el-misterio-de-la-demencia-menguante-la-proporcion-de-personas-mayores-afectadas-cae-hasta-un-30-en-15-anos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/el-misterio-de-la-demencia-menguante-la-proporcion-de-personas-mayores-afectadas-cae-hasta-un-30-en-15-anos\/","title":{"rendered":"The mystery of waning dementia: the proportion of elderly people affected falls to 30% in 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Es <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2021-06-27\/el-enigma-del-alzheimer-su-incidencia-cae-un-16-cada-decada-sin-que-exista-ningun-farmaco.html\">el enigma de la demencia menguante<\/a>. Las personas cada vez viven m\u00e1s a\u00f1os, y el riesgo de sufrir una demencia aumenta con la edad, pero cada vez m\u00e1s estudios confirman una aparente paradoja: la incidencia del alzh\u00e9imer y de otros trastornos similares est\u00e1 cayendo en picado en los pa\u00edses ricos. Un nuevo trabajo constata ahora que la proporci\u00f3n de personas mayores con demencia ha ca\u00eddo un 30% en apenas 15 a\u00f1os en Estados Unidos. Las razones para este desplome no est\u00e1n claras, pero los autores apuntan principalmente al mayor nivel educativo de los ciudadanos. Otros estudios previos han sugerido que las personas analfabetas tienen <a href=\"https:\/\/n.neurology.org\/content\/93\/24\/e2247\">el triple de riesgo<\/a> de padecer una demencia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2022-11-07\/el-misterio-de-la-demencia-menguante-la-proporcion-de-personas-mayores-afectadas-cae-hasta-un-30-en-15-anos.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study in the United States confirms that the percentage of the population with Alzheimer&#039;s and other similar diseases decreases in rich countries, despite there being no effective treatment<\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57435,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57434\/revisions\/57435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}