{"id":65926,"date":"2023-04-04T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-04-04\/el-farmaco-mas-prometedor-contra-el-alzheimer-encoge-el-cerebro-de-los-pacientes.html"},"modified":"2023-04-04T03:21:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T03:21:00","slug":"el-farmaco-mas-prometedor-contra-el-alzheimer-encoge-el-cerebro-de-los-pacientes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/el-farmaco-mas-prometedor-contra-el-alzheimer-encoge-el-cerebro-de-los-pacientes\/","title":{"rendered":"The most promising drug against Alzheimer&#039;s shrinks the brains of patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El f\u00e1rmaco m\u00e1s prometedor contra el alzh\u00e9imer de las \u00faltimas d\u00e9cadas reduce el tama\u00f1o del cerebro de los pacientes sin que se sepa por qu\u00e9 ni qu\u00e9 efectos puede tener a largo plazo. El medicamento, llamado lecanemab, reduce un 27% el deterioro cognitivo asociado a esta enfermedad en pacientes que est\u00e1n en las primeras etapas de la dolencia. Pero la droga, a\u00fan experimental, tambi\u00e9n produce efectos secundarios preocupantes como peque\u00f1as hemorragias, y ha podido estar relacionada con la muerte de <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2022-10-06\/asi-es-el-farmaco-experimental-que-promete-frenar-el-alzheimer.html\">dos personas<\/a>. Un nuevo estudio ha analizado otro efecto colateral de este f\u00e1rmaco y otros similares: la reducci\u00f3n acelerada del volumen del cerebro en los pacientes que lo toman. Seg\u00fan el an\u00e1lisis, las personas que reciben lecanemab experimentan una reducci\u00f3n en el tama\u00f1o de su enc\u00e9falo 28% mayor que los que toman un placebo. Otro f\u00e1rmaco experimental similar, el donanemab, tambi\u00e9n produce efectos similares.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-04-04\/el-farmaco-mas-prometedor-contra-el-alzheimer-encoge-el-cerebro-de-los-pacientes.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/prisa\/P5POIXPGGBABPLSKMX4PWDRO3U.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"451\" alt=\"Auguste Deter, fotografiada en 1902.\"><\/img><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study on lecanemab and other similar drugs warns of brain shrinkage with unknown consequences.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65926","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\/65926","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65944,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65926\/revisions\/65944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}