{"id":281,"date":"2022-09-13T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/22\/b-vitamins-slow-mental-decline\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:55:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:55:13","slug":"b-vitamins-slow-mental-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/b-vitamins-slow-mental-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"B vitamins slow mental decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>Homocysteine, an amino acid found in the blood, represents a risk factor for Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. This study evaluated the relationship among homocysteine, Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and levels of B vitamins in the blood. 266 participants with cognitive (mental) impairment were given either folic acid, vitamin B12 and vitamin B6 or a placebo for 2 years. The results showed that B vitamins slowed cognitive decline in patients with cognitive impairment, in particular in those with elevated homocysteine. Further details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Celeste A de Jager,\u00a0Abderrahim Oulhaj,\u00a0Robin Jacoby,\u00a0Helga Refsum,\u00a0A David Smith<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/21780182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Homocysteine, an amino acid found in the blood, represents a risk factor for Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. This study evaluated the relationship among homocysteine, Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and levels of B vitamins in the blood. 266 participants with cognitive (mental) impairment were given either folic acid, vitamin B12 and vitamin B6 or a placebo for 2 years.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[302],"tags":[1047,1049,1048,1050,1051],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6035,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/6035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}