{"id":243092,"date":"2026-07-14T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/one-in-four-adults-has-metabolic-syndrome-and-it-may-be-ageing-their-brains\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T10:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:25:09","slug":"one-in-four-adults-has-metabolic-syndrome-and-it-may-be-ageing-their-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/one-in-four-adults-has-metabolic-syndrome-and-it-may-be-ageing-their-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"One in four adults has metabolic syndrome \u2013 and it may be ageing their brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/one-in-four-adults-has-metabolic-syndrome-and-it-may-be-ageing-their-brains-284397\">One in four adults has metabolic syndrome \u2013 and it may be ageing their brains<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/one-in-four-adults-has-metabolic-syndrome-and-it-may-be-ageing-their-brains-284397\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/one-in-four-adults-has-metabolic-syndrome-and-it-may-be-ageing-their-brains-284397<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-14 09:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An estimated one in four adults worldwide has metabolic syndrome.<\/li>\n<li>Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of risk factors, including high blood sugar, high blood pressure, excess belly fat, low HDL cholesterol, and high triglycerides.<\/li>\n<li>Previous research linked metabolic syndrome to neurological disorders like stroke, dementia, and Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/li>\n<li>A new study using MRI scans found that people with metabolic syndrome have brains that appear significantly older than their chronological age.<\/li>\n<li>The presence of each metabolic syndrome component led to greater brain ageing, indicating the severity of brain ageing increases with more components present.<\/li>\n<li>Three metabolites linked to metabolic syndrome partially explain its impact on brain ageing: chronic inflammation, atherosclerosis markers, and fatty acids.<\/li>\n<li>Lifestyle changes like regular exercise, a healthy diet, and quality sleep can mitigate the effects of metabolic syndrome on brain ageing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in four adults has metabolic syndrome \u2013 and it may be ageing their brains&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/747727\/original\/file-20260714-57-fxy1bp.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C253%2C7211%2C3605&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243094,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243092\/revisions\/243094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}