{"id":1289,"date":"2009-05-26T22:25:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T21:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2009-05-26T22:25:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T21:25:25","slug":"cigarette-smoking-and-cognitive-decline-in-mid-life-evidence-from-a-prospective-birth-cohort-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/05\/cigarette-smoking-and-cognitive-decline-in-mid-life-evidence-from-a-prospective-birth-cohort-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigarette Smoking and Cognitive decline in Mid-Life  Evidence From a Prospective Birth Cohort Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who smoke heavily seem to suffer memory loss in middle age according to a new study from Great Britain. Researchers found that people in their 50s who smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day had poorer verbal- memory and visual-speed skills. Researchers said the participants were too young to determine whether the declines would lead to serious cognitive problems in old age. But smoking has been identified as a risk factor for dementia because it restricts blood flow in the brain and raises the risk of narrowed arteries and mini-strokes. The researchers plan to continue to measure the memory skills of this group as they get older.<br \/>\nSource: Richards, M., Jarvis, M., et al American Journal of Public Health June 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who smoke heavily seem to suffer memory loss in middle age according to a new study from Great Britain. Researchers found that people in their 50s who smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day had poorer verbal- memory and visual-speed skills. Researchers said the participants were too young to determine whether the declines would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,68,64,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain-and-behaviour","category-drug-use-various-effects","category-health","category-nicotine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}