{"id":326718,"date":"2025-12-04T07:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326718\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T07:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:48:10","slug":"sepsis-and-pneumonia-the-infections-with-strongest-links-to-dementia-risk-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326718\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepsis and pneumonia the infections with strongest links to dementia risk: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Common infections affect dementia risk more than expected, suggests new evidence, which ranks sepsis, pneumonia and UTIs the most dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers pooled data from more than four million people across 16 studies and found that being hospitalised with any infection increased the likelihood of developing dementia by 83%.<\/p>\n<p>The effect on vascular dementia risk was considerably higher than for Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Sepsis carried the highest risk, followed by pneumonia, UTIs and skin and soft-tissue infections based on hazard ratios.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Common infections affect dementia risk more than expected, suggests new evidence, which ranks sepsis, pneumonia and UTIs the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,9757,9933,137,41792,2166,9798,44,27393],"class_list":["post-326718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dementia","tag-geriatrics","tag-health","tag-infection","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-neurology","tag-news","tag-psychiatry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}