{"id":5167,"date":"2026-08-07T03:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=5167"},"modified":"2026-08-07T03:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:04:05","slug":"how-to-increase-your-chances-of-avoiding-dementia-a-possible-human-lifespan-of-194-years-the-biggest-factors-affecting-sleep-plus-other-stories-with-vanderbilt-health-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=5167","title":{"rendered":"How to increase your chances of avoiding dementia; a possible human lifespan of 194 years; the biggest factors affecting sleep; plus other stories with Vanderbilt Health sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(iStock)<\/p>\n<p>Everyday &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=5107&quot; title=&quot;The Complexities of Governing Mental <a href=\"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=5097\" title=\"ESL Commits $2M to Newark Health and Wellness Campus\">Health<\/a> AI | Stanford HAI&#8221;&gt;Health<\/a>\u00a0interviewed Amalia\u00a0Peterson, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, for a story about research that found\u00a0having normal blood pressure, no diabetes, and not smoking from age 45 to 65 are linked with nearly 13 additional years on average of dementia-free life<\/p>\n<p>James\u00a0Powers, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, is quoted in a Healthline story about a study that says the maximum human lifetime is 194 years<\/p>\n<p>Prevention published a story about the \u201c6 biggest factors affecting your sleep\u201d that quotes Beth Malow, MD, Professor of\u00a0Neurology and <a href=\"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=5110\" title=\"3rd International Conference on Pediatrics and Child Health\">Pediatrics<\/a> in the Vanderbilt Sleep Division<\/p>\n<p>William Schaffner, MD, Professor of Preventive Medicine, was quoted by several news outlets about public health issues, including: WKRN News 2 and Healthline(drug-resistant fungus Candida auris); CNN (what we\u2019ve learned about COVID since the pandemic); ABC News (\u201crabbit fever\u201d cases in New York); and Bloomberg (cyclospora outbreak)<\/p>\n<p>STAT\u00a0News\u00a0reporter Lizzy Lawrence interviewed Gitanjali Srivastava, MD, Director of Obesity Medicine, for a story about retatrutide, Lilly\u2019s unapproved obesity drug<\/p>\n<p>WKRN News2, interviewed Anna Morad, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, about infant mortality rates in Rutherford County. That county\u2019s rates are about double the state as a whole<\/p>\n<p>Tech Times quoted Stacie Dusetzina, PhD, professor of Health Policy, in a story about Medicare Part D premium increases for next year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyday Health\u00a0interviewed Amalia\u00a0Peterson, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, for a story about research that found\u00a0having normal blood pressure, no diabetes, and not smoking from age 45 to 65 are linked with nearly 13 additional years on average of dementia-free life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[735,734,736,200,269],"class_list":["post-5167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-news","tag-avoiding","tag-chances","tag-dementia","tag-increase","tag-your"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5168,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions\/5168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}