{"id":729417,"date":"2010-05-19T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=47110"},"modified":"2010-05-19T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:00:49","slug":"hardened-arteries-elderly-falls-linked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/729417","title":{"rendered":"Hardened Arteries, Elderly Falls Linked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stiffening of the aging brain&#8217;s blood vessels reduces their ability to respond to changes in blood pressure, increasing the risk of falls by as much as 70%, researchers reported Monday\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Farzaneh A. Sorond, a neurologist at Harvard University&#8217;s Institute for Aging Research, and her colleagues studied 420 people over the age of 65. The team used ultrasound to measure the flow of blood in the patients&#8217; brains while they were at rest and when they were breathing rapidly\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/health\/sns-health-hardened-arteries-elderly-falls,0,5008873.story\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stiffening of the aging brain&#8217;s blood vessels reduces their ability to respond to changes in blood pressure, increasing the risk of falls by as much as 70%, researchers reported Monday\u2026 Dr. Farzaneh A. Sorond, a neurologist at Harvard University&#8217;s Institute for Aging Research, and her colleagues studied 420 people over the age of 65. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2651,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33KN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}