{"id":72074,"date":"2025-08-17T03:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T03:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=72074"},"modified":"2025-08-17T03:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T03:20:19","slug":"common-medication-linked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=72074","title":{"rendered":"Common Medication Linked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-610.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-610.png 526w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-610-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-610-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A new study suggests patients with chronic pain who receive frequent gabapentin prescriptions may face a higher risk of dementia. Those prescribed the drug six or more times had a 29% increased risk, and 12+ prescriptions raised the risk to 40%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The risk was highest in adults aged 35\u201349. While the study shows a link\u2014not causation\u2014experts recommend doctors monitor cognitive health in long-term users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patients should not stop gabapentin without medical advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new study suggests patients with chronic pain who receive frequent gabapentin prescriptions may face a higher risk of dementia. Those prescribed the drug six or more times had a 29% increased risk, and 12+ prescriptions raised the risk to 40%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ternalnews.info\/?author=1\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=72039\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ternalnews.info\/?p=15963\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests patients with chronic pain who receive frequent gabapentin prescriptions may face a higher risk of dementia. Those prescribed the drug six or more&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72076,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72074\/revisions\/72076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}