{"id":1445,"date":"2026-02-25T14:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/dementia-risk-nearly-fivefold-higher-for-people-with-multiple-sclerosis-study\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:15:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:15:54","slug":"dementia-risk-nearly-fivefold-higher-for-people-with-multiple-sclerosis-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/dementia-risk-nearly-fivefold-higher-for-people-with-multiple-sclerosis-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia risk nearly fivefold higher for people with multiple sclerosis: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/02\/25\/dementia-risk-nearly-fivefold-higher-multiple-sclerosis-patients\/\" title=\"Dementia risk nearly fivefold higher for people with multiple sclerosis: Study\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/iStock-2229081908-800x450.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Two hands embrace the hand of a woman whose face is partially obscured.\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"159831\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People with multiple sclerosis (MS) have a nearly fivefold increased risk of developing dementia compared with those without the disease, according to a real-world study in Taiwan. Treatment with disease-modifying therapies significantly reduced the risk for neurodegenerative dementias, or dementias associated with the loss of brain cells, the study found. Additionally, the use of Aubagio [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/02\/25\/dementia-risk-nearly-fivefold-higher-multiple-sclerosis-patients\/\">Dementia risk nearly fivefold higher for people with multiple sclerosis: Study<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\">Multiple Sclerosis News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/02\/25\/dementia-risk-nearly-fivefold-higher-multiple-sclerosis-patients\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with multiple sclerosis (MS) have a nearly fivefold increased risk of developing dementia compared with those without the disease, according to a real-world study in Taiwan. Treatment with disease-modifying therapies significantly reduced the risk for neurodegenerative dementias, or dementias associated with the loss of brain cells, the study found. Additionally, the use of Aubagio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,15,9,8,13,14,12,10],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multiple-sclerosis-research","tag-brain-repair","tag-marburg-type-ms","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-myelin","tag-neuroregeneration","tag-oligodendrocyte","tag-remyelination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}