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- Title
Diverticular disease and additional comorbidities associated with increased risk of dementia.
- Authors
Peng, Yen ‐ Chun; Lin, Cheng ‐ Li; Yeh, Hong ‐ Zen; Tung, Chun ‐ Fang; Chang, Chi ‐ Sen; Kao, Chia ‐ Hung
- Abstract
Background and Aim Colonic diverticular disease may cause a chronic systemic effect, but its role in the development of dementia remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential increased risk for dementia in colonic diverticular disease. Methods We conducted a population-based cohort study using data from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database. A total of 66 377 sex-matched, age-matched, and index year-matched (1:4) pairs of patients with colonic diverticular disease and 265 508 patients without colonic diverticular disease, who served as controls, were selected from all potential participants aged 20 years or older in the database. Each subject was individually tracked from 2000 to 2011 to identify incident cases of dementia. Cox proportional hazards regression was employed to calculate the hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the association between colonic diverticular disease and dementia. Results There were 1057 dementia cases in the diverticular disease cohort during the follow-up period of 315 171 person-years; the overall incidence rate of dementia differed from that of the control group (3.35 vs 2.43 per 1000 person-years, P < 0.001). The adjusted hazard ratio for dementia was 1.24 (95% confidence interval 1.15-1.33) for diverticular disease patients after adjusting for age, sex, and comorbidities. Conclusions Colonic diverticular disease may be associated with increased risk for dementia.
- Subjects
DIVERTICULOSIS; DEMENTIA risk factors; COMORBIDITY; FOLLOW-up studies (Medicine); PROPORTIONAL hazards models; MEDICAL databases
- Publication
Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2016, Vol 31, Issue 11, p1816
- ISSN
0815-9319
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jgh.13389