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Type 2diabetes as a risk factor for dementia in women compared with men: A pooled analysis of 2.3 million people comprising more than 100,000 cases of dementia
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posted on 2016-02-01, 00:00 authored by S Chatterjee, S A E Peters, M Woodward, S M Arango, G D Batty, N Beckett, A Beiser, A R Borenstein, P K Crane, M Haan, L B Hassing, K M Hayden, Y Kiyohara, E B Larson, C Y Li, T Ninomiya, T Ohara, R Peters, T C Russ, S Seshadri, B H Strand, R Walker, W Xu, Rachel HuxleyRachel HuxleyOBJECTIVE
Type 2 diabetes confers a greater excess risk of cardiovascular disease in women than in men. Diabetes is also a risk factor for dementia, but whether the association is similar in women and men remains unknown. We performed a meta-analysis of unpublished data to estimate the sex-specific relationship between women and men with diabetes with incident dementia.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS
A systematic search identified studies published prior to November 2014 that had reported on the prospective association between diabetes and dementia. Study authors contributed unpublished sex-specific relative risks (RRs) and 95% CIs on the association between diabetes and all dementia and its subtypes. Sex-specific RRs and the women-to-men ratio of RRs (RRRs) were pooled using random-effects meta-analyses.
RESULTS
Study-level data from 14 studies, 2,310,330 individuals, and 102,174 dementia case patients were included. In multiple-adjusted analyses, diabetes was associated with a 60% increased risk of any dementia in both sexes (women: pooled RR 1.62 [95% CI 1.45–1.80]; men: pooled RR 1.58 [95% CI 1.38–1.81]). The diabetes-associated RRs for vascular dementia were 2.34 (95% CI 1.86–2.94) in women and 1.73 (95% CI 1.61–1.85) in men, and for nonvascular dementia, the RRs were 1.53 (95% CI 1.35–1.73) in women and 1.49 (95% CI 1.31–1.69) in men. Overall, women with diabetes had a 19% greater risk for the development of vascular dementia than men (multiple-adjusted RRR 1.19 [95% CI 1.08–1.30]; P < 0.001).
CONCLUSIONS
Individuals with type 2 diabetes are at ∼60% greater risk for the development of dementia compared with those without diabetes. For vascular dementia, but not for nonvascular dementia, the additional risk is greater in women.
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Diabetes CareVolume
39Issue
2Pagination
300 - 307Publisher
AMER DIABETES ASSOCLocation
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0149-5992eISSN
1935-5548Language
EnglishPublication classification
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