TY  - JOUR
A1  - Booker, Anke
A1  - Jacob, Louis E. C.
A1  - Rapp, Michael Armin
A1  - Bohlken, Jens
A1  - Kostev, Karel
T1  - Risk factors for dementia diagnosis in German primary care practices
JF  - International psychogeriatrics
N2  - Background: Dementia is a psychiatric condition the development of which is associated with numerous aspects of life. Our aim was to estimate dementia risk factors in German primary care patients.
 Methods: The case-control study included primary care patients (70-90 years) with first diagnosis of dementia (all-cause) during the index period (01/2010-12/2014) (Disease Analyzer, Germany), and controls without dementia matched (1:1) to cases on the basis of age, sex, type of health insurance, and physician. Practice visit records were used to verify that there had been 10 years of continuous follow-up prior to the index date. Multivariate logistic regression models were fitted with dementia as a dependent variable and the potential predictors.
 Conclusions: Risk factors for dementia found in this study are consistent with the literature. Nevertheless, the associations between statin, PPI and antihypertensive drug use, and decreased risk of dementia need further investigations.
KW  - dementia
KW  - Alzheimer
KW  - risk factors
KW  - statins
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610215002082
SN  - 1041-6102
SN  - 1741-203X
VL  - 28
SP  - 1059
EP  - 1065
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  -