Risk factors for dementia diagnosis in German primary care practices
- 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.
Author details: | Anke BookerGND, Louis E. C. Jacob, Michael A. RappORCiDGND, Jens Bohlken, Karel Kostev |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610215002082 |
ISSN: | 1041-6102 |
ISSN: | 1741-203X |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26744954 |
Title of parent work (English): | International psychogeriatrics |
Publisher: | Cambridge Univ. Press |
Place of publishing: | New York |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2016 |
Publication year: | 2016 |
Release date: | 2020/03/22 |
Tag: | Alzheimer; dementia; risk factors; statins |
Volume: | 28 |
Number of pages: | 7 |
First page: | 1059 |
Last Page: | 1065 |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Exzellenzbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |