1. Reproductive factors and the risk of incident dementia: A cohort study of UK Biobank participants
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Gong, Jessica, Harris, Katie, Peters, Sanne A. E., and Woodward, Mark
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Dementia -- Risk factors -- Demographic aspects ,Estradiol -- Comparative analysis ,Women -- Health aspects ,Reproductive health -- Research ,Biological sciences - Abstract
Background Women's reproductive factors have been associated with the risk of dementia; however, these findings remain uncertain. This study aimed to examine the risk of incident all-cause dementia associated with reproductive factors in women and the number of children in both sexes and whether the associations vary by age, socioeconomic status (SES), smoking status, and body mass index (BMI) in the UK Biobank. Methods and findings A total of 273,240 women and 228,957 men without prevalent dementia from the UK Biobank were included in the analyses. Cox proportional hazard regressions estimated hazard ratios (HRs) for reproductive factors with incident all-cause dementia. Multiple adjusted models included age at study entry, SES, ethnicity, smoking status, systolic blood pressure, BMI, history of diabetes mellitus, total cholesterol, antihypertensive drugs, and lipid-lowering drugs. Over a median of 11.8 years follow-up, 1,866 dementia cases were recorded in women and 2,202 in men. Multiple adjusted HRs ((95% confidence intervals (CIs)), p-value) for dementia were 1.20 (1.08, 1.34) (p = 0.016) for menarche 14 years compared to 13 years; 0.85 (0.74, 0.98) (p = 0.026) for ever been pregnant; 1.43 (1.26, 1.62) (p < 0.001) for age at first live birth Conclusions In this study, we observed that some reproductive events related to shorter cumulative endogenous estrogen exposure in women were associated with higher dementia risk, and there was a similar association between the number of children and dementia risk between women and men., Author(s): Jessica Gong 1,*, Katie Harris 1, Sanne A. E. Peters 1,2,3, Mark Woodward 1,2 Introduction The dementia epidemic confronts the world as a major challenge, with extensive impact on [...]
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- 2022
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