Sex differences in dementia risk and risk factors : Individual-participant data analysis using 21 cohorts across six continents from the COSMIC consortium

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INTRODUCTION: Sex differences in dementia risk, and risk factor (RF) associations with dementia, remain uncertain across diverse ethno-regional groups.

METHODS: A total of 29,850 participants (58% women) from 21 cohorts across six continents were included in an individual participant data meta-analysis. Sex-specific hazard ratios (HRs), and women-to-men ratio of hazard ratios (RHRs) for associations between RFs and all-cause dementia were derived from mixed-effect Cox models.

RESULTS: Incident dementia occurred in 2089 (66% women) participants over 4.6 years (median). Women had higher dementia risk (HR, 1.12 [1.02, 1.23]) than men, particularly in low- and lower-middle-income economies. Associations between longer education and former alcohol use with dementia risk (RHR, 1.01 [1.00, 1.03] per year, and 0.55 [0.38, 0.79], respectively) were stronger for men than women; otherwise, there were no discernible sex differences in other RFs.

DISCUSSION: Dementia risk was higher in women than men, with possible variations by country-level income settings, but most RFs appear to work similarly in women and men.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:19

Enthalten in:

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association - 19(2023), 8 vom: 01. Aug., Seite 3365-3378

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gong, Jessica [VerfasserIn]
Harris, Katie [VerfasserIn]
Lipnicki, Darren M [VerfasserIn]
Castro-Costa, Erico [VerfasserIn]
Lima-Costa, Maria Fernanda [VerfasserIn]
Diniz, Breno S [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Shifu [VerfasserIn]
Lipton, Richard B [VerfasserIn]
Katz, Mindy J [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Cuiling [VerfasserIn]
Preux, Pierre-Marie [VerfasserIn]
Guerchet, Maëlenn [VerfasserIn]
Gbessemehlan, Antoine [VerfasserIn]
Ritchie, Karen [VerfasserIn]
Ancelin, Marie-Laure [VerfasserIn]
Skoog, Ingmar [VerfasserIn]
Najar, Jenna [VerfasserIn]
Sterner, Therese Rydberg [VerfasserIn]
Scarmeas, Nikolaos [VerfasserIn]
Yannakoulia, Mary [VerfasserIn]
Kosmidis, Mary H [VerfasserIn]
Guaita, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Rolandi, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Davin, Annalisa [VerfasserIn]
Gureje, Oye [VerfasserIn]
Trompet, Stella [VerfasserIn]
Gussekloo, Jacobijn [VerfasserIn]
Riedel-Heller, Steffi [VerfasserIn]
Pabst, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Röhr, Susanne [VerfasserIn]
Shahar, Suzana [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Devinder Kaur Ajit [VerfasserIn]
Rivan, Nurul Fatin Malek [VerfasserIn]
Boxtel, Martin van [VerfasserIn]
Köhler, Sebastian [VerfasserIn]
Ganguli, Mary [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Chung-Chou [VerfasserIn]
Jacobsen, Erin [VerfasserIn]
Haan, Mary [VerfasserIn]
Ding, Ding [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Qianhua [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Zhenxu [VerfasserIn]
Narazaki, Kenji [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Tao [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Sanmei [VerfasserIn]
Ng, Tze Pin [VerfasserIn]
Gwee, Xinyi [VerfasserIn]
Numbers, Katya [VerfasserIn]
Mather, Karen A [VerfasserIn]
Scazufca, Marcia [VerfasserIn]
Lobo, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
De-la-Cámara, Concepción [VerfasserIn]
Lobo, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Sachdev, Perminder S [VerfasserIn]
Brodaty, Henry [VerfasserIn]
Hackett, Maree L [VerfasserIn]
Peters, Sanne A E [VerfasserIn]
Woodward, Mark [VerfasserIn]
Cohort Studies of Memory in an International Consortium (COSMIC) [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Data harmonization
Dementia
Diversity
Journal Article
Meta-Analysis
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Risk factor
Sex difference

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Date Completed 11.08.2023

Date Revised 23.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/alz.12962

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM352966009