ArticleeLife2020
Body height in young adult men and risk of dementia later in adult life.
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- Body size and intracranial volume interact with the structure of the central nervous system: A multi-center in vivo neuroimaging study.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Proxy-analysis of the genetics of cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease through polygenic scores.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2024Article
- Combining Mendelian randomization and network deconvolution for inference of causal networks with GWAS summary data.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- Poor Cognitive Agility Conservation in Obese Aging People.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- Height and nigral neuron density in Parkinson's disease.BMC neurology · 2022Article
- Sex-related associations between body height and cognitive impairment among low-income elderly adults in rural China: a population-based cross-sectional study.Biology of sex differences · 2021Article
- Heterogeneous effects of genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease on the phenome.Translational psychiatry · 2021Article
- Association of life course socioeconomic status and adult height with cognitive functioning of older adults in India and China.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
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Abstract
This study examined the relationship between body height and dementia and explored the impact of intelligence level, educational attainment, early life environment and familial factors. A total of 666,333 men, 70,608 brothers, and 7388 twin brothers born 1939-1959 and examined at the conscript board were followed in Danish nationwide registers (1969-2016). Cox regression models were applied to analyze the association between body height and dementia. Within-brothers and within-twin pair analyses were conducted to explore the role of shared familial factors including partly shared genetics. In total, 10,599 men were diagnosed with dementia. The association between one z-score difference in body height and dementia (HR: 0.90, 95% CI: 0.89;0.90) was inverse and weakened slightly after adjustment for intelligence test scores and educational level. The associations persisted in within-brother analysis and revealed a stronger, but less precise, point estimate than the cohort analysis of brothers. The twin analysis showed similar, but imprecise estimates.
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