ArticleEuropean journal of epidemiology2020
Body mass index in young adulthood and risk of subsequent dementia at different levels of intelligence and education in Danish men.
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- Associations among Body Mass Index, Waist-to-Hip Ratio, and Cognitive Impairment Tend to Follow an Opposite Trend and Are Sex Specific: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study in a Rural Area of Xi'an, China.Neuroepidemiology · 2023Article
- Education as a moderator of middle-age cardiovascular risk factor-old-age cognition relationships: testing cognitive reserve hypothesis in epidemiological study.Age and ageing · 2022Article
- Genetically Predicted Telomere Length and Its Relationship With Alzheimer's Disease.Frontiers in genetics · 2021Article
- Body mass index, weight change in midlife, and dementia incidence: the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study.Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)Article
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The risk of dementia seems to be established already early in life, which leads to the question if overweight early in life is an important risk factor for dementia as it appears to be later in life. We examined the association between body mass index (BMI) at entry to adult life and subsequent risk of dementia in men and assessed whether the relationship differed by levels of intelligence and education. The study population consisted of 377,598 Danish men born 1939-1959 with measures of height, weight, intelligence test score (ITS), and educational level (EL) at conscript board examinations around the age of 19 years. Dementia outcomes were obtained from National Patient and Prescription Registries between 1969 and 2016. The association between BMI and dementia was analysed using Cox proportional hazard regression including interactions between BMI and ITS and EL, respectively. During the follow-up through age 77 years, 6144 (1.6%) developed dementia. The frequency was highest in men with lowest BMI, lowest ITS and lowest EL. Young adult BMI below the mean of 21.8 kg/m
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