Hospital-treated mental and behavioral disorders and risk of Alzheimer's disease: A nationwide nested case-control study
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Tapiainen V. Hartikainen S. Taipale H. Tiihonen J. Tolppanen A-M. (2017). Hospital-treated mental and behavioral disorders and risk of Alzheimer's disease: A nationwide nested case-control study. EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRY: THE JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRISTS;, 43 (Volume 43, June 2017) , 92-98. 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.02.486.Rights
Abstract
Background
Studies investigating psychiatric disorders as Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk factors have yielded heterogeneous findings. Differences in time windows between the exposure and outcome could be one explanation. We examined whether (1) mental and behavioral disorders in general or (2) specific mental and behavioral disorder categories increase the risk of AD and (3) how the width of the time window between the exposure and outcome affects the results.
Methods
A nationwide nested case-control study of all Finnish clinically verified AD cases, alive in 2005 and their age, sex and region of residence matched controls (n of case-control pairs 27,948). History of hospital-treated mental and behavioral disorders was available since 1972.
Results
Altogether 6.9% (n = 1932) of the AD cases and 6.4% (n = 1784) of controls had a history of any mental and behavioral disorder. Having any mental and behavioral disorder (adjusted OR = 1.07, 95% CI = 1.00–1.16) or depression/other mood disorder (adjusted OR = 1.17, 95% CI = 1.05–1.30) were associated with higher risk of AD with 5-year time window but not with 10-year time window (adjusted OR, 95% CI 0.99, 0.91–1.08 for any disorder and 1.08, 0.96–1.23 for depression).
Conclusions
The associations between mental and behavioral disorders and AD were modest and dependent on the time window. Therefore, some of the disorders may represent misdiagnosed prodromal symptoms of AD, which underlines the importance of proper differential diagnostics among older persons. These findings also highlight the importance of appropriate time window in psychiatric and neuroepidemiology research.
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