Authors:	Labenz, Christian Kostev, Karel Kaps, Leonard Galle, Peter R. Schattenberg, Jörn M.
Title:	Incident dementia in elderly patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in Germany
Online publication date:	26-Aug-2021
Year of first publication:	2021
Language:	english
Abstract:	Dementia and NAFLD are two frequent conditions that share underlying risk factors mainly in the realm of metabolic disease. Additionally, an association between NAFLD and brain aging has been proposed. Therefore, we investigated the hypothesis if NAFLD is an independent risk factor for emerging dementia. In this population-based cohort study, elderly patients (≥ 65 years) with NAFLD diagnosed between 2000 and 2015 were matched 1:1 to a cohort without NAFLD based on ICD-10 coding in the Disease Analyzer database. Matching criteria were age, sex, physician, index year, and co-diagnoses associated with dementia. The primary outcomes of this study were all-cause dementia diagnoses, the incidence of vascular dementia, and antidementive drug prescription. A total of 22,317 patients with NAFLD were matched to 22,317 patients without NAFLD. Within 10 years of the index date, 16.0% of patients with NAFLD and 15.6% of the patients without NAFLD were diagnosed with dementia. On Cox regression analysis, there is no association between NAFLD and the incidence of all-cause dementia (HR 0.97, 95% CI 0.92–1.04), vascular dementia (HR 0.89, 95% CI 0.78–1.02), or the new prescription of antidementive therapy (HR 0.87, 95% CI 0.76–1.01). In sensitivity analyses, there was no association between NAFLD and dementia in different age-groups as well as men or women. In conclusion, in this database study of elderly patients coded with NAFLD no independent association with incident dementia was detected. Risk assessment regarding dementia in patients with NAFLD should be carried out in the same way as for metabolic burdened patients.
DDC:	610 Medizin 610 Medical sciences
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 04 Medizin
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-5827
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
License:	CC BY-NC
Information on rights of use:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Journal:	Digestive diseases and sciences 66
Pages or article number:	3179 3185
Publisher:	Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
Publisher place:	Dordrecht
Issue date:	2021
ISSN:	1573-2568
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-020-06644-1
Publisher DOI:	10.1007/s10620-020-06644-1
Appears in collections:	JGU-Publikationen