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Current alcohol consumption and its relationship to incident dementia
— results from a 3-year follow-up study among primary care attenders aged 75 years and older | | Author(s) | Siegfried Weyerer, Martina Schaufele, Birgitt Wiese |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 40, no 4, July 2011 |
| Pages | pp 456-463 |
| Source | http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/ http://www.bgs.org.uk/ |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Alcoholic beverages ; Alcoholism ; Over 70s ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | The study aimed to investigate prospectively the relationship between consumption of different alcoholic beverages and overall dementia including Alzheimer's disease. The study was based on individuals aged 75 and older attending general practitioners in Germany. 3,202 subjects free of dementia were studied at baseline, 1.5 years and 3 years later by means of structured clinical interviews including detailed assessment of current alcohol consumption and DSM-IV dementia diagnoses. Associations between alcohol consumption (in grams of ethanol), type of alcohol (wine, beer, mixed alcohol beverages) and incident dementia were examined using Cox proportional hazard models, controlling for several confounders. Incident overall dementia occurred in 217 of 3,202 participants over a mean follow-up period of 3 years. Significant relationships were found between alcohol consumption and incident overall dementia as well as Alzheimer dementia. With regard to quantity of alcohol and type of alcohol, all hazard ratios were found to be lower than 1. The study suggests that light-to-moderate alcohol consumption is inversely related to incident dementia among individuals aged 75 years and older. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110922005 A |
| Classmark | EA: YPP: ETA: BBK: 3J |
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