Table 3.
Association of age, sex, dementia types, and cognitive impairment with number of health conditions
| Number of health conditions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mean intercept (rate ratio, 95% CI) | Mean slope (rate ratio, 95% CI) | |
| Sex (reference: male) | ||
| Female | 0.91 (0.84, 1.00) | 1.00 (0.94, 1.06) |
| Age group (reference: < 65 years) | ||
| 65-69 | 1.07 (0.89, 1.30) | 0.96 (0.82, 1.12) |
| 70-74 | 1.07 (0.90, 1.30) | 0.98 (0.85, 1.13) |
| 75-79 | 1.17 (0.98, 1.40) | 0.98 (0.85, 1.13) |
| ≥ 80 | 1.25 (1.05, 1.48) | 0.99 (0.87, 1.12) |
| Dementia type (reference: Alzheimer’s disease) | ||
| Vascular dementia | 1.79 (1.55, 2.03) | 0.98 (0.89, 1.07) |
| Mixed (Alzheimer’s and vascular) | 1.49 (1.34, 1.67) | 0.99 (0.92, 1.07) |
| Frontotemporal dementia | 0.09 (0.70, 1.16) | 1.11 (0.91, 1.34) |
| Parkinson’s disease dementia | 1.08 (0.84, 1.40) | 0.99 (0.79, 1.23) |
| Dementia with Lewy bodies | 1.02 (0.80, 1.30) | 0.99 (0.82, 1.21) |
| Unspecified/other dementia | 1.00 (0.76, 1.32) | 0.96 (0.77, 1.21) |
| Cognition (Mini-Mental State Examination) | 1.01 (1.00, 1.03) | 1.00 (0.99, 1.01) |