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Published in final edited form as: Eur J Epidemiol. 2023 Aug 27;38(10):1069–1079. doi: 10.1007/s10654-023-01036-x

Table 4:

Incident all-cause dementia, AD, and vascular dementia during five time periods after cancer diagnosis

Outcome No. of events
/person-yearsa
HR 95% CI HR 95% CI HR 95% CI
Model 1b Model 2c Model 3d
All-cause dementia
No cancer 2,640/1,432,923 1.00 ref. 1.00 ref. 1.00 ref.
0-1 years 65/16,960 1.83 1.42-2.35 1.80 1.40-2.31 1.83 1.42-2.36
1-5 years 147/60,253 1.04 0.88-1.24 1.03 0.87-1.22 1.03 0.87-1.23
5-10 years 163/57,353 1.10 0.93-1.29 1.06 0.90-1.25 1.04 0.88-1.23
10-20 years 190/63,426 1.10 0.95-1.28 1.04 0.90-1.21 1.04 0.89-1.22
>20 years 105/40,991 1.06 0.87-1.29 1.03 0.84-1.26 1.06 0.87-1.30
AD dementia
No cancer 1,222/1,437,116 1.00 ref. 1.00 ref. 1.00 ref.
0-1 years 35/17,018 2.22 1.57-3.12 2.18 1.55-3.08 2.16 1.52-3.08
1-5 years 57/60,454 0.88 0.68-1.16 0.88 0.67-1.15 0.87 0.66-1.15
5-10 years 64/57,600 0.94 0.73-1.21 0.92 0.71-1.19 0.91 0.70-1.18
10-20 years 78/63,710 0.91 0.72-1.16 0.88 0.70-1.12 0.88 0.69-1.13
>20 years 52/41,172 1.06 0.80-1.41 1.04 0.78-1.38 1.09 0.82-1.46
Vascular dementia
No cancer 664 /1,438,617 1.00 ref. 1.00 ref. 1.00 ref.
0-1 years 17/17,036 1.98 1.22-3.21 1.96 1.21-3.18 2.10 1.29-3.41
1-5 years 38/60,554 1.10 0.79-1.52 1.08 0.78-1.50 1.13 0.81-1.57
5-10 years 55/57,664 1.41 1.07-1.87 1.37 1.03-1.81 1.31 0.98-1.76
10-20 years 43/63,830 0.98 0.72-1.34 0.93 0.68-1.27 0.97 0.71-1.34
>20 years 33/41,209 1.26 0.87-1.83 1.22 0.84-1.78 1.28 0.87-1.87

Abbreviations: AD, Alzheimer’s disease; CI, confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio.

a

Number of dementia cases divided by follow-up time (person-years) in the cancer group.

b

Adjusted for sex, race, and the presence of the APOE-ε4 allele, stratified by assessment center.

c

Further adjusted for education, Townsend deprivation index, and the number of clinic visits.

d

Further adjusted for BMI, ever used alcohol, physical activity, diabetes, and stroke, further stratified by ever smoked.