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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 18.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Neurol. 2017 Feb 1;74(2):225–232. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.3783

Table 3.

Incidence of AD Associated With High vs Low Exposure to Statinsa

Statin Type Hazard Ratio (95% CI)
All P Value White P Value Hispanic P Value Black P Value
Women
All 0.85 (0.82–0.89) <.001 0.86 (0.82–0.89) <.001 0.88 (0.77–1.01) .06 0.82 (0.73–0.92) <.001
Simvastatin 0.85 (0.81–0.90) <.001 0.86 (0.81–0.92) <.001 0.82 (0.68–0.99) .04 0.78 (0.66–0.93) .01
Atorvastatin 0.82 (0.77–0.87) <.001 0.84 (0.78–0.89) <.001 0.76 (0.60–0.97) .02 0.81 (0.67–0.98) .03
Pravastatin 0.82 (0.71–0.95) .01 0.82 (0.70–0.95) .01 0.82 (0.48–1.39) .46 0.76 (0.43–1.32) .33
Rosuvastatin 0.83 (0.70–0.97) .02 0.81 (0.67–0.98) .03 1.17 (0.78–1.75) .44 0.67 (0.36–1.26) .22
Men
All 0.88 (0.83–0.93) <.001 0.89 (0.84–0.95) <.001 0.71 (0.58–0.88) .001 0.86 (0.69–1.07) .18
Simvastatin 0.87 (0.80–0.94) .001 0.90 (0.82–0.99) .02 0.67 (0.50–0.91) .01 0.77 (0.55–1.07) .12
Atorvastatin 0.90 (0.82–0.99) .02 0.92 (0.83–1.02) .11 0.61 (0.42–0.89) .01 0.92 (0.63–1.33) .64
Pravastatin 0.78 (0.63–0.97) .03 0.82 (0.65–1.04) .11 0.75 (0.29–1.89) .54 0.70 (0.25–1.95) .50
Rosuvastatin 0.90 (0.70–1.16) .40 0.88 (0.66–1.17) .38 1.00 (0.51–1.97) .99 1.53 (0.54–4.33) .42

Abbreviation: AD, Alzheimer disease.

a

Hazard ratios depicting relative risk of AD incidence during 2009 to 2013 for those with high exposure to statins, compared with low exposure. High-exposure individuals are those with days of filled prescriptions in at least the 50th percentile of days in the mean statin-year in at least 2 years of 2006, 2007, and 2008. The low-exposure group used the designated statin, but for fewer days, or later in the sample period.