Table 5.

History of cancer and the risk of non-dementia diagnoses in a national veteran cohort (N=3,499,378)

	Hazard ratio (95% CI)*
Cancer type	Stroke (n=214, 283)	Osteoarthritis (n=626,514)	Macular degeneration (n=365,430)
Any cancer	1.34 (1.32–1.36)	1.31 (1.29–1.32)	1.37 (1.36–1.39)
Prostate	1.08 (1.05–1.10)	1.20 (1.18–1.21)	1.16 (1.14–1.19)
Lung	1.68 (1.61–1.76)	1.42 (1.38–1.46)	1.48 (1.42–1.53)
Colorectal	1.21 (1.17–1.26)	1.11 (1.08–1.14)	1.23 (1.19–1.27)
Bladder	1.35 (1.29–1.41)	1.24 (1.20–1.28)	1.41 (1.37–1.46)
Head and neck	1.39 (1.32–1.47)	1.18 (1.14–1.22)	1.41 (1.35–1.47)
Melanoma	1.25 (1.18–1.33)	1.30 (1.25–1.34)	1.43 (1.37–1.49)
Lymphoma	1.18 (1.10–1.27)	1.15 (1.10–1.20)	1.17 (1.11–1.24)
Renal	1.40 (1.29–1.52)	1.38 (1.31–1.45)	1.44 (1.35–1.53)

^*Adjusted for sex, number of clinic visits in year prior to baseline, follow-up time, cancer treatment, high cholesterol, hypertension, obesity, coronary arterial disease, diabetes, stroke, race and confidence interval with Bonferroni Correction. Statistically significant associations are marked in bold.