Table 3.
Subgroup analyses of crude and adjusted ORs (95% CI) of asthma in dementia participants according to age and sex
| Characteristics | Asthma | |||
| Crude*‡ | P value | Adjusted*†‡ | P value | |
| Age <80-year-old men (n=12 455) | ||||
| Dementia | 0.95 (0.85 to 1.06) | 0.361 | 0.88 (0.78 to 1.00) | 0.050 |
| Control | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Age <80-year-old women (n=23 410) | ||||
| Dementia | 1.05 (0.97 to 1.13) | 0.197 | 1.01 (0.93 to 1.09) | 0.882 |
| Control | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Age ≥80-year-old men (n=5860) | ||||
| Dementia | 0.98 (0.85 to 1.14) | 0.818 | 0.95 (0.81 to 1.12) | 0.523 |
| Control | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Age ≥80-year-old women (n=15 485) | ||||
| Dementia | 1.02 (0.93 to 1.13) | 0.641 | 0.98 (0.89 to 1.09) | 0.735 |
| Control | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
*Model stratified for age, sex, income, region of residence, hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia histories.
†Model adjusted for ischaemic heart disease, cerebral stroke, depression and COPD histories.
‡Conditional logistic regression analyses. Significance at p<0.05.
COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.