Midlife vascular risk factors and the risk of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Abstract
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE
We examine whether midlife vascular risk factors (VRFs) are associated with increased risk of incident Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a systematic review and meta-analysis of published cohort studies.METHODS
Original cohort studies were included if they reported adjusted combined odds ratio (COR) and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) or enough information to quantify the association between risk for AD in late-life and baseline VRFs of midlife.RESULTS
There were positive and significant associations between high blood pressure (COR 1.31; 95% CI: 1.01-1.70), hypercholesterolemia (COR 1.72; 95% CI: 1.32-2.24), obesity (COR 1.88; 95% CI: 1.32-2.69), and diabetes mellitus in midlife (COR 1.4; 95% CI: 1.25-1.57). Smoking and hyperhomocysteinemia (although only one high-quality paper) were also associated with an increased risk of AD generally.CONCLUSIONS
These results strengthen the epidemiological evidence that VRFs of midlife significantly increase risk for AD.Links
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,Department of Neurology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, School of Medicine, Qingdao University, China.
,Department of Neurology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, School of Medicine, Qingdao University, China Department of Neurology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, China Department of Neurology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, College of Medicine and Pharmaceutics, Ocean University of China, China.
,Department of Neurology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, China.
,Department of Neurology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, College of Medicine and Pharmaceutics, Ocean University of China, China.
,Department of Neurology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, School of Medicine, Qingdao University, China.
,Department of Neurology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, School of Medicine, Qingdao University, China.
Department of Neurology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, School of Medicine, Qingdao University, China Department of Neurology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, China Department of Neurology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, College of Medicine and Pharmaceutics, Ocean University of China, China.
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MeSH
Alzheimer DiseaseCerebrovascular Disorders
Humans
Middle Aged
Risk Factors
Pub Type(s)
Journal ArticleMeta-Analysis
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Systematic Review
Language
eng
PubMed ID
25024338