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   April 11, 2016   
   Colonic Diverticular Disease May Increase Dementia Risk   
      
      
   HealthDay News -- Colonic diverticular disease appears to be associated with   
   increased risk of dementia in a population from Taiwan, according to a study   
   published online March 31 in the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.   
      
   Yen-Chun Peng, MD, from the Taichung Veterans General Hospital in Taipei,   
   Taiwan, and colleagues used data from Taiwan's National Health Insurance   
   Research Database to examine the potential increased risk for dementia in   
   colonic diverticular disease.    
   Data were included for 66 377 sex-, age-, and index year-matched patients with   
   colonic diverticular disease and 265 508 control patients without colonic   
   diverticular disease. Incident cases of dementia were identified from 2000 to   
   2011.   
       
   The researchers identified 1057 dementia cases in the diverticular disease   
   cohort during 315 171 person-years of follow-up. The overall incidence rate of   
   dementia was 3.35 per 1000 person-years in the diverticular disease cohort   
   versus 2.43 per 1000    
   person-years in the control group (P < 0.001). After adjustment for age, sex,   
   and comorbidities, the adjusted hazard ratio for dementia was 1.24 for colonic   
   diverticular disease patients.   
   "We demonstrated that diverticular disease and associated comorbidities are   
   risk factors, with joint effects, for dementia," the authors wrote. "Dementia   
   prevention may be possible by controlling risk factors at the population   
   level. Such risk factors    
   may include diverticular disease and comorbidities."   
      
   Reference   
   Peng Y, Lin C, Yeh H, Tung C, Chang C, Kao C. Diverticular disease and   
   additional comorbidities associated with increased risk of dementia. J   
   Gastroen Hepatol. 2016; doi:10.1111/jgh.13389.   
   This article originally appeared here.   
      
      
      
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