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Chao-Ming Hung1, Ying-Chun Li2, Han-Jung Chen2,3
1Department of General Surgery, E-Da Cancer Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Background:
To investigate the association between primary insomnia and dementia using a Taiwanese population-based database.
Methods:
This case-control study involved a subset of Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database of reimbursement claims. We included 51,734 patients who were diagnosed with primary insomnia from 2002 to 2004 as the test group and 258,715 nonprimary insomnia participants aged 20 years or older as the reference group. We excluded patients under 20 and those with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and/or sleep disorders caused by organic lesion(s), drugs, or alcohol. We used a Cox proportional hazards model to assess the primary insomnia on the risk of developing dementia after adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics and comorbidities.
Results:
The primary insomnia cohort had a higher prevalence of diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, chronic liver disease, and chronic kidney disease at baseline. After adjusting for select comorbidities, primary insomnia remained a significant predisposing factor for developing dementia, and was associated with a 2.14-fold (95% confidence interval, 2.01-2.29) increase in dementia risk. We also found a higher risk of dementia in younger patients.
Conclusions:
Taiwanese patients with primary insomnia, especially those under 40, had a higher risk of developing dementia than those without primary insomnia.
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