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Smoking and Obesity as Risk Factors in Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: The HUNT Study
Hege Rasmussen Eid1,2, Tor Atle Rosness3, Ole Bosnes1
1Clinic for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Namsos Hospital, North-Trøndelag Hospital Trust, Namsos, Norway.
Background:
Few studies have assessed smoking and obesity together as risk factors for frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Objective:
To study smoking and obesity as risk factors for FTD and AD.
Methods:
Ninety patients with FTD and 654 patients with AD were compared with 116 cognitively healthy elderly individuals in a longitudinal design with 15-31 years between measurements of risk factors before the dementia diagnosis.
Results:
There were no associations between smoking and FTD (p = 0.218; odds ratio [OR]: 0.990; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.975-1.006). There were significant associations between obesity and FTD (p = 0.049; OR: 2.629; 95% CI: 1.003-6.894). There were significant associations between both smoking (p = 0.014; OR: 0.987; 95% CI: 0.977-0.997) and obesity (p = 0.015; OR: 2.679; 95% CI: 1.211-5.928) and AD.
Conclusion:
Our findings suggest that obesity is a shared risk factor for FTD and AD, while smoking plays various roles as a risk factor for FTD and AD.