Type 2 Diabetes as a Risk Factor for Dementia in Women Compared With Men: A Pooled Analysis of 2.3 Million People Comprising More Than 100,000 Cases of Dementia

Chatterjee, S.; Peters, S.; Woodward, M.; Mejía Arango, Silvia; Batty, G.; Beckett, N.; Beiser, A.; Borenstein, A.; Crane, P.; Haan, M.; Hassing, L.; Hayden, K.; Kiyohara, Y.; Larson, E.; Li, Chung-Yi; Ninomiya, T.; Ohara, T.; Peters, R.; C. Russ, Tom; Seshadri, S.; Strand, B.; L. Walker, Rod; Xu, Weili; Huxley, R.

doi:10.2337/dc15-1588

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Type 2 Diabetes as a Risk Factor for Dementia in Women Compared With Men: A Pooled Analysis of 2.3 Million People Comprising More Than 100,000 Cases of Dementia

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S. Chatterjee

S. Peters

M. Woodward

Abstract

OBJECTIVE Type 2 diabetes confers a greater excess risk of cardiovascular disease in women than in men. Diabetes is also a risk factor for dementia, but whether the association is similar in women and men remains unknown. We performed a meta-analysis of unpublished data to estimate the sex-specific ...

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Medicine

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