DALLAS: Researchers found an elevated risk of dementia after adjustment for age, sex, and comorbidities.
Colonic diverticular disease appears to be associated with increased risk of dementia in a population from Taiwan, according to a study.
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.