Yen-Chun Peng, MD, from Taichung Veterans General Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, and colleagues examined 66,377 patients with colonic diverticular disease and 265,508 control patients without colonic diverticular disease. Incident cases of dementia were identified from 2000 to 2011.
Here are three points:
1. The researchers identified 1,057 dementia cases in the diverticular disease cohort during the study period and follow-up.
2. The overall incidence rate of dementia was 3.35 in the diverticular disease cohort versus 2.43 in the control group.
3. After adjustment for age, sex and comorbidities, the adjusted hazard ratio for dementia was 1.24 for colonic diverticular disease patients.
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