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Risk of dementia in patients with primary insomnia: a nationwide population-based case-control study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Psychiatry, February 2018
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Title
Risk of dementia in patients with primary insomnia: a nationwide population-based case-control study
Published in
BMC Psychiatry, February 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12888-018-1623-0
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Chao-Ming Hung, Ying-Chun Li, Han-Jung Chen, Kang Lu, Cheng-Loong Liang, Po-Chou Liliang, Yu-Duan Tsai, Kuo-Wei Wang

Abstract

To investigate the association between primary insomnia and dementia using a Taiwanese population-based database. 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. 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. 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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Unknown 152 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 22 14%
Student > Master 20 13%
Researcher 15 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 5%
Other 20 13%
Unknown 54 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 16%
Psychology 18 12%
Neuroscience 14 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 7%
Social Sciences 5 3%
Other 15 10%
Unknown 66 43%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 201. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 December 2023.
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#196,874
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