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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Abner, Erin L.a; b; * | Nelson, Peter T.b; c | Jicha, Gregory A.b; d | Cooper, Gregory E.b; e | Fardo, David W.b; f | Schmitt, Frederick A.b; d | Kryscio, Richard J.b; g
Affiliations: [a] Department of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA | [b] Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA | [c] Department of Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA | [d] Department of Neurology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA | [e] Baptist Neurology Center, Lexington, KY, USA | [f] Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA | [g] Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: Erin L. Abner, PhD, MPH, 111 Washington Ave., Suite 213, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40515, USA. Tel.: +1 859 218 0375; E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: Tobacco smoking was examined as a risk for dementia and neuropathological burden in 531 initially cognitively normal older adults followed longitudinally at the University of Kentucky’s Alzheimer’s Disease Center. The cohort was followed for an average of 11.5 years; 111 (20.9%) participants were diagnosed with dementia, while 242 (45.6%) died without dementia. At baseline, 49 (9.2%) participants reported current smoking (median pack-years = 47.3) and 231 (43.5%) former smoking (median pack-years = 24.5). The hazard ratio (HR) for dementia for former smokers versus never smokers based on the Cox model was 1.64 (95% CI: 1.09, 2.46), while the HR for current smokers versus never smokers was 1.20 (0.50, 2.87). However, the Fine-Gray model, which accounts for the competing risk of death without dementia, yielded a subdistribution hazard ratio (sHR) = 1.21 (0.81, 1.80) for former and 0.70 (0.30, 1.64) for current smokers. In contrast, current smoking increased incidence of death without dementia (sHR = 2.38; 1.52, 3.72). All analyses were adjusted for baseline age, education, sex, diabetes, head injury, hypertension, overweight, APOE ɛ4, family history of dementia, and use of hormone replacement therapy. Once adjusted for the competing risk of death without dementia, smoking was not associated with incident dementia. This finding was supported by neuropathology on 302 of the participants.
Keywords: Competing risks, dementia, dementia free death, lifetime smoking
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-181119
Journal: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 625-633, 2019
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