Relationship between alcohol consumption and dementia with Mendelian randomization approaches among older adults in the United States.
medRxiv
; 2023 Dec 22.
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ABSTRACT
Background:
In observational studies, the association between alcohol consumption and dementia is mixed.Methods:
We performed two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) using summary statistics from genome-wide association studies of weekly alcohol consumption and late-onset Alzheimer's disease and one-sample MR in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), wave 2012. Inverse variance weighted two-stage regression provided odds ratios of association between alcohol exposure and dementia or cognitively impaired, non-dementia relative to cognitively normal.Results:
Alcohol consumption was not associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease using two-sample MR (OR=1.15, 95% confidence interval (CI)[0.78, 1.72]). In HRS, doubling weekly alcohol consumption was not associated with dementia (African ancestries, n=1,322, OR=1.00, 95% CI [0.45, 2.25]; European ancestries, n=7,160, OR=1.37, 95% CI [0.53, 3.51]) or cognitively impaired, non-dementia (African ancestries, n=1,322, OR=1.17, 95% CI [0.69, 1.98]; European ancestries, n=7,160, OR=0.75, 95% CI [0.47, 1.22]).Conclusion:
Alcohol consumption was not associated with cognitively impaired, non-dementia or dementia status.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
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Clinical_trials
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Observational_studies
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MedRxiv
Año:
2023
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Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos