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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of UKB participants by dementia status (N = 375,894)

From: Immune-mediated diseases are associated with a higher incidence of dementia: a prospective cohort study of 375,894 individuals

 

No incident dementia (N = 370,603)

Incident ACD (N = 5291)

Incident AD (N = 2301)

Incident VD (N = 1249)

Age, years

57.22 (7.98)

64.35 (4.75)

64.75 (4.21)

64.81 (4.27)

Female, n (%)

203,123 (54.81)

2452 (46.34)

1186 (51.54)

501 (40.11)

ApoE ε4 carriers, n (%)

89,731 (24.21)

2374 (44.87)

1240 (53.89)

525 (42.03)

Higher education, n (%)

130,207 (35.13)

1336 (25.25)

555 (24.12)

260 (20.82)

Ethnicity_White, n (%)

349,469 (94.30)

5003 (94.56)

2199 (95.57)

1179 (94.40)

BMI, kg/m2

27.69 (4.91)

27.92 (5.05)

27.40 (4.77)

28.68 (5.23)

Townsend deprivation score

-1.24 (3.12)

-0.82 (3.37)

-1.02 (3.28)

-0.66 (3.46)

Smoking

 Never, n (%)

194,964 (52.61)

2363 (44.66)

1080 (46.94)

505 (40.43)

 Previous, n (%)

132,625 (35.79)

2266 (42.83)

979 (42.55)

572 (45.80)

 Current, n (%)

40,753 (11.00)

597 (11.28)

213 (9.26)

152 (12.17)

Alcohol consumption

 Never, n (%)

17,008 (4.59)

382 (7.22)

177 (7.69)

85 (6.81)

 Previous, n (%)

14,526 (3.92)

399 (7.54)

149 (6.48)

118 (9.45)

 Current, n (%)

337,832 (91.16)

4471 (84.50)

1960 (85.18)

1037 (83.03)

Immune-mediated diseases

 None, n (%)

313,216 (84.52)

4089 (77.28)

1835 (79.75)

909 (72.78)

 Any, n (%)

57,387 (15.48)

1202 (22.72)

466 (20.25)

340 (27.22)

  1. Data presented as mean (SD) for continuous variables and number (%) for categorical variables. Higher education refers to college/university/other professional qualification
  2. ACD All-cause dementia, AD Alzheimer’s disease, VD Vascular dementia, BMI Body mass index