Trends in the incidence of dementia in people with hypertension in the UK 2000 to 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

We investigated trends in the incidence of dementia in UK adults with hypertension.

Methods

Primary care electronic health records from IQVIA Medical Research Data UK, previously known as THIN, were used to identify 2,133,118 adults aged ≥40 years with hypertension over 2000 to 2021. The annual incidence rate and average annual percentage change in recorded dementia diagnoses were estimated and stratified by sex, 10-year age bands, Townsend deprivation quintiles and dementia subtype.

Results

The crude incidence rate of dementia in people with hypertension increased from 1.98 (95% confidence internal [CI] 1.89-2.07) per 1000 person-years at risk (PYAR) in 2000 to 5.29 per 1000 PYAR (95% CI 5.07-5.53) in 2021, corresponding to an average annual increase of

SUBMITTER: Adesuyan M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10387744 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature