A nationwide study of the long-term prevalence of dementia and its risk factors in the Swedish intensive care cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Developing dementia is feared by many for its detrimental effects on cognition and independence. Experimental and clinical evidence suggests that sepsis is a risk factor for the later development of dementia. We aimed to investigate whether intensive care-treated sepsis is an independent risk factor for a later diagnosis of dementia in a large cohort of intensive care unit (ICU) patients.

Methods

We identified adult patients admitted to an ICU in 2005 to 2015 and who survived without a dementia diagnosis 1 year after intensive care admission using the Swedish Intensive Care Registry, collecting data from all Swedish general ICUs. Comorbidity, the diagnosis of dementia and mortality, was retrieved from the Swedish National Patient Registry, the Swedish Dementia Reg

SUBMITTER: Ahlstrom B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7472680 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature