Abstract:Introduction:
Diabetes is associated with both dementia and death. Ignoring the competing risk of mortality may result in overestimation of the lifetime of dementia.
Hypothesis:
The lifetime cumulative incidence of dementia associated with diabetes will be much lower when taking into account the competing risk of mortality, particularly at the oldest ages.
Methods:
We conducted a prospective cohort analysis … Show more
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