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Associations between specific autoimmune diseases and subsequent dementia: retrospective record-linkage cohort study, UK
1 Mar 2017
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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether hospital admission for autoimmune disease is associated with an elevated risk of future admission for dementia. METHODS: Retrospective, record-linkage cohort study using national hospital care and mortality administrative data, 1999-2012. Cohorts of people admitted to hospital with a range of autoimmune diseases were constructed, along with a control cohort, and followed forward in...
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