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Hospital-treated infectious diseases and the risk of dementia: multicohort study with replication in the UK Biobank

2020-04-24

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<h4>Summary</h4> <h4>Background</h4> Infectious diseases have been hypothesised to increase the risk of dementia. However, the evidence is sparse, captures only a limited range of infectious diseases, and relies on short follow-up periods. We assessed a wide range of severe (hospital-treated) bacterial and viral infections and their subtypes as risk factors for dementia in three large cohorts followed up for almos...

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Literature Corpus work: ba9babe9-562a-576e-977b-ea017ed87623
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.20.20072355

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