Diabetes 51:1256-1262, 2002
© 2002 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc.
Type 2 Diabetes, APOE Gene, and the Risk for Dementia and Related Pathologies
The Honolulu-Asia Aging Study
Rita Peila1,
Beatriz L. Rodriguez2, and
Lenore J. Launer1
1 Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
2 Clinical Epidemiology and Geriatric Division, Department of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
Type 2 diabetes may be a risk factor for dementia, but the associated pathological mechanisms remains unclear. We evaluated the association of diabetes alone or combined with the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene with incident dementia and neuropathological outcomes in a population-based cohort of 2,574 Japanese-American men enrolled in the Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, including 216 subjects who underwent autopsy. Type 2 diabetes was ascertained by interview and direct glucose testing. Dementia was assessed in 1991 and 1994 by clinical examination and magnetic resonance imaging and was diagnosed according to international guidelines. Logistic regression was used to assess the RR of developing dementia, and log-linear regression was used to estimate the incident rate ratio (IRR) of neuropathological outcomes. Diabetes was associated with total dementia (RR 1.5 [95% CI 1.012.2]), Alzheimers disease (AD; 1.8 [1.12.9]), and vascular dementia (VsD; 2.3 [1.15.0]). Individuals with both type 2 diabetes and the APOE 4 allele had an RR of 5.5 (CI 2.213.7) for AD compared with those with neither risk factor. Participants with type 2 diabetes and the 4 allele had a higher number of hippocampal neuritic plaques (IRR 3.0 [CI 1.27.3]) and neurofibrillary tangles in the cortex (IRR 3.5 [1.67.5]) and hippocampus (IRR 2.5 [1.53.7]), and they had a higher risk of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (RR 6.6, 1.529.6). Type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for AD and VsD. The association between diabetes and AD is particularly strong among carriers of the APOE 4 allele. The neuropathological data are consistent with the clinical results.

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