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Endocrine Abstracts (2019) 63 GP45 | DOI: 10.1530/endoabs.63.GP45

ECE2019 Guided Posters Metabolic Syndrome and Hypoglycaemia (11 abstracts)

Hypoglycemia and dementia risk in older patients with type 2 diabetes: a propensity-score matched analysis of a population-based cohort study

Seung Jin Han 1 , Young-Gun Kim 2 & So Young Moon 1


1Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea; 2Ajou University Graduate School, Suwon, Republic of Korea.


Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with an increased risk for dementia. The effects of hypoglycemia on dementia are controversial. Thus, we evaluated whether hypoglycemia increases the risk for dementia in senior patients with T2DM.

Methods: We used the Korean National Health Insurance Service Senior cohort, which includes >10% of the entire senior population of South Korea. In total, 7,752 patients who had ever experienced hypoglycemia were matched with those who had not, using propensity score matching. Forty-eight confounding variables, including age, socioeconomic status, medication use, and underlying diseases, which may affect dementia, were corrected for propensity score matching. The risk of dementia was assessed through a survival analysis of matched pairs.

Results: Patients with underlying hypoglycemic events had an increased risk for all-cause dementia, Alzheimer’s dementia (AD), and vascular dementia (VaD) compared with those who had not experienced a hypoglycemic event (hazard ratio [HR] 1.254, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.166–1.349, P<0.001 for all-cause dementia; HR 1.264, 95% CI 1.162–1.375, P<0.001 for AD; HR 1.286, 95% CI 1.110–1.490, P<0.001 for VaD). In the subgroup analysis, hypoglycemia was associated with an increased risk for dementia in both sexes with or without T2DM microvascular or macrovascular complications.

Conclusions: Our findings suggest that patients with a history of hypoglycemia have a higher risk for dementia. This trend was similar for AD and VaD, the two most important subtypes of dementia.

Volume 63

21st European Congress of Endocrinology

Lyon, France
18 May 2019 - 21 May 2019

European Society of Endocrinology 

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