Sauna bathing is inversely associated with dementia and Alzheimer's disease in middle-aged Finnish men
Laukkanen T, Kunutsor S, Kauhanen J, Laukkanen JA
Age and ageing · 93 citas
Cómo se estudió
- Diseño
- Estudio de cohortes (indexado por PubMed)
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- Personas
- Resultado principal
- Eventos clínicos como enfermedad o muerte
Quién lo pagó
- Financiación
- Financiación independiente
- Organización sin fines de lucro
- Foundation for Cardiovascular Research
- Universidad u hospital
- Itä-Suomen Yliopisto
- Organización sin fines de lucro
- Sydäntutkimussäätiö
- Universidad u hospital
- Research Institute of Public Health
- Universidad u hospital
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine
- Universidad u hospital
- University of Eastern Finland
- Organización sin fines de lucro
- Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research, Helsinki
Según 7 financiadores declarados.
Publicación
- Publicado
- 2016-11-02 · Age Ageing · vol. 46 · número 2 · págs. 245–249
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press
- Citado
- 136 citas · más que el 98% de estudios similares · 7.1× el promedio de su campo
- Impacto
- Entre el 10 % más citado de su campo
- Referencias
- 24 trabajos
- Acceso
- Lectura gratuita
- Áreas de investigación
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses · Therapeutic Uses of Natural Elements · Skin Protection and Aging
- Palabras clave
- Medicine, Hazard ratio, Dementia, Interquartile range, Prospective cohort study, Internal medicine, Body mass index, Population, Proportional hazards model, Alzheimer's disease, Bathing, Cohort study, Diabetes mellitus, Confidence interval, Surgery, Disease, Endocrinology, Pathology
- MeSH
- humans, dementia, alzheimer disease, steam bath, proportional hazards models, risk factors, prospective studies, age factors, sex factors, time factors, adult, middle aged, finland, male, protective factors
4 autores
- Tanjaniina Laukkanen🇫🇮 · autor de correspondenciaUniversity of Eastern Finland
- Setor K. Kunutsor🇬🇧University of Bristol
- Jussi Kauhanen🇫🇮University of Eastern Finland
- Jari A. Laukkanen🇫🇮University of Eastern Finland
Resumen
El texto original del estudio, en el idioma en que se publicó.
Background
there are no previous studies linking repeated heat exposure of sauna and the risk of memory diseases. We aimed to investigate whether frequency of sauna bathing is associated with risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Setting
prospective population-based study.
Methods
the frequency of sauna bathing was assessed at baseline in the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease population-based prospective cohort study of 2,315 apparently healthy men aged 42-60 years at baseline, with baseline examinations conducted between 1984 and 1989. Hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for dementia and Alzheimer's disease were ascertained using Cox-regression modelling with adjustment for potential confounders.
Results
during a median follow-up of 20.7 (interquartile range 18.1-22.6) years, a total of 204 and 123 diagnosed cases of dementia and Alzheimer's disease were respectively recorded. In analysis adjusted for age, alcohol consumption, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, smoking status, Type 2 diabetes, previous myocardial infarction, resting heart rate and serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, compared with men with only 1 sauna bathing session per week, the HR for dementia was 0.78 (95% CI: 0.57-1.06) for 2-3 sauna bathing sessions per week and 0.34 (95% CI: 0.16-0.71) for 4-7 sauna bathing sessions per week. The corresponding HRs for Alzheimer's disease were 0.80 (95% CI: 0.53-1.20) and 0.35 (95% CI: 0.14-0.90).
Conclusion
in this male population, moderate to high frequency of sauna bathing was associated with lowered risks of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Further studies are warranted to establish the potential mechanisms linking sauna bathing and memory diseases.
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