Pre-Diagnostic Disease Prevalence and Dementia Risk in Taiwan, 2000-2013

Taiwan's population-based retrospective cohort study examines the association between the prevalence of 30 common diseases and the subsequent risk of dementia. The study uses data from 806,292 individuals in the National Health Insurance Research Database, tracking conditions from 2000 to 2013. It was authored by Yibo Li and shared on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling dementia risk based on pre-diagnostic disease prevalence mentioned in the description
• Analyzing associations between specific disease categories (e.g., respiratory infections, cancers) and dementia outcomes
• Conducting retrospective cohort analysis using odds ratios and incidence rate ratios for outpatient visits

Strengths

• Data covers 806,292 individuals from a national health insurance database
• Analysis spans a 13-year period (2000-2013) with a 10-year backtracking window per individual
• Examines associations for 30 specific common diseases

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, limiting suitability assessment
• Observational study design limits causal inference, as noted in the description
• Data is contained in a 12.8 KB DOCX file, suggesting limited raw data or a summary document

Provenance

Source

National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan

Collection Method

Retrospective matched-cohort study using conditional logistic and Negative Binomial regression

Time Range

2000 to 2013

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 05:22:10

Geography

Taiwan