Autoimmune rheumatic diseases increase dementia risk in middle-aged patients: A nationwide cohort study

• Tzu-Min Lin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Wei-Sheng Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Jau-Jiuan Sheu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Department of Neurology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Yi-Hsuan Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Biostatistics Center, College of Management, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Jin-Hua Chen ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ccchang@tmu.edu.tw (CCC); jh_chen@tmu.edu.tw (JHC)

  Affiliation Biostatistics Center and School of Health Care Administration, College of Management, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chi-Ching Chang

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ccchang@tmu.edu.tw (CCC); jh_chen@tmu.edu.tw (JHC)

  Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6301-191X

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