This study aims to evaluate the comparative risk of dementia/Alzheimer's disease onset between patients treated with medications that target specific metabolic pathways and patients treated with alternative medications for the same indication.
This is a non-randomized, non-interventional study that is part of the DREAM Study of Brigham and Women's Hospital. DREAM is led by Dr. Madhav Thambisetty, MD, PhD, Chief of the Clinical and Translational Neuroscience Section, Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging (NIA) intramural research program. This study aims to evaluate the comparative risk of dementia/Alzheimer's disease onset between patients treated with medications that target specific metabolic pathways and patients treated with alternative medications for the same indication using healthcare claims data.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
742,670
Semaglutide claim is used as the exposure group.
DPP4 inhibitors (sitagliptin, saxagliptin, linagliptin, and alogliptin) claim is used as the reference group.
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Time to Dementia Onset
Time to dementia onset, i.e., Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, senile, presenile, or unspecified dementia, or dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere. Please refer to uploaded protocol for full definition due to size limitations.
Time frame: Median follow up times: 1) 98 days (exp), 134 days (ref) 2) 118 days (exp), 132 days (ref) 3) 90 days (exp), 308 days (ref) 4) 99 days (exp), 135 days (ref)
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