Prolonged or serious conflicts at work and incident dementia: a 23-year follow-up of the Copenhagen City Heart Study

Kazi Ishtiak-Ahmed; Åse Marie Hansen; Erik Lykke Mortensen; Anne Helene Garde; Ane Nørgaard; Finn Gyntelberg; Naja Hulvej Rod; Sabrina Islamoska; Rikke Lund; Thien Kieu Thi Phung; Eva Prescott; Gunhild Waldemar; Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen

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Prolonged or serious conflicts at work and incident dementia: a 23-year follow-up of the Copenhagen City Heart Study

Kazi Ishtiak-Ahmed, Åse Marie Hansen, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Anne Helene Garde, Ane Nørgaard, Finn Gyntelberg, Naja Hulvej Rod, Sabrina Islamoska, Rikke Lund, Thien Kieu Thi Phung, Eva Prescott, Gunhild Waldemar, Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen

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PURPOSE: Only a few studies have investigated the impact of negative aspects of social relations on cognitive function, and they have shown mixed results. Conflicts at work are part of the negative aspects of social relations, but the impact of experiencing conflicts at work has not yet been investigated as a risk factor for dementia. Therefore, we investigated whether experiencing prolonged or serious conflicts with a supervisor or colleagues at work was associated with incident dementia in old age.

METHODS: We analyzed data of 6,436 men and women from the third survey of the Copenhagen City Heart Study. At baseline in 1991-1994, the participants reported whether they had ever had a prolonged or serious conflict at work. The participants were followed until 2014. We used Poisson regression to estimate incidence rate ratios (IRR) and their 95% confidence intervals (CI).

RESULTS: After adjusting for potential confounders, the IRR for dementia was 1.53 (95% CI 0.77-3.03) among participants who had reported having prolonged or serious conflicts both with a supervisor and colleagues compared with participants who had never had such conflicts. In separate analyses stratified by sex, the IRRs were 2.14 (95% Cl 0.97-4.71) for men and 0.98 (95% Cl 0.29-3.32) for women.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings did not support an overall association between experiencing prolonged or serious conflicts at work and incident dementia. However, because of the large differences in the point estimates for men and women, future research could aim at investigating potential sex differences regarding the association between conflicts at work and dementia.

Original language	English
Journal	International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
Volume	92
Pages (from-to)	165-173
Number of pages	9
ISSN	0340-0131
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-018-1365-9
Publication status	Published - 3 Feb 2019

Keywords

Alzheimer’s
Cohort study
Midlife risk factors
Negative aspects of social relations
Psychosocial work factors
Social relations

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Ishtiak-Ahmed, K., Hansen, Å. M., Mortensen, E. L., Garde, A. H., Nørgaard, A., Gyntelberg, F., Rod, N. H., Islamoska, S., Lund, R., Phung, T. K. T., Prescott, E., Waldemar, G., & Nabe-Nielsen, K. (2019). Prolonged or serious conflicts at work and incident dementia: a 23-year follow-up of the Copenhagen City Heart Study. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 92, 165-173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-018-1365-9

Prolonged or serious conflicts at work and incident dementia : a 23-year follow-up of the Copenhagen City Heart Study. / Ishtiak-Ahmed, Kazi; Hansen, Åse Marie ; Mortensen, Erik Lykke et al.

In: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, Vol. 92, 03.02.2019, p. 165-173.

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Ishtiak-Ahmed, K, Hansen, ÅM , Mortensen, EL, Garde, AH, Nørgaard, A, Gyntelberg, F, Rod, NH, Islamoska, S, Lund, R, Phung, TKT, Prescott, E , Waldemar, G & Nabe-Nielsen, K 2019, 'Prolonged or serious conflicts at work and incident dementia: a 23-year follow-up of the Copenhagen City Heart Study', International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, vol. 92, pp. 165-173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-018-1365-9

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