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Volume 6, Issue 5(Suppl) Epidemiology (Sunnyvale)
ISSN: 2161-1165 ECR, Open Access
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Epidemiology 2016
October 3-5, 2016
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Epidemiology & Public HealthOctober 3-5, 2016|London, UK
4th International Conference on
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FISH CONSUMPTION AND RISK OF DEMENTIA: A
SYSTEMATIC WORLDWIDE LITERATURE REVIEWAND A NEW STUDY FROM CHINA
Ruoling Chena,b, Aishat Bakrea, Harry HX Wangc,d and Li Weie
aCentre for Health and Social Care Improvement (CHSCI), UK
bUniversity of Wolverhampton, UK
cSun Yat-Sen University, China
dUniversity of Glasgow, UK
eUniversity College London, UK
The aim of this presentation is to assess the association of eating fish with risk of dementia by a systematic literature review
and a new study. We examined a random sample of 6981 participants aged ≥60 years in China for health survey in 2007-
2011. After adjustment for age, sex, province, urban-rural areas, education, smoking and stroke, odds ratio (OR) for dementia
in 5453 participants (dementia rate 4.33%) who had any fish consumption over the past 2 years was 0.73 (95% CI 0.64-0.99)
in comparison to 1528 never eating fish (dementia rate 5.89%). Adjusted OR was 0.79 (0.49-1.29) in participants eating fish
once a week, 0.59 (0.38-0.90) in eating fish more than twice a week, and 0.76 (0.55-1.04) in eating ≥daily. Searching Medline
and 4 other electronic databases up to February 2016 we identified and 11 articles for review. Two of 11 articles did not include
data on the association, while 9 others included 15 studied populations; 4 demonstrated a significant association of fish eating
(or high verse low consumptions) with reduced risk of dementia (around 20% to 66%), 9 showed a non-statistically reduced
risk, and 2 exhibited no association (or increased risk). Pooled data from 16 studied populations, including the older Chinese
showed a relative risk (RR) of dementia in people eating, fishing was 0.80 (0.73-0.87). Pooled dose-response data showed a
RR of 0.85 (0.73-0.98), 0.79 (0.72-0.86) and 0.73 (0.59-0.92) from low, middle to high consumption of fish. Increasing fish
consumption in the population may help prevent dementia in the world.
Biography
Ruoling Chen joined in the University of Wolverhampton, UK as a Reader in Epidemiology and Public Health and Epidemiology in 2009. He was awarded his PhD
from the University of Aberdeen in 1997, after studying medicine and medical statistics in China. His research areas and expertise include epidemiology and global
public health. Dr Chen has published widely in these fields. He previously worked at the Universities of Liverpool, Dundee and London (UCL and KCL) as a lecturer,
senior lecturer and principle investigator, over the past 20 years. He has been an adjunct Professor at Anhui Medical University since 2003.
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