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Initially developed for fixed-time mediator and outcome, it has been extended to the framework of longitudinal data by discretizing the assessment times of mediator and outcome. Yet, processes in play in longitudinal studies are usually defined in continuous time and measured at irregular and subject-specific visits. This is the case in dementia research when cerebral and cognitive changes measured at planned visits in cohorts are of interest. We thus propose a methodology to estimate the causal mechanisms between a time-fixed exposure ($X$), a mediator process ($\\mathcal {M}_t$), and an outcome process ($\\mathcal {Y}_t$) both measured repeatedly over time in the presence of a time-dependent confounding process ($\\mathcal {L}_t$). We consider 2 types of causal estimands, the natural effects and path-specific effects. We provide identifiability assumptions, and we employ a multivariate mixed model based on differential equations\u00a0for their estimation. 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