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Adjusted hazard ratios (HRs), risk ratios (RRs), and odds ratios (ORs) were synthesized on the log scale using generic inverse-variance random-effects models with restricted maximum likelihood. Quantitative pools were restricted to explicitly defined procedures; mild cognitive impairment (MCI) was kept separate from dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD). Results: Nine reports involving 2,693,443 participants were included in the systematic review, of which five contributed to at least one procedure-specific meta-analysis. Hysterectomy without documented adnexal surgery was not clearly associated with dementia\/AD (4 studies; pooled ratio 0.94, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.84\u20131.05; I2 = 82.2%). Hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy\/oophorectomy also showed no clear association (2 studies; 1.04, 95% CI 0.67\u20131.62; I2 = 83.6%), nor did bilateral oophorectomy alone (4 studies; 0.99, 95% CI 0.88\u20131.12; I2 = 75.6%). No independently extractable study evaluated hysterectomy with bilateral salpingectomy. Conclusions: Procedure-specific analyses did not demonstrate a clear association with dementia or AD, but substantial heterogeneity, residual confounding, and exposure misclassification limit certainty and preclude causal interpretation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm15187247","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,22]],"date-time":"2026-09-22T11:09:35Z","timestamp":1790075375000},"page":"7247","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Associations of Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy with Dementia Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-3817-9175","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaotong","family":"Fu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, 17 Qihelou St, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100006, China"},{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"conceptualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"methodology","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-original-draft","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"given":"Shuiqing","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, 17 Qihelou St, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100006, China"},{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"methodology","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-original-draft","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5653-1340","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yang","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"writing-review-editing","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"investigation","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4628-8826","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ming","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, 17 Qihelou St, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100006, China"},{"name":"Laboratory for Clinical Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"conceptualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-review-editing","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"investigation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"supervision","vocabulary":"credit"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"908915","DOI":"10.1155\/2014\/908915","article-title":"Global epidemiology of dementia: Alzheimer\u2019s and vascular types","volume":"2014","author":"Rizzi","year":"2014","journal-title":"BioMed Res. 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