NPPB and dementia: Similarly, Tynkkynen et al. found that elevated log hs-cTnI was associated with incident dementia (HR 1.12, 95% CI 1.02; 1.23), although this result was slightly attenuated after correcting for NT-proBNP (HR 1.10, 95% CI 0.99; 1.21) [22].