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Association between low serum vitamin d and Increased mortality and severity due to COVID-19: reverse causality?
(2022)We are very close to completing two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though vaccines have been developed and applied to more than 4 billion people in the world, SARS-CoV-2 continues to be a challenge ... -
Comprehensive clinical characterisation of brain fog in adults reporting long COVID symptoms
(2022)(1) Introduction: A subset of individuals experiencing long COVID symptoms are affected by ‘brain fog’, a lay term that often refers to general cognitive dysfunction but one that is still poorly characterised. In this ... -
Cardiovascular signal entropy predicts all-cause mortality: evidence from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
(2022)In this study, the relationship between cardiovascular signal entropy and the risk of seven-year all-cause mortality was explored in a large sample of community-dwelling older adults from The Irish Longitudinal Study on ... -
Understanding a Low Vitamin D State in the Context of COVID-19
(2022)While a low vitamin D state has been associated with an increased risk of infection by SARS-CoV-2 in addition to an increased severity of COVID-19 disease, a causal role is not yet established. Here, we review the evidence ... -
Variability and agreement of frailty measures and risk of falls, hospital admissions and mortality in TILDA
(2022)Little is known about the within-person variability of different frailty instruments, their agreement over time, and whether use of repeat assessments could improve the strength of associations with adverse health outcomes. ...
