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In their own words: The voices of Older Irish people in the COVID-19 pandemic
(The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, 2021)Since COVID-19 was declared an international pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in March 2020 (HSE, 2021), older people have carried the greatest burden of serious infection and death from the virus. ... -
SART and individual trial mistake thresholds: predictive model for mobility decline
(2021)The Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) has been used to measure neurocognitive functions in older adults. However, simplified average features of this complex dataset may result in loss of primary information and ... -
The Importance of Age in the Prediction of Mortality by a Frailty Index: A Machine Learning Approach in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(2021)The quantification of biological age in humans is an important scientific endeavor in the face of ageing populations. The frailty index (FI) methodology is based on the accumulation of health deficits and captures variations ... -
ACE gene I/D polymorphism and severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalized patients: a metanalysis
(2021)Background Hypertension and type 2 diabetes increase the risk of severe SARS-CoV-2 infection. On the other hand, homozygous ACE deletion polymorphism (DD) has been associated with these two diseases and risk of acute ... -
Relationship between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration and acute inflammatory markers in hospitalized patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection: a systematic review
(2021)INTRODUCTION: There is experimental and clinical evidence that the serum concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D)] may decrease in acute systemic inflammatory responses; in this context, low values may not necessarily ...
