Browsing Medical Gerontology (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Knowledge, skills and attitudes of doctors towards assessing cognition in older patients in the emergency department.
(2013)PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: Although cognitive impairment and delirium are highly prevalent in older patients who present to the emergency department, multiple studies have highlighted inadequate detection by doctors. This ... -
Lack Of Association Between Angiotensin-converting Enzyme (Ace) Genotype And Essential Hypertension In Peruvian Older People
(2020)Background: Epidemiological studies have shown an association between the ACE gene I / D polymorphism with arterial hypertension, specifically the DD genotype in different populations. The objective of this study is to ... -
Lack of association between angiotensin-converting enzyme genotype and muscle strength in Peruvian older people
(2020)Aging can be associated with decreasing muscle strength, and related factors are comorbidities, sex, physical activity, and possibly genetic factors. Among genetic factors the renin-angiotensin system is of interest, but ... -
The Lasting Legacy of Childhood Adversity for Disease Risk In Later Life
(2015)Objective: There has been an increased interest in the role of the childhood social environment in the etiology of adult diseases in recent years. The present study examines whether the experience of adversity during ... -
A linear regression-based machine learning pipeline for the discovery of clinically relevant correlates of gait speed reserve from multiple physiological systems
(2021)Frailty in older adults is characterized by reduced physiological reserve. Gait speed reserve (GSR: maximum minus usual gait speed) could help identify frailty and act as a proxy for physiological reserve. Utilizing data ... -
The Lived Experience of Frailty: Beyond Classification and Towards a Holistic Understanding of Health
(2024)Purpose: Frailty is characterised by decreased physiological reserves and vulnerability to stressors. Although scales such as the Fried’s Frailty Phenotype (FP), Frailty Index (FI), and Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) are ... -
Loneliness and social isolation in the COVID-19 pandemic among the over 70s. Data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(TILDA, 2020)This joint report from TILDA and ALONE examines the issues of loneliness and social isolation with specific reference to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland. Measures introduced to curtail the spread of COVID-19, including ... -
Loneliness, social isolation, and their discordance among older adults
(TILDA, 2019)We have shown here that loneliness and social isolation are not a necessary fact of the ageing process and recent efforts to alleviate these potentially damaging phenomena should be encouraged. This is particularly important ... -
The Long Term Health Effects of Education
(ESRI, 2012-03-21)Using data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, I find that exogenous changes in the schooling of men born into lower social class families in Ireland during the late 1940s and 1950s had a statistically significant ... -
Longitudinal assessment of von Willebrand factor antigen and von Willebrand factor propeptide in response to alteration of antiplatelet therapy after TIA or ischaemic stroke.
(2014)The impact of commencing or changing antiplatelet therapy on von Willebrand factor antigen (VWF:Ag) and von Willebrand factor propeptide (VWF:Ag II) levels has not been comprehensively assessed following TIA or ischaemic ... -
Longitudinal Association Between Orthostatic Hypotension at 30 Seconds Post-Standing and Late-Life Depression.
(2018)There is an established cross-sectional association between orthostatic hypotension (OH) and late-life depression. The aim of this observational study was to clarify the longitudinal association between baseline symptomatic ... -
Longitudinal prevalence of potentially inappropriate medicines and potential prescribing omissions in a cohort of community-dwelling older people
(2015)Purpose This study aims to compare the prevalence of poten- tially inappropriate medicines (PIMs) and potential prescrib- ing omissions (PPOs) using several screening tools in an Irish community-dwelling older cohort, ... -
Longitudinal studies of ageing: from insights to impacts: Commentary to accompany themed collection on longitudinal studies
(2019)‘Time is the best diagnostician’: who has not thought this? In clinical practice, presentations are often subtle and decisions made in the face of a‘snapshot.’ Crystal balls do not exist; yet, insights from longitudinal ... -
Longitudinal study on Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART): clustering approach for mobility and cognitive decline
(2022)The Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) is a computer-based go/no-go task to measure neurocognitive function in older adults. However, simplified average features of this complex dataset lead to loss of primary ... -
Longitudinal trajectories of pulse wave velocity and cognition in the Irish longitudinal study of ageing (TILDA)
(2021)Introduction: Arterial stiffness is a marker of vascular ageing and carotid–femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV) is a standard measurement method. A raised cf-PWV in individuals has been associated cross-sectionally with ... -
Maternal educational inequalities in measured body mass index trajectories in three European countries
(2019)Background: Social inequalities in the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity are well‐established, but less is known about when the social gradient first emerges and how it evolves across childhood and ...
