Browsing Medical Gerontology (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Anticholinergic medications in patients admitted with cognitive impairment and falls (AMiCI). The impact of hospital admission on anticholinergic cognitive medication burden. Results of a multi centre observational study
(2018)What is known and objective: Drugs with anticholinergic properties increase the risk of falls, delirium, chronic cognitive impairment, and mortality and counteract procholinergic medications used in the treatment of dementia. ... -
Antidepressants are Independently Associated with Gait Deficits in Single and Dual Task Conditions
(2015)Objectives This study examined the relationships between late-onset depressive symptoms, antidepressants, and single and dual task gait in older adults. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting The Irish Longitudinal ... -
Antidepressants strongly influence the relationship between depression and heart rate variability: findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
(2015)Background: Heart rate variability (HRV) is known to be reduced in depression; however, is unclear whether this is a consequence of the disorder or due to antidepressant medication. Methods: We analysed data on 4750 ... -
Approximate entropies of resting state continuous neurocardiovascular physiological signals are associated with physical frailty in older adults
(2021)Frailty in older adults is characterised by dysregulation in multiple physiological systems. The frailty phenotype is defined on the basis of exhaustion, unexplained weight loss, weakness, slowness and low physical activity ... -
The association between clinical frailty and walking speed in older hospitalised medical patients: a retrospective observational study
(2017)This study aims to further evaluate the use of the clinical frailty scale (CFS) by assessing its correlation with usual walking speed (UWS) in older medical inpatients. Methods Retrospective observational study in an English ... -
The association between cognitive impairment and functional outcome in hospitalised older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(2017)Background: in hospitalised older adults, cognitive impairments are common and may be associated with functional outcomes. Our aim was to systematically review this association.Method: we systematically searched MEDLINE, ... -
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 ... -
Association of cognition with functional trajectories in patients admitted to geriatric wards: a retrospective observational study
(2017)Aim: Impaired cognition is common among older patients admitted to acute hospitals, but its association with functional trajectories has not been well studied. Methods: A retrospective observational study was carried ... -
The association of geriatric syndromes with hospital outcomes
(2017)BACKGROUND: Frailty, history of dementia (HoD), and acute confusional states (ACS) are common in older patients admitted to hospital. OBJECTIVE: To study the association of frailty (≥6 points in the Clinical Frailty Scale ... -
Associations between Cardiovascular Signal Entropy and Cognitive Performance over Eight Years
(2021)In this study, the relationship between non-invasively measured cardiovascular signal entropy and global cognitive performance was explored in a sample of community-dwelling older adults from The Irish Longitudinal Study ... -
Associations between cognitive function, actigraphy-based and self-reported sleep in older community-dwelling adults: Findings from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(Wiley, 2020)Objective: Cognitive impairment is prevalent in older ages. Associations with sleep are well established; however, ambiguity remains in which sleep characteristics contribute to this impairment. We examined cross-sectional ... -
Associations between neurocardiovascular signal entropy and physical frailty
(2021)In this cross-sectional study, the relationship between noninvasively measured neurocardiovascular signal entropy and physical frailty was explored in a sample of community-dwelling older adults from The Irish Longitudinal ... -
Autonomic dysfunction in patients with advanced cancer; prevalence, clinical correlates and challenges in assessment.
(2012)Background: The results of a small number of studies of autonomic function in patients with advanced cancer suggest that autonomic dysfunction (AD) is common. In other disease-specific groups this is associated with decreased ... -
Biomarker Signatures of Two Phenotypical Pre-Frailty Types in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(2022)Abstract: We investigated the biomarker signatures of two previously reported phenotypical prefrailty (PF) types in the first wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA): PF1 (unexplained weight loss and/or ... -
Biomarkers of delirium risk in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(2023)Delirium is a neuropsychiatric syndrome associated with increased morbidity and mortality in older patients. The aim of this study was to review predictive biomarkers of delirium in older patients to gain insights into ... -
Blood Pressure Signal Entropy as a Novel Marker of Physical Frailty: Results from the FRAILMatics Clinical Cohort
(2022)In this study we investigated the association between information entropy in short length blood pressure signals and physical frailty status, in a group of patients aged 50+ recruited from the Falls and Syncope Unit at ...