Browsing Medical Gerontology (Scholarly Publications) by Author "KENNY, ROSE ANNE"
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AF is associated with self-reported syncope and falls in a general population cohort.
KENNY, ROSE; KENNY, ROSE ANNE (2015)Background: syncope is an important, but underestimated clinical problem in older persons. It is often overlooked in clinical practice or mistaken for falls. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, ... -
Autonomic dysfunction in patients with advanced cancer; prevalence, clinical correlates and challenges in assessment.
KENNY, ROSE ANNE (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 ... -
Cohort Profile: the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing.
KENNY, ROSE ANNE; O'REGAN, CLAIRE; WHELAN, BRENDAN JAMES; CRONIN, HILARY; SAVVA, GEORGE; Kearney, Patricia M.; Kamiya, Yumiko (2011)How did the study come about? Ireland shares with other developed countries the prospect of rapid and sustained population ageing. The age distribution of the Irish population is undergoing a dramatic change at present ... -
Comparison of centre and home-based health assessments: early experience from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA).
KENNY, ROSE ANNE; O'REGAN, CLAIRE; CRONIN, HILARY; Kearney, Patricia M.; Kamiya, Yumiko; Whelan, Brendan J. (2011)Background: some cohort studies of ageing and health supplement questionnaire-based surveys with in-home measurements of biological parameters and others have required respondents to attend assessment centres. Centre-based ... -
Continuous noninvasive orthostatic blood pressure measurements and their relationship with orthostatic intolerance, falls, and frailty in older people.
KENNY, ROSE ANNE; ROMERO-ORTUNO, ROMAN; FAN, CHIE WEI; FORAN, TIM (American Geriatrics Society, 2011)OBJECTIVES: To identify morphological orthostatic blood pressure (BP) phenotypes in older people and assess their correlation with orthostatic intolerance (OI), falls, and frailty and to compare the discriminatory performance ... -
Depression, anxiety and cardiovascular disease: Which symptoms are associated with increased risk in community dwelling older adults?
KENNY, ROSE ANNE; O'REGAN, CLAIRE; LAWLOR, BRIAN; SAVVA, GEORGE; CRONIN, HILARY (2012)Depression is a risk factor for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). It has been reported that somatic symptoms of depression and not cognitive symptoms are associated with increased risk although findings have been inconsistent. ... -
The Effect of Combined Sensory and Semantic Components on Audio Visual Speech Perception in Older Adults
SETTI, ANNALISA; KENNY, ROSE ANNE; NEWELL, FIONA; MAGUINNESS, CORRINA (2011)Previous studies have found that perception in older people benefits from multisensory over unisensory information. As normal speech recognition is affected by both the auditory input and the visual lip movements of the ... -
Failure to demonstrate that memory improvement is due either to aerobic exercise or increased hippocampal volume.
KENNY, ROSE ANNE; LAWLOR, BRIAN (2011)We read with interest the article in PNAS, ?Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory? by Erickson et al. (1). It is a noteworthy finding that over a 1-y period anterior hippocampal volume ... -
Fifty plus in Ireland 2011: First results from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
NORMAND, CHARLES; BARRETT, ALAN; O'SULLIVAN, VINCENT; WHELAN, BRENDAN JAMES; O'REGAN, CLAIRE; MATY, SIOBHAN; KAMIYA, YUMIKO; SAVVA, GEORGE; LAYTE, RICHARD; MOSCA, IRENE; KENNY, ROSE ANNE; TIMONEN, VIRPI (Trinity College Dublin, 2011)The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) is a large-scale, nationally representative study of people aged 50 and over in Ireland. It is the most ambitious study of ageing ever carried out in Ireland and represents ... -
The frailty index in Europeans: association with age and mortality.
ROMERO-ORTUNO, ROMAN; KENNY, ROSE ANNE (2012)Background: the frailty index (FI) is an approach to the operationalisation of frailty based on accumulation of deficits. It has been less studied in Europeans. Objective: to construct sex-specific FIs from a large sample ... -
Frailty, depression and anxiety in later life.
KENNY, ROSE ANNE; LAWLOR, BRIAN; NI MHAOLAIN, AINE; ROMERO-ORTUNO, ROMAN (2012)Background: Anxiety and depression are common in older people but are often missed; to improve detection we must focus on those elderly people at risk. Frailty is a geriatric syndrome inferring increased risk of poor outcomes. ... -
Hand-held dynamometry: tester strength is paramount, even in frail populations.
KENNY, ROSE ANNE (2011)To determine test-retest and inter-rater reliability of hand-held dynamometry when used to measure knee--extensor strength in patients with advanced cancer. SUBJECTS: Adults with metastatic or locally advanced cancer ... -
An introduction to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing.
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Longitudinal prevalence of potentially inappropriate medicines and potential prescribing omissions in a cohort of community-dwelling older people
BENNETT, KATHLEEN; KENNY, ROSE; KENNY, ROSE ANNE; BENNETT, KATHLEEN (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, ... -
A mathematical model of ageing-related and cortisol induced hippocampal dysfunction.
KENNY, ROSE ANNE (BioMed Central, 2009)Background The hippocampus is essential for declarative memory synthesis and is a core pathological substrate for Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common aging-related dementing disease. Acute increases in plasma cortisol ... -
Recent syncope and unexplained falls are associated with poor cognitive performance
BOYLE, GERARD; KENNY, ROSE; KENNY, ROSE ANNE; BOYLE, GERARD (2015)Objective: to compare cognitive performance in participants with and without syncope and unexplained falls in a large population representative sample aged 50 years or older. Methods: participants of the Irish longitudinal ... -
Relative Association of Processing Speed, Short-Term Memory and Sustained Attention With Task on Gait Speed: A Study of Community-Dwelling People 50 Years and Older.
CRONIN, HILARY; DONOGHUE, ORNA; REILLY, RICHARD; KENNY, ROSE ANNE; KILLANE, ISABELLE (2014)For single gait tasks, associations have been reported between gait speed and cognitive domains. However, few studies have evaluated if this association is altered in dual gait tasks given gait speed changes with complexity ... -
Statin use in adults at high risk of cardiovascular disease mortality: Cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
KENNY, ROSE; KENNY, ROSE ANNE (2015)Objectives This study aims to examine the extent to which statins are used by adults at high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared to European clinical guidelines. The high-risk groups examined are those with (1) ... -
Summary of the Updated American Geriatrics Society/British Geriatrics Society Clinical Practice.
KENNY, ROSE ANNE; Panel on Prevention of Falls in Older Persons, American Geriatrics Society and British Geriatrics Society (2011)The following article is a summary of the American Geriatrics Society/British Geriatrics Society Clinical Practice Guideline for Prevention of Falls in Older Persons (2010). This article provides additional discussion ...