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Identification of predictors of gait speeds in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing using automated feature selection and explainable machine learning
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Medical Gerontology, 2023)This work reports the novel application of automated feature selection and explainable machine learning to identify and compare, in participants aged 50 years or over from wave 3 of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing ... -
Impact of assistance on the quality of life of older adults with activities of daily living & instrumental activities of daily living disabilities
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. CentreFor Medical Gerontology, 2018)As populations age, incidence of functional limitation including disability in Activities of Daily Living and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living increases. This creates a higher level of demand for technological and ... -
The Impact of Parental Earnings and Education on the Schooling of Children
(University College Dublin, 2011)This paper addresses the intergenerational transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in parental background. An important contribution of ... -
The Impact of Positive Affect on Falls and Fear of Falling in the Older Adult Population.
(Oxford Journals, 2013)Falling can have detrimental impacts both physically and psychologically on older people. Recent falls prevention guidelines from the American and British Geriatric Societies tend to minimise the psychological factors ... -
The Impact of Positive Affect on Falls Efficacy in the Older Adult Population.
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Impaired orthostatic heart rate recovery is associated with smaller thalamic volume: Results from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Aging (TILDA)
(Wiley, 2020)The thalamus is a central hub of the autonomic network and thalamic volume has been associated with high‐risk phenotypes for sudden cardiac death. Heart rate response to physiological stressors (e.g., standing) and the ... -
Impairments in Hemodynamic Responses to Orthostasis Associated with Frailty: Results from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
(2018)Objectives: To characterize the relationships between orthostatic blood pressure (BP) and heart rate recovery and frailty in an older population. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Two health centers in the Republic ... -
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 ... -
The Importance of Proximity to Death in Modelling Community Medication Expenditures for Older People: Evidence From New Zealand
(2014)BACKGROUND: Concerns about the long-term sustainability of health care expenditures (HCEs), particularly prescribing expenditures, has become an important policy issue in most developed countries. Previous studies suggest ... -
Improving the efficiency of multisensory integration in older adults: audio-visual temporal discrimination training reduces the susceptibility to the sound-induced flash illusion.
(2014)From language to motor control, efficient integration of information from different sensory modalities is necessary for maintaining a coherent interaction with the environment. While a number of training studies have focused ... -
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. ... -
Inappropriate prescribing in older fallers presenting to an Irish emergency department.
(2014)BACKGROUND: certain medications increase falls risk in older people. OBJECTIVE: to assess if prescribing modification occurs in older falls presenting to an emergency department (ED). DESIGN: before-and-after ... -
Incidence and prediction of falls in dementia: a prospective study in older
(2009)Background: Falls are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in dementia, but there have been no prospective studies of risk factors for falling specific to this patient population, and no successful falls interventio ... -
Increased endothelial activation in recently symptomatic versus asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis and in cerebral microembolic-signal-negative patient subgroups.
(2014)von Willebrand factor propeptide (VWF:Ag II) is potentially a more sensitive marker of acute endothelial activation than von Willebrand factor antigen (VWF:Ag). These biomarkers have not been simultaneously assessed in ... -
Increased platelet activation in early symptomatic versus asymptomatic carotid stenosis and relationship with microembolic status: Results from the Platelets And Carotid Stenosis (PACS) Study.
(2013)Abstract Background: Cerebral microembolic signals (MES) may predict increased stroke risk in carotid stenosis. However, the relationship between platelet counts or platelet activation status and MES in symptomatic ... -
Increased Salt Intake for Orthostatic Intolerance Syndromes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
(2020)Guidelines recommend increased salt intake as a first-line recommendation in the management of symptomatic orthostatic hypotension and recurrent syncope. There have been no systematic reviews of this intervention. We sought ... -
Insights into the clinical management of the syndrome of supine hypertension - orthostatic hypotension (SH-OH): The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
(2013)BACKGROUND: Our previously proposed morphological classification of orthostatic hypotension (MOH) is an approach to the definition of three typical orthostatic hemodynamic patterns using non-invasive beat-to-beat ...