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Patients with recurrent falls attending Accident & Emergency benefit from multifactorial intervention - a randomised controlled trial
(2005)OBJECTIVES: To determine the effectiveness of multifactorial intervention to prevent falls in cognitively intact older persons with recurrent falls. DESIGN: Randomised controlled trial of multifactorial (medical, physiotherapy ... -
Perceived stress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
(2020)Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, perceived stress has increased significantly among older adults. This increase will likely negatively affect both physical and psychological wellbeing among this population. ... -
Perspective: Vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19 severity - plausibly linked by latitude, ethnicity, impacts on cytokines, ACE2 and thrombosis.
(2020)SARS‐CoV‐2 coronavirus infection ranges from asymptomatic through to fatal COVID‐19 characterized by a ‘cytokine storm’ and lung failure. Vitamin D deficiency has been postulated as a determinant of severity. -
Perspective: Vitamin D supplementation prevents rickets and acute respiratory infections when given as daily maintenance but not as intermittent bolus: Implications for COVID-19
(2021)The value of vitamin D supplementation in the treatment or prevention of various conditions is often viewed with scepticism as a result of contradictory results of randomised trials. It is now becoming apparent that there ... -
A pharmacological perspective of Chloroquine in SARS-CoV-2 infection
(2020)The pandemic caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is having serious consequences on health and the economy worldwide. All evidence-based treatment strategies need to be ... -
Physical activity and exercise for the prevention and management of mild cognitive impairment and dementia: a collaborative international guideline
(2023)Background: Physical activity and exercise have been suggested as effective interventions for the prevention and management of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, but there are no international guidelines. Objectives: ... -
Physical activity partially mediates associations between ¿Big¿ personality traits and incident generalized anxiety disorder: Findings from the irish longitudinal study on ageing
(Elsevier BV, 2020)Background: This study aimed to examine associations of personality with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and physical activity (PA), PA with GAD, and PA mediates associations between personality and incident GAD. Methods: ... -
Physical and Mental Health of Older People while Cocooning during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2021)Background: Cocooning or shielding, i.e. staying at home and reducing face-to-face interaction with other people, was an important part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic for older people. However, concerns exist ... -
Polypharmacy including falls risk-increasing medications and subsequent falls in community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults
(2015)Background: polypharmacy is an important risk factor for falls, but recent studies suggest only when including medications associated with increasing the risk of falls. Design: a prospective, population-based cohort ... -
Potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults with mild-moderate Alzheimer's disease: prevalence and associations with adverse events.
(2020)Aim: Potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use is prevalent in older adults and is associated with adverse events, hospitalisation and mortality. We assessed the patterns and associations of PIM use in older adults ... -
Potentially inappropriate prescribing and its association with health outcomes in middle-Aged people: A prospective cohort study in Ireland
(2017)Objectives: To determine the prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) in a cohort of community-dwelling middle-aged people and assess the relationship between PIP and emergency department (ED) visits, ... -
Practical Instructions for the 2018 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of syncope
(2018)The literature on syncope and associated conditions can be confusing because of a lack of consistency. The meaning of some terms hasbecome obscured, and new terms were introduced to compete witholder, often equally adequate ... -
The prediction of mortality from continuous noninvasive cardiovascular signals on standing: entropy was significant, but not the overall response profile
(2022)In this study, a novel approach is presented using principal component analysis and sample entropy (SampEn) for the analysis of continuous blood pressure (BP) data measured non-invasively during an active stand (AS) in ... -
Predictors of physical activity in older adults early in an emergency hospital admission: a prospective cohort study
(2020)Background: Reduced mobility may be responsible for functional decline and acute sarcopenia in older hospitalised patients. The drivers of reduced in-hospital mobility are poorly understood, especially during the early ... -
Predictors of submaximal exercise test attainment in adults reporting long COVID symptoms
(2022)Adults with long COVID often report intolerance to exercise. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) has been used in many settings to measure exercise ability but has been conducted in a few long COVID cohorts. We conducted ... -
Preparing for COVID-19 vaccination: important learnings from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
(TILDA, 2020)This report brings together important information on vaccinations among adults aged 60 years and older learned from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), which can inform the rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations. The ... -
Prevalence of age-related macular degeneration in the Republic of Ireland.
(2015)Background Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) remains the most common cause of visual loss among subjects over 50 years of age in the developed world. The Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing (TILDA) is a population-based ... -
Prevalence of Ex Vivo High On-treatment Platelet Reactivity on Antiplatelet Therapy after Transient Ischemic Attack or Ischemic Stroke on the PFA-100(®) and VerifyNow(®).
(2013)The prevalence of ex vivo high on-treatment platelet reactivity (HTPR) to commonly prescribed antiplatelet regimens after transient ischemic attack (TIA) or ischemic stroke is uncertain. METHODS: Platelet function ...