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Health and aging: development of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing.
(2013)
To assist researchers planning studies similar to The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), concerning the development of the health assessment component, to promote use of the archived data set, to inform researchers ...
Orthostatic hypotension is associated with lower cognitive performance in adults aged 50 plus with supine hypertension.
(2014)
OBJECTIVES:
This study investigated the association between orthostatic hypotension (OH), supine hypertension (SH), and cognitive performance.
METHODS:
Four thousand six hundred and ninety participants of The Irish ...
Change in perceived stress and 2-year change in cognitive function among older adults: The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(Wiley, 2018)
Prolonged or severe stress can adversely affect older adults' cognitive function, but population‐based studies investigating this relationship over time are rare. Previous studies have largely focused on stress either ...
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 ...
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, ...
Self-reported cardiovascular conditions are associated with falls and syncope in community-dwelling older adults.
(2015)
Background: with increasing age, causes of syncope are more often of cardiac origin. Syncope in older persons is often mistaken for falls. Data regarding the association between specific cardiovascular conditions, falls ...
Validation of the self-reported hearing questions in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing against the Whispered Voice Test.
(2014)
BACKGROUND:
Self report questions are often used in population studies to assess sensory efficacy and decline. These questions differ in their validity in assessing sensory impairment depending on the wording of the ...