Browsing by Subject "Cognitive impairment"
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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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Cognitive impairment before and after intracerebral haemorrhage: a systematic review.
(2020)Introduction: There is increasing interest in understanding cognitive dysfunction before and after Intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH), given the higher prevalence of dementia reported (ranging from 5 to 44%) for this stroke ... -
Cognitive reserve in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): a population-based longitudinal study.
(2021)Background Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is often associated with cognitive and/or behavioural impairment. Cognitive reserve (CR) may play a protective role in offsetting cognitive impairment. This study examined the ... -
High prevalence of dementia among community dwelling older adults in receipt of state funded home care packages: implications for health care planning
(2017)Objectives: The majority of people living with dementia in Ireland reside in their own homes, some supported by formal or informal home care. This audit aimed to estimate the prevalence of dementia and suspected cognitive ... -
Hospitalisation and surgery: Are there hidden cognitive consequences? Evidence from The Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing (TILDA)
(2018)Background: the dramatic shift in the global population demographic has led to increasing numbers of older people undergoing hospitalisation and surgical procedures.Objectives:to determine whether hospitalisation or ... -
Improvement in cognitive impairment following a 12-week aerobic exercise intervention in individuals with non-cirrhotic chronic hepatitis C
(2020)Cognitive impairment occurs in 30%-50% of patients with non-cirrhotic chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Exercise is beneficial in preventing and treating cognitive impairment and cardiometabolic abnormalities in ... -
No relationship between fornix and cingulum degradation and within-network decreases in functional connectivity in prodromal Alzheimer???s disease
(2019)Introduction: The earliest changes in the brain due to Alzheimer’s disease are associated with the neural networks related to memory function. We investigated changes in functional and structural connectivity among ...
