Medical Gerontology: Recent submissions
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Characteristics and outcomes of older persons attending the emergency department: a retrospective cohort study.
(2014)Background: The analysis of routinely collected hospital data informs the design of specialist services for at-risk older people. Aim: Describe the outcomes of a cohort of older emergency department (ED) attendees and ... -
Stroke in young women: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.
(2014)Stroke among adults of working age is increasing. We aimed to explore the experience of stroke among young women in Ireland. In total, 12 women (aged between 18 and 50 years) participated in semi-structured interviews. ... -
Longitudinal assessment of von Willebrand factor antigen and von Willebrand factor propeptide in response to alteration of antiplatelet therapy after TIA or ischaemic stroke.
(2014)The impact of commencing or changing antiplatelet therapy on von Willebrand factor antigen (VWF:Ag) and von Willebrand factor propeptide (VWF:Ag II) levels has not been comprehensively assessed following TIA or ischaemic ... -
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 ... -
Ageism in Stroke Rehabilitation Studies
(2014)Background: stroke is predominantly a disease of older people. While age bias has been demonstrated in studies of pharmacological therapeutic interventions in stroke, the extent of discrimination by age in stroke rehabilitation ... -
Vascular gait dyspraxia
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Frailty Index in Europeans: association with determinants of health.
(2014)AIM: The Frailty Index (FI) summarizes differences in health status within individuals, and the determinants of health drive that variability. The aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of education, ... -
Cross-national disparities in sex differences in life expectancy with and without frailty.
(2014)ACKGROUND: with continued ageing, levels of frailty are an increasing concern. Women live longer than men, but how life expectancies (LE) with frailty differ between men and women and whether sex differences are the ... -
Cognitive function in the prefrailty and frailty syndrome
(2014)OBJECTIVES: To explore the relationship between cognitive function and frailty. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study using data from Wave 1 of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, a population representative study of ... -
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 ... -
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)
(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) ... -
