Medical Gerontology: Recent submissions
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The Psychic Costs of Migration: Evidence from Irish Return Migrants
(2013)Within the economics literature, the 'psychic costs' of migration have been incorporated into theoretical models since Sjaastad (J Polit Econ 70:80-93, 1962). However, the existence of such costs has rarely been investigated ... -
Integrating genotypic data with transcriptomic and proteomic data.
(2002)Historically genotypic variation has been detected at the phenotypic level, at the metabolic level, and at the protein chemistry level. Advances in technology have allowed its direct visualisation at the level of DNA ... -
Mature Matters: Ageing
(Irish Independent, 2012)Article appeared in the Irish Independent 04/07/2011 -
Autonomic dysfunction in patients with advanced cancer; prevalence, clinical correlates and challenges in assessment.
(2012)Background: The results of a small number of studies of autonomic function in patients with advanced cancer suggest that autonomic dysfunction (AD) is common. In other disease-specific groups this is associated with decreased ... -
Depression, anxiety and cardiovascular disease: Which symptoms are associated with increased risk in community dwelling older adults?
(2012)Depression is a risk factor for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). It has been reported that somatic symptoms of depression and not cognitive symptoms are associated with increased risk although findings have been inconsistent. ... -
Frailty, depression and anxiety in later life.
(2012)Background: Anxiety and depression are common in older people but are often missed; to improve detection we must focus on those elderly people at risk. Frailty is a geriatric syndrome inferring increased risk of poor outcomes. ... -
Failure to demonstrate that memory improvement is due either to aerobic exercise or increased hippocampal volume.
(2011)We read with interest the article in PNAS, ?Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory? by Erickson et al. (1). It is a noteworthy finding that over a 1-y period anterior hippocampal volume ... -
Breastfeeding and risk of overweight and obesity at nine years of age
(2012)Whether breastfeeding is protective against the development of childhood overweight and obesity remains the subject of considerable debate. Although a number of meta-analyses and syntheses of the literature have concluded ... -
SNP variation in the promoter of the PRKAG3 gene and association with meat quality traits in pig.
(2012)Background The PRKAG3 gene encodes the ?3 subunit of adenosine monophosphate activated protein kinase (AMPK), a protein that plays a key role in energy metabolism in skeletal muscle. Non-synonymous single nucleotide ... -
Effects of fear of falling and activity restriction on normal and dual task walking in community dwelling older adults
(2013)Fear of falling (FOF) is associated with poor physical and psychosocial health and can have debilitating consequences especially when it leads to activity restriction. This study examined whether normal and dual task gait ... -
Supplementary Pensions and the Income of Ireland's Retirees
(TILDA - Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, 2012-11-29)The objective of this report is to explore (a) the incomes of retirees in Ireland and (b) the distribution of supplementary pensions among them, although clearly there is a close relationship between (a) and (b). Our focus ... -
Obesity and Employment in Ireland: Moving Beyond BMI
(ESRI, 2012)I use data from the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) to investigate the impact of obesity on the labour market status of older Irish individuals. I employ an anthropometric indicator of body ... -
Falls and falls efficacy: the role of sustained attention in older adults.
(2011)Background Previous evidence indicates that older people allocate more of their attentional resources toward their gait and that the attention-related changes that occur during aging increase the risk of falls. The aim ... -
The Long Term Health Effects of Education
(ESRI, 2012-03-21)Using data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, I find that exogenous changes in the schooling of men born into lower social class families in Ireland during the late 1940s and 1950s had a statistically significant ... -
Hand-held dynamometry: tester strength is paramount, even in frail populations.
(2011)To determine test-retest and inter-rater reliability of hand-held dynamometry when used to measure knee--extensor strength in patients with advanced cancer. SUBJECTS: Adults with metastatic or locally advanced cancer ... -
Retirement and Labour Market Participation
(TILDA, 2011)Labour market participation of older people is important from the perspective of the individual and the macroeconomy. At an individual level, participation in the labour market can be associated with increased resources ... -
The Effect of Combined Sensory and Semantic Components on Audio Visual Speech Perception in Older Adults
(2011)Previous studies have found that perception in older people benefits from multisensory over unisensory information. As normal speech recognition is affected by both the auditory input and the visual lip movements of the ... -
Alterations in the blood brain barrier in ageing cerebral cortex in relationship to Alzheimer-type pathology: a study in the MRC-CFAS population neuropathology cohort
(Elsevier, 2011)Impairment of the blood brain barrier (BBB) in human brain ageing and its relationship to Alzheimer-type pathology remains poorly defined. We have investigated the BBB in temporal cortex of brain donations from a ... -
Orthostatic haemodynamics may be impaired in frailty.
(2011)Background: orthostatic hypotension (OH) is a physical sign that reflects a final common pathway of various forms of disordered physiology, which is the hallmark of geriatric frailty. Fried et al. recognise three increasing ...
