Browsing by Author "CRONIN, HILARY"
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Age and sex differences in prevalence and clinical correlates of depression: first results from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing.
KENNY, ROSE; CRONIN, HILARY; O'REGAN, CLAIRE (2013)OBJECTIVE: The risk of depression is increased by physical illness; however, the nature of this relationship is complex and unclear. Here, we explore the prevalence and clinical correlates of depression, with particular ... -
Antidepressants strongly influence the relationship between depression and heart rate variability: findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
FINUCANE, CIARAN; CRONIN, HILARY; KENNY, ROSE; O'REGAN, CLAIRE (2015)Background: Heart rate variability (HRV) is known to be reduced in depression; however, is unclear whether this is a consequence of the disorder or due to antidepressant medication. Methods: We analysed data on 4750 ... -
Cohort Profile: the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing.
KENNY, ROSE ANNE; O'REGAN, CLAIRE; WHELAN, BRENDAN JAMES; CRONIN, HILARY; SAVVA, GEORGE; Kearney, Patricia M.; Kamiya, Yumiko (2011)How did the study come about? Ireland shares with other developed countries the prospect of rapid and sustained population ageing. The age distribution of the Irish population is undergoing a dramatic change at present ... -
Comparison of centre and home-based health assessments: early experience from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA).
KENNY, ROSE ANNE; O'REGAN, CLAIRE; CRONIN, HILARY; Kearney, Patricia M.; Kamiya, Yumiko; Whelan, Brendan J. (2011)Background: some cohort studies of ageing and health supplement questionnaire-based surveys with in-home measurements of biological parameters and others have required respondents to attend assessment centres. Centre-based ... -
Depression, anxiety and cardiovascular disease: Which symptoms are associated with increased risk in community dwelling older adults?
KENNY, ROSE ANNE; O'REGAN, CLAIRE; LAWLOR, BRIAN; SAVVA, GEORGE; CRONIN, HILARY (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. ... -
Effects of fear of falling and activity restriction on normal and dual task walking in community dwelling older adults
KENNY, ROSE; DONOGHUE, ORNA; CRONIN, HILARY; SAVVA, GEORGE; O'REGAN, CLAIRE (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 ... -
Health and aging: development of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing.
KENNY, ROSE; CRONIN, HILARY; FINUCANE, CIARAN; O'REGAN, CLAIRE (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 ... -
Low macular pigment optical density is associated with lower cognitive performance in a large, population-based sample of older adults..
KENNY, ROSE; FEENEY, JOANNE; NOLAN, JOHN; CRONIN, HILARY; BEATTY, STEPHEN; FINUCANE, CIARAN (2013) -
Normative values of cognitive and physical function in older adults: findings from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing.
KENNY, ROSE; CRONIN, HILARY; DONOGHUE, ORNA (2013) -
Oscillometric measure of blood pressure detects association between orthostatic hypotension and depression in population based study of older adults.
KENNY, ROSE; LAWLOR, BRIAN; CRONIN, HILARY; O'REGAN, CLAIRE (2013) -
Relationship between fear of falling and mobility varies with visual function among older adults
KENNY, ROSE; DONOGHUE, ORNA; FINUCANE, CIARAN; CRONIN, HILARY (2013)AIM: The present study examined the association between vision, fear of falling and fear-related activity restriction, and assessed the effect of vision on the relationship between fear of falling and mobility, using ... -
Relative Association of Processing Speed, Short-Term Memory and Sustained Attention With Task on Gait Speed: A Study of Community-Dwelling People 50 Years and Older.
CRONIN, HILARY; DONOGHUE, ORNA; REILLY, RICHARD; KENNY, ROSE ANNE; KILLANE, ISABELLE (2014)For single gait tasks, associations have been reported between gait speed and cognitive domains. However, few studies have evaluated if this association is altered in dual gait tasks given gait speed changes with complexity ... -
Using timed up-and-go to identify frail members of the older population.
KENNY, ROSE; CRONIN, HILARY; O'REGAN, CLAIRE; DONOGHUE, ORNA (2013) -
Validation of the self-reported hearing questions in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing against the Whispered Voice Test.
SETTI, ANNALISA; CRONIN, HILARY; KENNY, ROSE (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 ...