Browsing by Subject "Mortality"
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An alternative method for Frailty Index cut-off points to define frailty categories.
(2013)PURPOSE: the Frailty Index (FI) is a popular operationalization of frailty. FI cut-off points have been proposed to define, regardless of age, frailty categories with increasing risk. Here, an alternative method is ... -
Analysis of excess all-cause mortality in Ireland during the COVID-19 epidemic. 3 July 2020
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Association between low serum vitamin d and Increased mortality and severity due to COVID-19: reverse causality?
(2022)We are very close to completing two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though vaccines have been developed and applied to more than 4 billion people in the world, SARS-CoV-2 continues to be a challenge ... -
Can soap films be used as models for mortality studies?
(2018)We report studies of the life expectancy of sets of parallel liquid films made from surfactant solution and contained in cylindrical perspex tubes. The tubes are sealed at the bottom and vertically placed. From our analysis ... -
Cardiovascular signal entropy predicts all-cause mortality: evidence from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
(2022)In this study, the relationship between cardiovascular signal entropy and the risk of seven-year all-cause mortality was explored in a large sample of community-dwelling older adults from The Irish Longitudinal Study on ... -
Changing morbidity patterns in Ireland 1996-2006
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2008)The aim of this study is to examine changing patterns of morbidity (and healthcare utilisation) in Ireland and consider the impact of these changing patterns on the need for health services using health insurance data. ... -
Clinical frailty independently predicts early mortality after ischaemic stroke
(2020)Background: Clinical frailty is an important syndrome for clinical care and research, independently predicting mortality and rates of institutionalisation in a range of medical conditions. However, there has been little ... -
Discharge of patients to long-term care from a large acute hospital over a 12-year period.
(2013)Abstract Background Several factors may be important in determining the discharge of patients to long-term care from the acute hospital. Aims We aimed to look at factors associated with discharge to long-term care from ... -
Evaluation of a 3-Item Health Index in Predicting Mortality Risk: A 12-Year Follow-Up Study
(2023)This study was carried out using a large cohort (N = 4265; 416 deceased) of older, community-dwelling adults from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). The study compared the performance of a new 3-item health ... -
Frail by Different Measures: A Comparison of 8-year Mortality in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
(2021)Purpose: We compared the ability of four frailty identification tools (frailty phenotype: FP; FRAIL scale; 32-item Frailty Index: FI; and Clinical Frailty Scale: CFS) to predict 8-year mortality in TILDA. Methods: We ... -
The frailty index in Europeans: association with age and mortality.
(2012)Background: the frailty index (FI) is an approach to the operationalisation of frailty based on accumulation of deficits. It has been less studied in Europeans. Objective: to construct sex-specific FIs from a large sample ... -
The Importance of Age in the Prediction of Mortality by a Frailty Index: A Machine Learning Approach in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(2021)The quantification of biological age in humans is an important scientific endeavor in the face of ageing populations. The frailty index (FI) methodology is based on the accumulation of health deficits and captures variations ... -
Is phenotypical prefrailty all the same? A longitudinal investigation of two prefrailty subtypes in TILDA
(2019)Background: Fried's frailty phenotype is defined by five criteria: exhaustion, unexplained weight loss, weakness, slowness and low physical activity. Prefrailty (PF) meets one or two criteria. PF is of interest as a target ... -
Mapping disease risk estimates based on small numbers: an assessment of empirical Bayes techniques
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)Choropleth maps are frequently used to analyse spatial variations in the risk of a disease. In such maps the relative risk is typically quantified by dividing some measure of the number of cases of the disease by some ... -
Metformin therapy and severity and mortality of SARS-CoV-2 infection: a meta-analysis
(2021)Background: It has been postulated that metformin could have anti-SARS-CoV-2 action. This raises the hypothesis that people who take metformin may have lower SARS-CoV-2 severity and/or mortality. Objective To conduct a ... -
Mortality in relation to changes in a healthy aging index: The health, aging, and body composition study
(2019-04)Background: Baseline scores on a Healthy Aging Index (HAI), including five key physiologic domains, strongly predict health outcomes. This study aimed to characterize 9-year changes in a HAI and explore their relationship ... -
Mortality statistics in Northern Ireland: past uses and future possibilities
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2006)The compulsory registration of births and deaths was established throughout most European countries during the 19th century. Enabling legislation was introduced for Ireland in 1863 with the first registration report ... -
Mortality: a physics perspective
(2021)One of the many interests of the late Dietrich Stauffer was the modelling of mortality. Here we review the features of mortality data for various biological species. Age specific mortality (death rate) leads to a discussion ... -
Nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review of challenges and responses
(2021)Introduction: COVID-19 has caused unprecedented challenges in nursing homes. In this scoping review, we aimed to describe factors that contributed to the spread and mortality of COVID-19 in nursing homes and provide an ... -
Optimising the In-Hospital Management of Hip Fracture Using the Irish Hip Fracture Database
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2023)Hip fracture can have a devastating impact on older adults as it is associated with reduced life expectancy, loss of independence and poorer quality of life. Each year in Ireland approximately 3,600 patients experience a ...