Peters, Ruth, Beckett, Nigel, Geneva, Mariela, Tzekova, Maria, Lu, Fang Hong, Poulter, Ruth, ...
Introduction: previous studies have suggested that smoking, living alone and having a high body mass index may increase risk of developing dementia whereas a normal body mass index, having received...
Chronic kidney disease and hip fracture-related mortality in older people in the UK (2009)
Nitsch, Dorothea, Mylne, Adrian, Roderick, Paul J., Smeeth, Liam, Hubbard, Richard, Fletcher, Astrid
Background. Dialysis patients have increased hip fracture rates when compared to the general population of the same age and sex. There have been few studies of the association of earlier stages of...
A Survey. London: Help the Aged, 1999. (2008)
Ranzijn R, Keeves J, Luszcz M, Tadd W, Shakoor Hajat, Andy Haines, ...
elderly adults: conWrmatory factor analysis of the Bachman
Coutinho, Evandro SF, Fletcher, Astrid, Bloch, Katia V, Rodrigues, Laura C
Abstract Background Fracture after falling has been identified as an important problem in public health. Most studies of risk factors for fractures due to falls have been carried out in developed...
Biomarkers of inflammation predict both vascular and non-vascular mortality in older men (2008)
Clarke, Robert, Emberson, Jonathan R., Breeze, Elizabeth, Casas, Juan P., Parish, Sarah, Hingorani, Aroon D., ...
Aims To compare the predictive value of inflammatory biomarkers and lipids for vascular and non-vascular mortality in older men. Methods and results The relevance of inflammatory biomarkers and...
Defining a minimum income for healthy living (MIHL): older age, England (2007)
Morris, JN, Wilkinson, Paul, Dangour, Alan D, Deeming, Christopher, Fletcher, Astrid
Background Worldwide biomedical and social research is providing evidence on the personal requirements for health and well-being. Assessment of the minimum personal costs entailed in meeting these...
Cross-sectional survey of older peoples' views related to influenza vaccine uptake (2006)
Mangtani, Punam, Breeze, Elizabeth, Stirling, Sue, Hanciles, Smita, Kovats, Sari, Fletcher, Astrid
Abstract Background The population's views concerning influenza vaccine are important in maintaining high uptake of a vaccine that is required yearly to be effective. Little is also known about the...
Rait, Greta, Fletcher, Astrid, Smeeth, Liam, Brayne, Carol, Stirling, Susan, Nunes, Maria, ...
Background: cognitive impairment is an important part of the diagnostic criteria for dementia. The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is recommended to test for cognitive impairment and to monitor...
Hajat, Shakoor, Haines, Andy, Bulpitt, Christopher, Fletcher, Astrid
Background: very little work on alcohol consumption patterns in older people has been undertaken. As a result, knowledge about the prevalence and characteristics of regular drinkers and heavy...
Beleva, Sonia, Birkenhäger, Willem, Bulpitt, Christopher, ...
BACKGROUND: The randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled Systolic Hypertension in Europe trial (Syst-Eur 1) proved that blood pressure (BP) lowering therapy starting with nitrendipine reduces the...
Sibai, Abla M., Fletcher, Astrid, Armenian, Haroutune K.
The authors investigated the relation between exposure to wartime events and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality in Lebanon, which recently underwent a 16-year civil war. The study...
Multidimensional assessment of elderly people in the community (1998)
Multidimensional assessment has been advocated as the most appropriate type of screening activity for elderly people. The emphasis has traditionally been on screening for problems with function,...
Vulnerability to winter mortality in elderly people in Britain: population based study
Wilkinson, Paul, Pattenden, Sam, Armstrong, Ben, Fletcher, Astrid, Kovats, R Sari, Mangtani, Punam, ...
Objective To examine the determinants of vulnerability to winter mortality in elderly British people.
Armstrong, Ben G, Mangtani, Punam, Fletcher, Astrid, Kovats, Sari, McMichael, Anthony, Pattenden, Sam, ...
Objective To estimate the protection against death provided by vaccination against influenza.
Plight of Afghan people must not be forgotten
Armstrong, Ben, Coleman, Michel, Davies, Clive, Elbourne, Diana, Fletcher, Astrid, Grundy, Emily, ...
Walters, Kate, Breeze, Elizabeth, Wilkinson, Paul, Price, Gill M., Bulpitt, Chris J., Fletcher, Astrid
Objectives. We sought to determine the association of depression and anxiety with “area deprivation” (neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation) and population density among people older than 75...
Cross-sectional survey of older peoples' views related to influenza vaccine uptake
Mangtani, Punam, Breeze, Elizabeth, Stirling, Sue, Hanciles, Smita, Kovats, Sari, Fletcher, Astrid
Vulnerability to winter mortality in elderly people in Britain: population based study
Wilkinson, Paul, Pattenden, Sam, Armstrong, Ben, Fletcher, Astrid, Kovats, R Sari, Mangtani, Punam, ...
Objective To examine the determinants of vulnerability to winter mortality in elderly British people.
Armstrong, Ben G, Mangtani, Punam, Fletcher, Astrid, Kovats, Sari, McMichael, Anthony, Pattenden, Sam, ...
Objective To estimate the protection against death provided by vaccination against influenza.
Plight of Afghan people must not be forgotten
Armstrong, Ben, Coleman, Michel, Davies, Clive, Elbourne, Diana, Fletcher, Astrid, Grundy, Emily, ...
Walters, Kate, Breeze, Elizabeth, Wilkinson, Paul, Price, Gill M., Bulpitt, Chris J., Fletcher, Astrid
Objectives. We sought to determine the association of depression and anxiety with “area deprivation” (neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation) and population density among people older than 75...
Cross-sectional survey of older peoples' views related to influenza vaccine uptake
Mangtani, Punam, Breeze, Elizabeth, Stirling, Sue, Hanciles, Smita, Kovats, Sari, Fletcher, Astrid
Economic evaluation of drug therapy for hypercholesterolaemia in the United Kingdom
Mike Drummond, Alastair McGuire, Astrid Fletcher
The last decade has shown a concerted effort in the UK to find ways of reducing coronary heart disease (CHD), culminating in the recent government target of a 30% reduction in the rates in people...
Economic evaluation of drug therapy for hypercholesterolaemia in the United Kingdom
Mike Drummond, Alastair McGuire, Astrid Fletcher
The last decade has shown a concerted effort in the UK to find ways of reducing coronary heart disease (CHD), culminating in the recent government target of a 30% reduction in the rates in people...