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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most challenging disorders in clinical cardiology affecting 0.4-1% of persons in the general population and increasing with age. It is associated with an increased risk of stroke, ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Strategies which raise levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) are attracting increasing interest, based on the well-established inverse relationship between HDL levels and cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, recent ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)This thesis explores how the physical and social environmental conditions of urban areas potentially influence active ageing among independently living older adults in Christchurch, New Zealand. The research coincided with ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia and postural instability. A major complication is that mild cognitive impairment is commonly associated ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)Saccades (fast eye movements) reveal the overt and covert deployment of visual attention, reflect more or less directly the influence of basal ganglia outputs, and can be simply and accurately measured. Therefore, saccades ... -
(Thesis, Bachelor of Medical Science with Honours, 2012)Little research has been undertaken into the prevalence and characteristics of the acute symptoms following mild head injury, especially within the first month. This study recruited 75 mild head injury patients identified ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease where the majority of people are diagnosed in early adulthood however they experience a long sequela, with chronic progressive deterioration in most cases and a median survival time of ... -
(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2012)As our population ages so too will the number of people with dementia increase. For some time there have been concerns expressed by campaigners for people with dementia about quality of life and the safety and quality of ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative movement disorder characterized by tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, and postural instability. Additionally, a large portion of those with Parkinson’s disease will ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Breath analysis is non-invasive and acceptable to patients, and is an attractive method for the diagnosis and monitoring of airway inflammation in asthma and COPD. The measurement of the fraction of nitric oxide in exhaled ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)The body of work described in this thesis used saccades (fast eye movements) and MRI measures to characterise an Alzheimer’s disease (AD) group. Saccades are served by a network of cortical and subcortical regions, and ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Acute Kidney injury (AKI) is common and frequently fatal. Delay in plasma creatinine based diagnosis of AKI has compromised clinical trials of experimentally promising therapies of kidney injury. Therefore, a number of ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)This thesis examines influences on outcomes for frail older people in the year following their discharge from a specialist subacute geriatric assessment unit. It is a mixed methodology study comprising four phases: an ...
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