The paper is titled 'Using the Finometer® to examine sex differences in hemodynamic responses to orthostasis in older people', with authors Dr Roman Romero-Ortuno, Dr Lisa Cogan, Tim Foran, Dr Mimi Fan and Prof Rose Anne Kenny. OI or orthostatic intolerance is the tendency for people to experience a faint feeling or perhaps a blackout when they stand, and how their blood pressure relates to the occurrence of these incidents. While this area has been well studied in younger people, and gender differences have been found (although not necessarily well understood) it is not well studied in older people, and gender differences have not been emphasised in any studies to date. TRIL researchers found that in older adults there were no clear gender differences in orthostatic intolerance. This is interesting for TRIL researchers as orthostatic intolerance is thought to be a contributor to falls in older people. This contributes to the body of knowledge in this area.

In addition the paper has a very special acknowledgement to Clodagh Cunningham, who had an invaluable role in the organisation of the clinical assessments.

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