Peter Gaffney
Boston Children's Hospital
6 Papers
30 Citations
Peter Gaffney is an academic researcher from Boston Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Diabetes mellitus. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications.
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Validation of a point of care lipid analyser using a hospital based reference laboratory.
TL;DR: These results validate the use of the Cholestech LDX® analyser for point of care lipid measurements in clinical practice, provided well trained operators are supported by a hospital laboratory delivering quality assurance support.
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Fasting plasma glucose as initial screening for diabetes and prediabetes in irish adults: The Diabetes Mellitus and Vascular health initiative (DMVhi).
Margaret Sinnott,Brendan Kinsley,Abaigeal D. Jackson,Cathal Walsh,Tony O'Grady,John J. Nolan,Peter Gaffney,Gerard Boran,Cecily Kelleher,Bernadette Carr +9 more
TL;DR: This study is the largest screening study for diabetes and prediabetes in the Irish population and using FPG as initial screening may underestimate the prevalence of T2D in the study population.
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Inverse Relationship Between Physical Activity, Adiposity, and Arterial Stiffness in Healthy Middle-Aged Subjects.
Oscar Mac Ananey,Brendan McLoughlin,Ann Leonard,Lewena Maher,Peter Gaffney,Gerard Boran,Vincent Maher +6 more
TL;DR: The more time healthy individuals spend being sedentary, the greater their body fat and arterial stiffness; Conversely higher activity levels are associated with reduced bodyfat and less arterial stiffening.
Addressing Inpatient Glycaemic Control with an Inpatient Glucometry Alert System
Jansen N. Seheult,A. Pazderska,Peter Gaffney,Jane Fogarty,M. Sherlock,James Gibney,Gerard Boran +6 more
TL;DR: An alert system to process point-of-care blood glucose results reduced the percentage of hyperglycaemic patient-day weighted glucose values and the time-to-normalization of blood glucose.
Age and cortisol levels modulate judgment of positive and negative facial expressions.
TL;DR: Performance on a simple emotional face judgment task in young and middle-aged adults in association with salivary cortisol levels was investigated and cortisol levels were found to be associated with shorter response latencies to categorise emotional but not neutral faces, and with a greater tendency to judge neutral faces as being emotional.
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