Dearbhla Kelly, MB BCh BAO MSc DPhil MRCPI
Academic Nephrologist
To reduce the scale and impact of dementia in later life, we need to screen for and better control hypertension (high blood pressure) in midlife.
Current Work
Dearbhla Kelly is an academic nephrologist who is currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Philip Kistler Stroke Research Center within the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is studying the intersection of kidney disease and cognitive brain health.
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Vision
To reduce the scale and impact of dementia in later life, Dearbhla believes we need to screen for and better control hypertension (high blood pressure) in midlife.
Strategy
Dearbhla is examining the impact of kidney disease on stroke and dementia risk, mechanisms, and outcomes, using population-based cohorts, big-data, and Mendelian Randomization analyses.
Impact
As an Atlantic Fellow, Dearbhla aims to disentangle and better understand the relationships between blood pressure, kidney disease, and dementia.
Motivation
Recent work from the Oxford Vascular Study has demonstrated that the incidence of dementia is nearly 50 times higher in the year after a major stroke compared with that in the general population.
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