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Kara Martin
Researcher at Cancer Council Victoria
Publications - 19
Citations - 1326
Kara Martin is an academic researcher from Cancer Council Victoria. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 19 publications receiving 1094 citations. Previous affiliations of Kara Martin include Menzies Research Institute & University of Tasmania.
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Gait, gait variability and the risk of multiple incident falls in older people: a population-based study
Michele L. Callisaya,Michele L. Callisaya,Leigh Blizzard,Michael D. Schmidt,Michael D. Schmidt,Kara Martin,Jennifer L. McGinley,Lauren Maree Sanders,Velandai Srikanth,Velandai Srikanth +9 more
TL;DR: There is an increased risk of multiple falls, but not single falls, in older people with poorer gait, and specific measures of gait and gait variability seem to confer this risk and may be amenable to interventions designed to reduce the risk ofmultiple falls in olderPeople.
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Cerebral White Matter Lesions, Gait, and the Risk of Incident Falls. A Prospective Population-Based Study
Velandai Srikanth,Richard Beare,Leigh Blizzard,Thanh G. Phan,Jennifer Stapleton,Jian Chen,Michele L. Callisaya,Kara Martin,David C. Reutens +8 more
TL;DR: These data provide the first prospective evidence to the authors' knowledge demonstrating that WMLs are strong risk factors for falls in the general older population and present potential therapeutic targets for interventional trials in falls prevention.
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Cognitive Function, Gait, and Gait Variability in Older People: A Population-Based Study
Kara Martin,Leigh Blizzard,Amanda G. Wood,Velandai Srikanth,Velandai Srikanth,Russell Thomson,Lauren Maree Sanders,Michele L. Callisaya,Michele L. Callisaya +8 more
TL;DR: In community-dwelling older people, executive function/attention and processing speed were associated with many aspects of gait, whereas visuospatial ability may only play a role in double support phase variability.
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Sex differences in long-term outcomes after stroke: functional outcomes, handicap, and quality of life
TL;DR: This review addresses the gap in discussion of sex differences with regard to outcome in the longer term after stroke by exploring sex differences in functional outcomes, also known as “activity limitations” and historically as ‘disability’; (2) handicap; and (3) quality of life.
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Air pollution events from forest fires and emergency department attendances in Sydney, Australia 1996–2007: a case-crossover analysis
Fay H. Johnston,Stuart Purdie,Bin Jalaludin,Kara Martin,Sarah B. Henderson,Geoffrey G. Morgan +5 more
TL;DR: Smoke events were associated with an immediate increase in presentations for respiratory conditions and a lagged increase in attendances for ischaemic heart disease and heart failure and better characterisation of the spectrum of population health risks is needed.