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Robert G. Cumming
Researcher at University of Sydney
Publications - 524
Citations - 42107
Robert G. Cumming is an academic researcher from University of Sydney. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 97, co-authored 515 publications receiving 38309 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert G. Cumming include University of New South Wales & Neuroscience Research Australia.
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A systematic review of the association between lower urinary tract symptoms and falls, injuries, and fractures in community-dwelling older men
TL;DR: Urinary incontinence and lower urinary tract storage symptoms are associated with falls in community-dwelling older men and the circumstances of falls in men with LUTS need to be investigated to generate hypotheses about what types of interventions may be effective in reducing falls.
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The Koori Growing Old Well Study: investigating aging and dementia in urban Aboriginal Australians
Kylie Radford,Holly A. Mack,Hamish Robertson,Brian Draper,Simon Chalkley,Gail Daylight,Robert G. Cumming,Hayley P. Bennett,Lisa Jackson Pulver,Gerald A. Broe +9 more
TL;DR: The study will provide the first available prevalence rates for dementia and cognitive impairment in a representative sample of urban Aboriginal people, across city and rural communities, where the majority of Aboriginal Australians live.
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Validating the Falls Behavioural (FaB) scale for older people: A Rasch analysis
TL;DR: The 29 item partial rating scale is valid, reliable and would be useful in clinical situations when used as a prompt for discussion and in raising clients' awareness of potential hazards; it also can be used as an outcome measure.
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Spinal cord injuries in Australian footballers 1997-2002.
TL;DR: To review acute spinal cord injuries in all Australian codes of football for 1997–2002 and to compare data with those of a 1986–1996 survey.
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Effects of drug burden index on cognitive function in older men.
Danijela Gnjidic,David G. Le Couteur,Vasi Naganathan,Robert G. Cumming,Helen Creasey,Louise M. Waite,Anita Sharma,Fiona M. Blyth,Sarah N. Hilmer +8 more
TL;DR: In this study of community-dwelling older men, DBI was not associated with limitations on objective cognitive performance measures or with a clinical diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment or dementia.