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Ralph B. D'Agostino
Researcher at Wake Forest University
Publications - 1336
Citations - 250792
Ralph B. D'Agostino is an academic researcher from Wake Forest University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Framingham Heart Study & Framingham Risk Score. The author has an hindex of 226, co-authored 1287 publications receiving 229636 citations. Previous affiliations of Ralph B. D'Agostino include VA Boston Healthcare System & University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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Sudden coronary death in women
TL;DR: Sudden death is a prominent feature of CHD in women as well as men, particularly in advanced age, and at any level of multivariate risk, women are less vulnerable to sudden death than men.
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Lifetime risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: The impact of mortality on risk estimates in the Framingham Study
Sudha Seshadri,Philip A. Wolf,Alexa S. Beiser,Rhoda Au,K. A. McNulty,Rick White,Ralph B. D'Agostino +6 more
TL;DR: The actual remaining lifetime risk of AD or dementia varies with age, sex, and life expectancy and is lower than the hypothetical risk estimated by a cumulative incidence in the same population.
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Mitral Annular Calcification Predicts Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality The Framingham Heart Study
Caroline S. Fox,Ramachandran S. Vasan,Helen Parise,Daniel Levy,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Ralph B. D'Agostino,Emelia J. Benjamin +6 more
TL;DR: The independent association of MAC with incident CVD and CVD death underscores that cardiac calcification is a marker of increased CVD risk.
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Cytokines, insulin-like growth factor 1, sarcopenia, and mortality in very old community-dwelling men and women: the Framingham Heart Study
Ronenn Roubenoff,Helen Parise,Hélène A Payette,Hélène A Payette,Leslie W. Abad,Ralph B. D'Agostino,Paul F. Jacques,Peter W.F. Wilson,Charles A. Dinarello,Tamara B. Harris +9 more
TL;DR: Greater levels or production of the catabolic cytokines TNF-alpha and interleukin 6 are associated with increased mortality in community-dwelling elderly adults, whereas IGF-1 levels had the opposite effect.