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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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Obesity, diabetes and cognitive deficit: The Framingham Heart Study
Merrill F. Elias,Merrill F. Elias,Penelope K. Elias,Penelope K. Elias,Lisa M. Sullivan,Philip A. Wolf,Ralph B. D'Agostino +6 more
TL;DR: The gender-specific results for obesity, but not for diabetes, suggests that the underlying mechanisms linking them to cognition may be different.
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Abdominal Subcutaneous and Visceral Adipose Tissue and Insulin Resistance in the Framingham Heart Study
Sarah R. Preis,Joseph M. Massaro,Sander J. Robins,Udo Hoffmann,Ramachandran S. Vasan,Thomas Irlbeck,James B. Meigs,Patrice Sutherland,Ralph B. D'Agostino,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Caroline S. Fox,Caroline S. Fox +12 more
TL;DR: SAT and VAT are both correlates of insulin Resistance; however, VAT is a stronger correlate of insulin resistance than SAT, where VAT had a stronger association in obese individuals.
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Secular trends in stroke incidence and mortality. The Framingham Study.
Philip A. Wolf,Ralph B. D'Agostino,M A O'Neal,Pamela A. Sytkowski,Carlos S. Kase,Albert J. Belanger,William B. Kannel +6 more
TL;DR: While a significant decline in stroke severity occurred over three decades, incidence of infarction fell only in women, and the decline in total case fatality rates occurred only in men and resulted largely from an increased incidence of isolated transient ischemic attacks.
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NIDDM and Blood Pressure as Risk Factors for Poor Cognitive Performance: The Framingham Study
Penelope K. Elias,Merrill F. Elias,Ralph B. D'Agostino,L. A. Cupples,Peter W. F. Wilson,Halit Silbershatz,Philip A. Wolf +6 more
TL;DR: NIDDM and blood pressure interacted such that diagnosis and duration of NIDDM were associated with greater risk of poor performance on tests of visual memory and on the composite score for hypertensive subjects.
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Effect of aging on A1C levels in individuals without diabetes: evidence from the Framingham Offspring Study and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001-2004.
Lydie N. Pani,Leslie Korenda,James B. Meigs,Cynthia Driver,Shadi Chamany,Caroline S. Fox,Lisa M. Sullivan,Ralph B. D'Agostino,David M. Nathan +8 more
TL;DR: A1C levels are positively associated with age in nondiabetic populations even after exclusion of subjects with impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and/or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), and after adjustments for sex, BMI, fasting glucose, and 2-h postload glucose values.