scispace - formally typeset
R

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.

Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Factor Analysis of Metabolic Syndrome Using Directly Measured Insulin Sensitivity The Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study

TL;DR: Investigation of the clustering of physiologic variables using data from 1,087 nondiabetic participants in the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study (IRAS) identified two underlying factors among a group of metabolic syndrome variables in this dataset.
Journal ArticleDOI

Marital status, marital strain, and risk of coronary heart disease or total mortality: The Framingham offspring study.

TL;DR: The study suggests that marital communication, conflict, and strain are associated with adverse health outcomes and further research into the influence of marital stress on health is merited.
Journal ArticleDOI

Low-Grade Albuminuria and the Risks of Hypertension and Blood Pressure Progression

TL;DR: Urinary albumin excretion predicts blood pressure progression in nondiabetic, nonhypertensive individuals incrementally over established risk factors and at levels well below the conventional threshold for microalbuminuria, which may be a useful biomarker for identifying individuals most likely to develop hypertension.
Journal ArticleDOI

Curcumin, a cancer chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic agent, is a biologically active iron chelator

TL;DR: Curcumin exerted profound 2 effects on systemic iron, inducing a dose-dependent decline in hematocrit, hemoglobin, serum iron, and transferrin saturation, the appearance of microcytic anisocytotic red blood cells, and decreases in spleen and liver iron content.
Journal ArticleDOI

Adult height and the risk of cause-specific death and vascular morbidity in 1 million people: individual participant meta-analysis

David Wormser, +271 more
TL;DR: Adult height has directionally opposing relationships with risk of death from several different major causes of chronic diseases.