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Ronald Klein

Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Publications -  1306
Citations -  163459

Ronald Klein is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Diabetes mellitus. The author has an hindex of 194, co-authored 1305 publications receiving 149140 citations. Previous affiliations of Ronald Klein include Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute & Wake Forest University.

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Association of leisure-time noise exposure and hearing loss.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the association of noisy leisure activities with hearing loss and found that individuals who engaged in woodworking were 30 percent more likely to have a hearing loss than those who had never done woodworking.
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Is diabetic retinopathy related to subclinical cardiovascular disease

TL;DR: In persons with diabetes without a history of clinical CVD, the presence of advanced-stage DR is associated with subclinical coronary artery disease and the need to be careful about the use of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor for the treatment of DR is emphasized.
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Alcohol Use and Age-related Maculopathy in the Beaver Dam Eye Study

TL;DR: A relationship between beer consumption and greater odds of having exudative macular degeneration is suggested, whether this is from a toxic effect specific to beer or from other unknown confounders cannot be determined.
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Longitudinal Studies of Incidence and Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy Assessed by Retinal Photography in Pima Indians

TL;DR: Although retinopathy tends to worsen over time, some eyes show improvement, especially in patients with minimal nonproliferative retinopathies, as in other populations, glycemic control is the major modifiable risk factor for the development and progression ofretinopathy.
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Incident cataract after a five-year interval and lifestyle factors: the Beaver Dam eye study.

TL;DR: Cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption were associated with modestly increased risks of incident nuclear cataract over a five-year interval.