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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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Hypertensive Retinal Vessel Wall Signs in a General Older Population. The Blue Mountains Eye Study
TL;DR: A strong relation between presence and severity of hypertension and retinal microvascular structural changes is demonstrated in an older white population.
Cardiovascular Disease, Mortality, and Retinal Microvascular Characteristics in Type 1 Diabetes
Barbara E.K. Klein,Ronald Klein,Patrick E. McBride,Karen J. Cruickshanks,Mari Palta,Michael D. Knudtson,Scot E. Moss,Jennifer O. Reinke +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the 20-year age-adjusted cumulative incidences were 18.1% for angina, 14.8% for myocardial infarction, and 5.9% for stroke.
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Retinal microvascular abnormalities and renal dysfunction: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
Tien Yin Wong,Tien Yin Wong,Josef Coresh,Ronald Klein,Paul Muntner,David Couper,A. Richey Sharrett,Barbara E.K. Klein,Gerardo Heiss,Larry D. Hubbard,Bruce Bartholow Duncan +10 more
TL;DR: Retinal microvascular abnormalities are associated with renal dysfunction, suggesting that common systemic microv vascular processes may underlie the development of microVascular damage in the eye and kidneys.
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Retinal vascular calibre and the risk of coronary heart disease-related death
TL;DR: Findings suggest that microvascular disease processes may have a role in CHD development in middle-aged people, particularly in women, and retinal photography may be useful in cardiovascular risk prediction.
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Diabetic retinopathy in Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites.
Steven M. Haffner,Donald S. Fong,Michael P. Stern,Jacqueline A. Pugh,Helen P. Hazuda,Judith K. Patterson,W. A. J. Van Heuven,Ronald Klein +7 more
TL;DR: The combination of an increased prevalence of NIDDM in MAs plus an increased severity of retinopathy in those MAs who have diabetes suggests that a major public health effort should be made to screen this ethnic group forretinopathy.