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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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The epidemiology of diabetes complications study. IV. Correlates of diabetic background and proliferative retinopathy.

TL;DR: Results suggest that diabetic nephropathy may contribute to the development of proliferative (but not background) retinopathy by increasing blood pressure and fibrinogen, by altering the lipoprotein profile, and possibly through other mechanisms.
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Intraocular Pressure and Cardiovascular Risk Variables

TL;DR: Intraocular pressure was correlated positively with systemic blood pressure in all groups and with hematocrit reading, sedimentation rate, pulse rate, and serum cholesterol level was not consistent in the four race-sex groups.
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Sunlight and the 10-year incidence of age-related maculopathy the beaver dam eye study

TL;DR: No relationships were found between UV-B exposure, winter leisure time spent outdoors, skin sun sensitivity, or number of bad sunburns experienced by the time of the baseline examination and the 10-year incidence and progression of ARM or its associated lesions.
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Age-related macular degeneration and risk for stroke.

TL;DR: The relationship between AMD and incident clinical stroke in a large, population-based cohort of men and women is described and the likelihood that early AMD is a risk factor for stroke is increased.