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Toke Bek
Researcher at Aarhus University Hospital
Publications - 258
Citations - 10428
Toke Bek is an academic researcher from Aarhus University Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Retinal & Diabetic retinopathy. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 231 publications receiving 8507 citations. Previous affiliations of Toke Bek include University of Iceland & Aarhus University.
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Global Prevalence and Major Risk Factors of Diabetic Retinopathy
Joanne W.Y. Yau,Sophie Rogers,Ryo Kawasaki,Ecosse L. Lamoureux,Ecosse L. Lamoureux,Jonathan W. Kowalski,Toke Bek,Shih-Jen Chen,Jacqueline M. Dekker,Astrid E. Fletcher,Jakob Grauslund,Steven M. Haffner,Richard F. Hamman,M. Kamran Ikram,Takamasa Kayama,Barbara E. K. Klein,Ronald Klein,Sannapaneni Krishnaiah,Korapat Mayurasakorn,J. P. O'Hare,Trevor J. Orchard,Massimo Porta,Mohan Rema,Monique S. Roy,Tarun Sharma,Jonathan E. Shaw,Hugh R. Taylor,James M. Tielsch,Rohit Varma,Jie Jin Wang,Ningli Wang,Sheila K. West,Liang Xu,Miho Yasuda,Xinzhi Zhang,Paul Mitchell,Tien Yin Wong,Tien Yin Wong,Tien Yin Wong +38 more
TL;DR: Longer diabetes duration and poorer glycemic and blood pressure control are strongly associated with DR, and these data highlight the substantial worldwide public health burden of DR and the importance of modifiable risk factors in its occurrence.
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Global prevalence and major risk factors of diabetic retinopathy.
Olubukola Ajala,Patrick English,Jonathan Pinkney,Joanne W.Y. Yau,Sophie Rogers,Ryo Kawasaki,Ecosse L. Lamoureux,Jonathan W. Kowalski,Toke Bek,Shih-Jen Chen,Jacqueline M. Dekker,Astrid E. Fletcher,Jakob Grauslund,Steven M. Haffner,Richard F. Hamman,M. Kamran Ikram,Takamasa Kayama,Barbara E. K. Klein,Ronald Klein,Sannapaneni Krishnaiah,Korapat Mayurasakorn,J. P. O'Hare,Trevor J. Orchard,Massimo Porta,Mohan Rema,Monique S. Roy,Tarun Sharma,Jonathan E. Shaw,Hugh R. Taylor,James M. Tielsch,Rohit Varma,Jie Jin Wang,Ningli Wang,Sheila K. West,Liang Xu,Miho Yasuda,Xinzhi Zhang,Paul Mitchell,Tien Yin Wong +38 more
TL;DR: The Meta-Analysis for Eye Disease (META-EYE) Study Group’s Global Prevalence and Major Risk Factors of Diabetic Retinopathy and Diabetes care, 35 (3).
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A decamer duplication in the 3′ region of the BRI gene originates an amyloid peptide that is associated with dementia in a Danish kindred
Ruben Vidal,Tamas Revesz,Agueda Rostagno,Eugene Kim,Janice L. Holton,Toke Bek,Marie Bojsen-Møller,Hans Brændgaard,Gordon T. Plant,Jorge Ghiso,Blas Frangione +10 more
TL;DR: A de novo-created amyloidogenic peptide, associated with a genetic defect in the Danish kindred, stresses the importance of amyloids formation as a causative factor in neurodegeneration and dementia.
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Screening and prevention of diabetic blindness.
Einar Stefánsson,Toke Bek,Massimo Porta,Nikolaj Larsen,Jóhannes Kári Kristinsson,Elisabet Agardh +5 more
TL;DR: The organisation and methods of screening programs for diabetic eye disease screening programs are described including direct and photographic screening and technical advantages may allow increased efficiency and telescreening.
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Use of the retinal vessel analyzer in ocular blood flow research.
Gerhard Garhöfer,Toke Bek,Andreas G. Boehm,Doina Gherghel,Juan E. Grunwald,Peter Friis Jeppesen,Hélène Kergoat,Konstantin Kotliar,Ines Lanzl,John V. Lovasik,Edgar Nagel,Walthard Vilser,Selim Orgül,Leopold Schmetterer +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a standard instrument for the continuous online determination of retinal vessel diameters, the commercially available Retinal vessel analyzer, which is intended to provide informed guidelines for measuring ocular blood flow with this system.