Browsing by Author "D'Agostino, Ralph B."
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Burden and Rates of Treatment and Control of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Obesity
Molenaar, Esther A.; Hwang, Shih-Jen; Vasan, Ramachandran S.; Grobbee, Diederick E.; Meigs, James Benjamin; D'Agostino, Ralph B.; Levy, Daniel; Fox, Caroline (American Diabetes Association, 2008)OBJECTIVE—Obesity is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). We sought to determine rates of treatment and control of CVD risk factors among normal weight, overweight, and obese individuals in ... -
Cardiovascular Event Prediction and Risk Reclassification by Coronary, Aortic, and Valvular Calcification in the Framingham Heart Study
Hoffmann, Udo; Massaro, Joseph M.; D'Agostino, Ralph B.; Kathiresan, Sekar; Fox, Caroline S.; O'Donnell, Christopher J. (John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2016)Background: We determined whether vascular and valvular calcification predicted incident major coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and all‐cause mortality independent of Framingham risk factors in the ... -
Genetic Risk Reclassification for Type 2 Diabetes by Age Below or Above 50 Years Using 40 Type 2 Diabetes Risk Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
de Miguel-Yanes, Jose M.; Shrader, Peter; Pencina, Michael J.; Dupuis, Josèe; D'Agostino, Ralph B.; Cupples, L. Adrienne; Fox, Caroline; Manning, Alisa K; Grant, Richard William; Florez, Jose Carlos; Meigs, James Benjamin (American Diabetes Association, 2011)OBJECTIVE: To test if knowledge of type 2 diabetes genetic variants improves disease prediction. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: We tested 40 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with diabetes in 3,471 Framingham ...