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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
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  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Heart Association
  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Ralph B. D'Agostino was a researcher affiliated with Wake Forest University in the United States. Their work primarily focused on medicine, with extensive contributions in the subfields of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and genetics.

D'Agostino's research covered a range of topics including diabetes management and research, diabetes and associated disorders, chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity and mitigation, cardiovascular function and risk factors, cardiac imaging and diagnostics, diabetes, cardiovascular risks and lipoproteins, as well as lung cancer treatments and mutations.

The scientist collaborated frequently with peers such as Dana Dabelea, Catherine Pihoker, Lawrence M. Dolan, Santica M. Marcovina, and Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis.

D'Agostino published numerous papers and was regularly featured in venues like Diabetes Care, UNC Libraries, Diabetes, Pediatric Diabetes, and the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Recent papers included:

  • Physical distancing interventions and incidence of coronavirus disease 2019: natural experiment in 149 countries (2020, BMJ)
  • Sarcopenia Definition: The Position Statements of the Sarcopenia Definition and Outcomes Consortium (2020, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society)
  • Phosphorylation of PDHA by AMPK Drives TCA Cycle to Promote Cancer Metastasis (2020, Molecular Cell)
  • RETRACTED ARTICLE: Nicotine promotes breast cancer metastasis by stimulating N2 neutrophils and generating pre-metastatic niche in lung (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Long-term outcomes after catheter-based renal artery denervation for resistant hypertension: final follow-up of the randomised SYMPLICITY HTN-3 Trial (2022, The Lancet)

Throughout their career, Ralph B. D'Agostino received recognition as a Fellow of the American Heart Association in 1991 and as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Using Risk Factor Categories

    Peter W. F. Wilson;Ralph B. D’Agostino;Daniel Levy;Albert M. Belanger

  • Propensity score methods for bias reduction in the comparison of a treatment to a non‐randomized control group

    Ralph B. D’Agostino

  • General Cardiovascular Risk Profile for Use in Primary Care The Framingham Heart Study

    Ralph B. D’Agostino;Ramachandran S. Vasan;Michael J. Pencina;Philip A. Wolf

  • The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI): A Multidimensional Self-Report Instrument for the Assessment of Female Sexual Function

    R. Rosen;Candace Brown;J. Heiman;S. Leiblum

  • Evaluating the added predictive ability of a new marker: From area under the ROC curve to reclassification and beyond

    Michael J Pencina;Ralph B D'Agostino;Ramachandran S Vasan

  • 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines

    David C. Goff;Donald M. Lloyd-Jones;Glen Bennett;Sean Coady

  • Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on the Risk of Death The Framingham Heart Study

    Emelia J. Benjamin;Philip A. Wolf;Ralph B. D’Agostino;Halit Silbershatz

  • TUTORIAL IN BIOSTATISTICS PROPENSITY SCORE METHODS FOR BIAS REDUCTION IN THE COMPARISON OF A TREATMENT TO A NON-RANDOMIZED CONTROL GROUP

    Ralph B. D'agostino

  • Association of Sleep-Disordered Breathing, Sleep Apnea, and Hypertension in a Large Community-Based Study

    F. Javier Nieto;Terry B. Young;Bonnie K. Lind;Eyal Shahar

  • Independent risk factors for atrial fibrillation in a population-based cohort. The Framingham Heart Study.

    Emelia J. Benjamin;Daniel Levy;Sonya M. Vaziri;Ralph B. D'Agostino

  • Plasma Homocysteine as a Risk Factor for Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

    Sudha Seshadri;Alexa Beiser;Jacob Selhub;Paul F Jacques

  • Goodness-of-Fit-Techniques

    Ralph B D'Agostino;Michael A Stephens

  • Chronic Subclinical Inflammation as Part of the Insulin Resistance Syndrome The Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study (IRAS)

    Andreas Festa;Ralph D’Agostino;George Howard;Leena Mykkänen

  • Vitamin D Deficiency and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

    Thomas J. Wang;Michael J. Pencina;Sarah L. Booth;Paul F. Jacques

  • Abdominal visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue compartments: association with metabolic risk factors in the Framingham Heart Study.

    Caroline S. Fox;Joseph M. Massaro;Udo Hoffmann;Karla M. Pou

  • Lifetime risk for development of atrial fibrillation: the Framingham Heart Study.

    Donald M. Lloyd-Jones;Thomas J. Wang;Thomas J. Wang;Eric P. Leip;Eric P. Leip;Martin G. Larson;Martin G. Larson

  • Goodness-of-Fit Techniques

    James A. Koziol;Ralph B. D'Agostino;Michael A. Stephens

  • Validation of the Framingham coronary heart disease prediction scores: results of a multiple ethnic groups investigation.

    Ralph B. D'Agostino;Ralph B. D'Agostino;Scott M Grundy;Lisa M. Sullivan;Lisa M. Sullivan;Peter Wilson;Peter Wilson

  • Overweight and obesity as determinants of cardiovascular risk: the Framingham experience.

    Peter W. F. Wilson;Ralph B. D'Agostino;Lisa Sullivan;Helen Parise

  • Age-specific Incidence Rates of Myocardial Infarction and Angina in Women With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Comparison With the Framingham Study

    Susan Manzi;Elaine N Meilahn;Joan E Rairie;Claudia G. Conte

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramachandran S. Vasan
Ramachandran S. Vasan The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Philip A. Wolf
Philip A. Wolf Boston University
Michael J. Pencina
Michael J. Pencina Duke University
Joseph M. Massaro
Joseph M. Massaro Boston University
Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy National Institutes of Health
Christopher J. O'Donnell
Christopher J. O'Donnell Harvard Medical School
Peter W.F. Wilson
Peter W.F. Wilson Emory University
Caroline S. Fox
Caroline S. Fox MSD (United States)
Emelia J. Benjamin
Emelia J. Benjamin Boston University
William B. Kannel
William B. Kannel Boston University

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