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Robin Walker

- Verified email at ucalgary.ca - Cited by 2337

Robin L Walker

- Verified email at sruc.ac.uk - Cited by 318

Cardiovascular outcomes in Framingham participants with diabetes: the importance of blood pressure

G Chen, FA McAlister, RL Walker, BR Hemmelgarn… - …, 2011 - Am Heart Assoc
We designed this study to explore to what extent the excess risk of cardiovascular events in
diabetic individuals is attributable to hypertension. We retrospectively analyzed prospectively …

[HTML][HTML] Trade-offs between economic and environmental impacts of introducing legumes into cropping systems

…, FL Stoddard, PM Zander, RL Walker… - Frontiers in plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Europe's agriculture is highly specialized, dependent on external inputs and responsible for
negative environmental impacts. Legume crops are grown on less than 2% of the arable …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring agreement of administrative data with chart data using prevalence unadjusted and adjusted kappa

G Chen, P Faris, B Hemmelgarn, RL Walker… - BMC medical research …, 2009 - Springer
Background Kappa is commonly used when assessing the agreement of conditions with
reference standard, but has been criticized for being highly dependent on the prevalence. To …

Nitrous oxide emissions and nitrate leaching in an arable rotation resulting from the presence of an intercrop

VA Pappa, RM Rees, RL Walker, JA Baddeley… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2011 - Elsevier
The effects of cereal legume intercropping on nitrogen dynamics and losses from an arable
rotation are reported. The main hypotheses were that: (a) intercrops can reduce nitrous oxide …

Increases in antihypertensive prescriptions and reductions in cardiovascular events in Canada

NRC Campbell, R Brant, H Johansen, RL Walker… - …, 2009 - Am Heart Assoc
The Canadian Hypertension Education Program, an extensive professional education program
to improve the management of hypertension, was started in 1999. There were very large …

Methane-derived carbon flows into host–virus networks at different trophic levels in soil

…, ET Sieradzki, AM Nicolas, RL Walker… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The concentration of atmospheric methane (CH 4 ) continues to increase with microbial
communities controlling soil–atmosphere fluxes. While there is substantial knowledge of the …

[HTML][HTML] Increasing crop rotational diversity can enhance cereal yields

…, F Tei, CFE Topp, D Ventrella, RL Walker… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Diversifying agriculture by rotating a greater number of crop species in sequence is a promising
practice to reduce negative impacts of crop production on the environment and maintain …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative nitrogen balance and productivity analysis of legume and non-legume supported cropping systems: the potential role of biological nitrogen …

…, M Reckling, CFE Topp, RL Walker… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The potential of biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) to provide sufficient N for production has
encouraged re-appraisal of cropping systems that deploy legumes. It has been argued that …

Responses of plant growth rate to nitrogen supply: a comparison of relative addition and N interruption treatments

RL Walker, IG Burns, J Moorby - Journal of experimental botany, 2001 - academic.oup.com
This paper investigates the effects of uptake of nitrate and the availability of internal N
reserves on growth rate in times of restricted supply, and examines the extent to which the …

Incidence, cardiovascular complications and mortality of hypertension by sex and ethnicity

H Quan, G Chen, RL Walker, A Wielgosz, S Dai, K Tu… - Heart, 2013 - heart.bmj.com
Objective To compare ethnic and sex difference in the incidence of newly diagnosed
hypertension, and subsequent risk of cardiovascular disease outcomes among South Asian, …