The New England journal of medicine (N Engl J Med)

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1 The effect of intensive treatment of diabetes on the development and progression of long-term complications in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research Group. 1993 102.56
2 Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin. 2002 101.79
3 Radiotherapy plus concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide for glioblastoma. 2005 74.55
4 Activating mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor underlying responsiveness of non-small-cell lung cancer to gefitinib. 2004 71.08
5 Prevention of HIV-1 infection with early antiretroviral therapy. 2011 69.36
6 Improved survival with ipilimumab in patients with metastatic melanoma. 2010 67.34
7 Vitamin D deficiency. 2007 59.34
8 Atherosclerosis--an inflammatory disease. 1999 59.28
9 A gene-expression signature as a predictor of survival in breast cancer. 2002 58.15
10 Prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus by changes in lifestyle among subjects with impaired glucose tolerance. 2001 56.11
11 Sorafenib in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. 2008 54.30
12 Declining morbidity and mortality among patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection. HIV Outpatient Study Investigators. 1998 53.26
13 Safety, activity, and immune correlates of anti-PD-1 antibody in cancer. 2012 52.99
14 Early goal-directed therapy in the treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock. 2001 51.99
15 The quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States. 2003 50.33
16 Preexposure chemoprophylaxis for HIV prevention in men who have sex with men. 2010 50.17
17 Chronic kidney disease and the risks of death, cardiovascular events, and hospitalization. 2004 49.19
18 Bevacizumab plus irinotecan, fluorouracil, and leucovorin for metastatic colorectal cancer. 2004 49.02
19 Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome. The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network. 2000 48.03
20 Effects of intensive glucose lowering in type 2 diabetes. 2008 47.90
21 Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke rt-PA Stroke Study Group. 1995 47.15
22 Gefitinib or carboplatin-paclitaxel in pulmonary adenocarcinoma. 2009 46.35
23 Improved survival with vemurafenib in melanoma with BRAF V600E mutation. 2011 45.46
24 Use of chemotherapy plus a monoclonal antibody against HER2 for metastatic breast cancer that overexpresses HER2. 2001 44.67
25 Intratumor heterogeneity and branched evolution revealed by multiregion sequencing. 2012 44.56
26 Rosuvastatin to prevent vascular events in men and women with elevated C-reactive protein. 2008 43.36
27 Emergence of a novel swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus in humans. 2009 42.75
28 Viral load and heterosexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1. Rakai Project Study Group. 2000 41.18
29 Computed tomography--an increasing source of radiation exposure. 2007 41.06
30 A multigene assay to predict recurrence of tamoxifen-treated, node-negative breast cancer. 2004 41.02
31 Intensive insulin therapy in critically ill patients. 2001 40.00
32 Dabigatran versus warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation. 2009 39.97
33 Adherence to medication. 2005 39.77
34 Sunitinib versus interferon alfa in metastatic renal-cell carcinoma. 2007 39.39
35 An association between air pollution and mortality in six U.S. cities. 1993 38.84
36 Incidence of adverse events and negligence in hospitalized patients. Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study I. 1991 38.78
37 Intensive blood glucose control and vascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes. 2008 38.76
38 Reduced lung-cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomographic screening. 2011 38.61
39 Anaplastic lymphoma kinase inhibition in non-small-cell lung cancer. 2010 36.78
40 Inhibition of mutated, activated BRAF in metastatic melanoma. 2010 36.57
41 Peginterferon alfa-2a plus ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C virus infection. 2002 36.55
42 Staphylococcus aureus infections. 1998 36.39
43 Screening and prostate-cancer mortality in a randomized European study. 2009 35.94
44 The occurrence of sleep-disordered breathing among middle-aged adults. 1993 35.93
45 Rehospitalizations among patients in the Medicare fee-for-service program. 2009 35.68
46 10-year follow-up of intensive glucose control in type 2 diabetes. 2008 35.49
47 Overweight, obesity, and mortality from cancer in a prospectively studied cohort of U.S. adults. 2003 35.39
48 Tumor angiogenesis: therapeutic implications. 1971 35.36
49 Safety and activity of anti-PD-L1 antibody in patients with advanced cancer. 2012 35.24
50 The spread of obesity in a large social network over 32 years. 2007 34.75
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