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The contribution of expanding portion sizes to the US obesity epidemic. Am J Public Health (2002) 3.81
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Measuring the prevalence of overweight in Texas schoolchildren. Am J Public Health (2004) 1.97
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Environmental estrogens and obesity. Mol Cell Endocrinol (2009) 1.91
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Patterns of childhood obesity prevention legislation in the United States. Prev Chronic Dis (2007) 1.86
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The 2030 problem: caring for aging baby boomers. Health Serv Res (2002) 1.74
Small-area estimation and prioritizing communities for obesity control in Massachusetts. Am J Public Health (2009) 1.73
Increasing hip fracture incidence in California Hispanics, 1983 to 2000. Osteoporos Int (2004) 1.72
Obesity and diabetes in Jordan: findings from the behavioral risk factor surveillance system, 2004. Prev Chronic Dis (2007) 1.72
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Gender-ethnic disparity in BMI and waist circumference distribution shifts in US adults. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2008) 1.68
Treatment of obesity with extension of sleep duration: a randomized, prospective, controlled trial. Clin Trials (2010) 1.67
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Preventing weight gain in first year college students: an online intervention to prevent the "freshman fifteen". Eat Behav (2009) 1.61
The case for low carbohydrate diets in diabetes management. Nutr Metab (Lond) (2005) 1.61
A major predisposition locus for severe obesity, at 4p15-p14. Am J Hum Genet (2002) 1.60
Objective physical activity accumulation in bouts and nonbouts and relation to markers of obesity in US adults. Prev Chronic Dis (2008) 1.59
Activation of NF-kappaB by palmitate in endothelial cells: a key role for NADPH oxidase-derived superoxide in response to TLR4 activation. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2009) 1.58
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Temporal patterns in overweight and obesity in Type 1 diabetes. Diabet Med (2010) 1.56
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Demographic and behavioral factors associated with daily sugar-sweetened soda consumption in New York City adults. J Urban Health (2008) 1.52
Identification and management of overweight and obesity by internal medicine residents. J Gen Intern Med (2005) 1.50
Health behaviors of the young adult U.S. population: behavioral risk factor surveillance system, 2003. Prev Chronic Dis (2007) 1.50
Neural mechanisms underlying food motivation in children and adolescents. Neuroimage (2005) 1.48
The implications of maternal overweight and obesity on the course of pregnancy and birth outcomes. Matern Child Health J (2006) 1.47
Weight gain trends across sociodemographic groups in the United States. Am J Public Health (2005) 1.47
Health care expenditures associated with overweight and obesity among US adults: importance of age and race. Am J Public Health (2005) 1.45
An instrumental variables approach to measuring the effect of body weight on employment disability. Health Serv Res (2000) 1.43
The life course of severe obesity: does childhood overweight matter? J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci (2003) 1.42
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Association between body size and composition and erectile dysfunction in older men: Osteoporotic Fractures in Men Study. J Am Geriatr Soc (2013) 1.41
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Kidney stone risk following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. Transl Androl Urol (2014) 1.39
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Nonadherence to breast and cervical cancer screening: what are the linkages to chronic disease risk? Prev Chronic Dis (2003) 1.35
Longitudinal association of body mass index with lung function: the CARDIA study. Respir Res (2008) 1.33
Liver diseases and metabolic syndrome. J Gastroenterol (2008) 1.33
The obesity epidemic as harbinger of a metabolic disorder epidemic: trends in overweight, hypercholesterolemia, and diabetes treatment in Geneva, Switzerland, 1993-2003. Am J Public Health (2005) 1.33
Obesity and fat quantification in lean tissues using three-point Dixon MR imaging. Pediatr Radiol (2005) 1.31
Improved weight management using genetic information to personalize a calorie controlled diet. Nutr J (2007) 1.30
A prospective study of weight gain during the college freshman and sophomore years. Prev Med (2008) 1.29
Association between late-life body mass index and dementia: The Kame Project. Neurology (2009) 1.28
Correlates of overweight and obesity among lesbian and bisexual women. Prev Med (2003) 1.28
Faster absorption of ethanol and higher peak concentration in women after gastric bypass surgery. Br J Clin Pharmacol (2002) 1.28
Change in diet, physical activity, and body weight among young-adults during the transition from high school to college. Nutr J (2009) 1.28
Increased body mass index has a deleterious effect on in vitro fertilization outcome. J Assist Reprod Genet (2001) 1.27
Immigrant obesity and unhealthy assimilation: alternative estimates of convergence or divergence, 1995-2005. Soc Sci Med (2009) 1.27
Body mass index and blood pressure screening in a rural public school system: the Healthy Kids Project. Prev Chronic Dis (2006) 1.25
Gender differences in obstructive sleep apnea and treatment implications. Sleep Med Rev (2008) 1.25
Alcohol consumption and body weight. Health Econ (2010) 1.25
Using small-area estimation method to calculate county-level prevalence of obesity in Mississippi, 2007-2009. Prev Chronic Dis (2011) 1.24
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Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis and its relation to back pain among older men: the MrOS Study. Semin Arthritis Rheum (2011) 1.22
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Childhood overweight in a New York City WIC population. Am J Public Health (2004) 1.21
The effect of the Thanksgiving holiday on weight gain. Nutr J (2006) 1.21
Meta-analysis: pioglitazone improves liver histology and fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Aliment Pharmacol Ther (2011) 1.21
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Weight loss and weight loss maintenance in African-American women. J Natl Med Assoc (2002) 1.16
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Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. Am J Prev Med (1998) 31.43
The disease burden associated with overweight and obesity. JAMA (1999) 19.39
Predicting obesity in young adulthood from childhood and parental obesity. N Engl J Med (1997) 19.30
The continuing epidemics of obesity and diabetes in the United States. JAMA (2001) 14.84
The relation of overweight to cardiovascular risk factors among children and adolescents: the Bogalusa Heart Study. Pediatrics (1999) 11.20
Health consequences of obesity in youth: childhood predictors of adult disease. Pediatrics (1998) 10.51
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Obesity evaluation and treatment: Expert Committee recommendations. The Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services. Pediatrics (1998) 8.76
Health literacy among Medicare enrollees in a managed care organization. JAMA (1999) 8.63
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Health reform and the health of the public. Forging community health partnerships. JAMA (1994) 6.18
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The relationship between method of physician payment and patient trust. JAMA (1998) 5.56
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Television viewing as a cause of increasing obesity among children in the United States, 1986-1990. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (1996) 4.91
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Current smoking trends in the United States. The 1981-1983 behavioral risk factor surveys. JAMA (1985) 4.51
The effect of known risk factors on the excess mortality of black adults in the United States. JAMA (1990) 4.45
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Workshop on childhood obesity: summary of the discussion. Am J Clin Nutr (1999) 3.62
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Review of the epidemiologic evidence for an association between infant feeding and infant health. Pediatrics (1984) 2.27
Excess deaths from nine chronic diseases in the United States, 1986. JAMA (1990) 2.25
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Pertussis vaccine--an analysis of benefits, risks and costs. N Engl J Med (1979) 1.75
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Cigarette smoking in China. Prevalence, characteristics, and attitudes in Minhang District. JAMA (1995) 1.72
Recent trends in the identification and treatment of high blood cholesterol by physicians. Progress and missed opportunities. JAMA (1993) 1.69
Results of an international round robin for serum and whole-blood folate. Clin Chem (1996) 1.68
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The behavioral risk factor surveys: III. Chronic heavy alcohol use in the United States. Am J Prev Med (1988) 1.60
Pertussis and pertussis vaccine. Reanalysis of benefits, risks, and costs. JAMA (1984) 1.59
Preventing neonatal herpes. The value of weekly viral cultures in pregnant women with recurrent genital herpes. JAMA (1984) 1.59
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