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Neil Pearce

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1 A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012 50.94
2 Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012 41.47
3 Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012 26.95
4 Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012 11.32
5 Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. Lancet 2015 7.99
6 Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition. Lancet 2015 6.13
7 UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2013 6.11
8 [Corporate influences on epidemiology]. Epidemiol Prev 2008 4.59
9 Maternal complications and procedures in pregnancy and at birth and wheezing phenotypes in children. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006 2.56
10 Measuring cancer survival in populations: relative survival vs cancer-specific survival. Int J Epidemiol 2010 2.48
11 The INTERPHONE study: design, epidemiological methods, and description of the study population. Eur J Epidemiol 2007 2.30
12 Chronic bronchitis, COPD, and lung function in farmers: the role of biological agents. Chest 2009 1.98
13 Gender differences in occupational exposure patterns. Occup Environ Med 2011 1.72
14 Socio-economic factors and mortality among 25-64 year olds followed from 1991 to 1994: the New Zealand Census-Mortality Study. N Z Med J 2002 1.70
15 Antibiotic sales and the prevalence of symptoms of asthma, rhinitis, and eczema: The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC). Int J Epidemiol 2004 1.68
16 Tackling non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: is the evidence from high-income countries all we need? PLoS Med 2013 1.67
17 Is hypertension associated with job strain? A meta-analysis of observational studies. Occup Environ Med 2013 1.60
18 Can bacterial endotoxin exposure reverse atopy and atopic disease? J Allergy Clin Immunol 2004 1.54
19 A New Zealand linkage study examining the associations between A1C concentration and mortality. Diabetes Care 2008 1.48
20 Temporal trends in the incidence of childhood leukemia, lymphomas and solid tumors in north-west Italy, 1967-2001. A report of the Childhood Cancer Registry of Piedmont. Haematologica 2005 1.48
21 Commentary: The end of the hygiene hypothesis? Int J Epidemiol 2008 1.45
22 Feasibility of recruiting a birth cohort through the Internet: the experience of the NINFEA cohort. Eur J Epidemiol 2007 1.42
23 A test-negative design with additional population controls can be used to rapidly study causes of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. Epidemiology 2020 1.40
24 Mortality rates according to occupation in New Zealand males: 2001-2005. N Z Med J 2011 1.39
25 Commentary: Representativeness is usually not necessary and often should be avoided. Int J Epidemiol 2013 1.37
26 Epidemiology, public health, and the rhetoric of false positives. Environ Health Perspect 2009 1.37
27 Prevention and control of diabetes in Pacific people. BMJ 2003 1.36
28 European experience of laparoscopic major hepatectomy. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Sci 2013 1.33
29 Infections, medication use, and the prevalence of symptoms of asthma, rhinitis, and eczema in childhood. J Epidemiol Community Health 2004 1.30
30 Hospital volume, proportion resected and mortality from oesophageal and gastric cancer: a population-based study in England, 2004-2008. Gut 2012 1.29
31 Asthma and the westernization 'package'. Int J Epidemiol 2002 1.25
32 Self-reported truck traffic on the street of residence and symptoms of asthma and allergic disease: a global relationship in ISAAC phase 3. Environ Health Perspect 2009 1.23
33 Case-control studies: basic concepts. Int J Epidemiol 2012 1.20
34 Compression, expansion, or dynamic equilibrium? The evolution of health expectancy in New Zealand. J Epidemiol Community Health 2004 1.19
35 Antibiotic use in infancy and symptoms of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema in children 6 and 7 years old: International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood Phase III. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2009 1.19
36 Invited commentary: is indoor mold exposure a risk factor for asthma? Am J Epidemiol 2003 1.18
37 Complications with Angio-Seal™ vascular closure devices compared with manual compression after diagnostic cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention. J Interv Cardiol 2013 1.13
38 Complexity, simplicity, and epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol 2006 1.11
39 Case-control study of high risk occupations for bladder cancer in New Zealand. Int J Cancer 2008 1.09
40 Differences in citation rates by country of origin for papers published in top-ranked medical journals: do they reflect inequalities in access to publication? J Epidemiol Community Health 2009 1.09
41 Point: Incident Exposures, Prevalent Exposures, and Causal Inference: Does Limiting Studies to Persons Who Are Followed From First Exposure Onward Damage Epidemiology? Am J Epidemiol 2015 1.08
42 Ethnic inequalities in cancer survival in New Zealand: linkage study. Am J Public Health 2005 1.08
43 Selection bias and patterns of confounding in cohort studies: the case of the NINFEA web-based birth cohort. J Epidemiol Community Health 2011 1.06
44 The hygiene hypothesis in allergy and asthma: an update. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 2013 1.05
45 Sample selection and validity of exposure-disease association estimates in cohort studies. J Epidemiol Community Health 2010 1.05
46 Cancer incidence in four pacific countries: Tonga, Fiji Islands, Cook Islands and Niue. Pac Health Dialog 2011 1.02
47 Prediagnostic body fat and risk of death from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: the EPIC cohort. Neurology 2013 1.02
48 Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival in New Zealand: the role of extent of disease at diagnosis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009 1.01
49 Statistical foundations for model-based adjustments. Annu Rev Public Health 2015 1.01
50 Mortality from lung cancer in workers exposed to sulfur dioxide in the pulp and paper industry. Environ Health Perspect 2002 1.00
51 Social class mortality differences in Maori and non-Maori men aged 15-64 during the last two decades. N Z Med J 2002 0.99
52 Cohort profile: the Boston Area Community Health (BACH) survey. Int J Epidemiol 2012 0.99
53 Socio-economic position is more than just NZDep. N Z Med J 2002 0.98
54 Missing heritability in genome-wide association study research. Nat Rev Genet 2010 0.98
55 Cancer in Pacific people in New Zealand: a descriptive study. Pac Health Dialog 2004 0.98
56 Exposure and dose modelling in occupational epidemiology. Occup Environ Med 2007 0.97
57 Incidence rates in dynamic populations. Int J Epidemiol 2012 0.95
58 Respiratory symptoms in children living near busy roads and their relationship to vehicular traffic: results of an Italian multicenter study (SIDRIA 2). Environ Health 2009 0.93
59 Regional variations in asthma hospitalisations among Maori and non-Maori. N Z Med J 2004 0.93
60 Lung cancer and occupation: A New Zealand cancer registry-based case-control study. Am J Ind Med 2010 0.92
61 Prevalence of undiagnosed metabolic syndrome in a population of adult asymptomatic subjects. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2006 0.92
62 Does comorbidity explain the ethnic inequalities in cervical cancer survival in New Zealand? A retrospective cohort study. BMC Cancer 2011 0.91
63 Prognostic factors in women with breast cancer: inequalities by ethnicity and socioeconomic position in New Zealand. Cancer Causes Control 2007 0.90
64 Demographic differences in stage at diagnosis and cervical cancer survival in New Zealand, 1994-2005. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2009 0.90
65 Determinants of non-response in an occupational exposure and health survey in New Zealand. Aust N Z J Public Health 2011 0.90
66 Bayesian methods for early detection of changes in childhood cancer incidence: trends for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia are consistent with an infectious aetiology. Eur J Cancer 2005 0.90
67 Selecting appropriate study designs to address specific research questions in occupational epidemiology. Occup Environ Med 2007 0.89
68 Comorbidity among patients with colon cancer in New Zealand. N Z Med J 2011 0.89
69 Effect modification of the association of cumulative exposure and cancer risk by intensity of exposure and time since exposure cessation: a flexible method applied to cigarette smoking and lung cancer in the SYNERGY Study. Am J Epidemiol 2013 0.89
70 Quantitative estimates of work-related death, disease and injury in New Zealand. Scand J Work Environ Health 2005 0.88
71 Occupational mortality studies: still relevant in the 21st century. Occup Environ Med 2010 0.87
72 Towards a comprehensive global approach to prevention and control of NCDs. Global Health 2014 0.86
73 The asbestos disease epidemic: here today, here tomorrow. Thorax 2011 0.86
74 Improving access to health care among New Zealand's Maori population. Am J Public Health 2006 0.86
75 A multi-ethnic breast cancer case-control study in New Zealand: evidence of differential risk patterns. Cancer Causes Control 2012 0.85
76 Respiratory symptoms and occupational exposures in New Zealand plywood mill workers. Ann Occup Hyg 2003 0.85
77 Health research in the Pacific. Pac Health Dialog 2004 0.84
78 Changing pattern of ill health for indigenous people. BMJ 2003 0.83
79 Suitability of forced expiratory volume in 1 second/forced vital capacity vs percentage of predicted forced expiratory volume in 1 second for the classification of asthma severity in adolescents. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2008 0.83
80 Commentary: Observational studies may conceal a weakly elevated risk under the appearance of consistently reduced risks. Int J Epidemiol 2008 0.83
81 Ethnic differences in cause specific mortality among hospitalised patients with diabetes: a linkage study in New Zealand. J Epidemiol Community Health 2005 0.83
82 Bladder cancer risk in sales workers: artefact or cause for concern? Am J Ind Med 2006 0.82
83 Time trends, ethnicity and risk factors for eczema in New Zealand children: ISAAC Phase Three. Asia Pac Allergy 2013 0.82
84 Cancer among meat industry workers. Scand J Work Environ Health 2004 0.82
85 Does screening history explain the ethnic differences in stage at diagnosis of cervical cancer in New Zealand? Int J Epidemiol 2009 0.82
86 Importance of allergy in asthma: an epidemiologic perspective. Curr Allergy Asthma Rep 2011 0.82
87 Respiratory symptoms and lung function change in welders: are they associated with workplace exposures? N Z Med J 2004 0.82
88 Has the prevalence and severity of symptoms of asthma changed among children in New Zealand? ISAAC Phase Three. N Z Med J 2008 0.82
89 Work-related stress and asthma: results from a workforce survey in New Zealand. J Asthma 2011 0.81
90 Importance of meta-analyses for evaluating carcinogens. Environ Health Perspect 2012 0.81
91 Prevalence and work-related risk factors for reduced activities and absenteeism due to low back symptoms. Appl Ergon 2011 0.81
92 What proportion of rhinitis symptoms is attributable to atopy? J Clin Epidemiol 2003 0.81
93 Welding and lung cancer in a pooled analysis of case-control studies. Am J Epidemiol 2013 0.81
94 Leukaemia and occupation: a New Zealand Cancer Registry-based case-control Study. Int J Epidemiol 2008 0.81
95 Cancer mortality in workers exposed to organochlorine compounds in the pulp and paper industry: an international collaborative study. Environ Health Perspect 2006 0.81
96 Mortality and cancer incidence in New Zealand pulp and paper mill workers. N Z Med J 2002 0.81
97 The New Zealand workforce survey II: occupational risk factors for asthma. Ann Occup Hyg 2010 0.81
98 Representativeness. Int J Epidemiol 2014 0.80
99 Asthma prevalence in European, Maori, and Pacific children in New Zealand: ISAAC study. Pediatr Pulmonol 2004 0.80
100 Accuracy of visual assessments of proliferation indices in gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours. J Clin Pathol 2013 0.80
101 The Vienna declaration on nutrition and non-communicable diseases. BMJ 2013 0.79
102 Current concentrations, temporal trends and determinants of persistent organic pollutants in breast milk of New Zealand women. Sci Total Environ 2013 0.79
103 Cigarette smoking and risk of breast cancer in a New Zealand multi-ethnic case-control study. PLoS One 2013 0.79
104 Semi-Bayes and empirical Bayes adjustment methods for multiple comparisons. Epidemiol Prev 2008 0.79
105 Exposure to asbestos and lung and pleural cancer mortality among pulp and paper industry workers. J Occup Environ Med 2002 0.78
106 DNA methyltransferase 3b (DNMT3b), tumor tissue DNA methylation, Gleason score, and prostate cancer mortality: investigating causal relationships. Cancer Causes Control 2012 0.78
107 Lifetime growth and risk of testicular cancer. Int J Cancer 2014 0.78
108 Lung cancer risk among bricklayers in a pooled analysis of case-control studies. Int J Cancer 2014 0.78
109 Lung cancer risk among cooks when accounting for tobacco smoking: a pooled analysis of case-control studies from Europe, Canada, New Zealand, and China. J Occup Environ Med 2015 0.78
110 Occupations with an increased prevalence of self-reported asthma in Indian adults. J Asthma 2014 0.77
111 Hierarchical regression for multiple comparisons in a case-control study of occupational risks for lung cancer. PLoS One 2012 0.77
112 Farming, growing up on a farm, and haematological cancer mortality. Occup Environ Med 2011 0.77
113 Stress and asthma: Hippocrates revisited. J Epidemiol Community Health 2010 0.77
114 The Latin American exception: why is childhood asthma so prevalent in Brazil? J Pediatr (Rio J) 2006 0.77
115 Internet-Based Birth-Cohort Studies: Is This the Future for Epidemiology? JMIR Res Protoc 2015 0.77
116 Gender differences in work-related risk factors associated with low back symptoms. Ergonomics 2012 0.77
117 Lung cancer among coal miners, ore miners and quarrymen: smoking-adjusted risk estimates from the synergy pooled analysis of case-control studies. Scand J Work Environ Health 2015 0.77
118 Protective effects of farming on allergies and asthma: have we learnt anything since 1873? Expert Rev Clin Immunol 2009 0.76
119 Environment and Brain Development: Challenges in the Global Context. Neuroepidemiology 2015 0.76
120 Lung cancer risk among bakers, pastry cooks and confectionary makers: the SYNERGY study. Occup Environ Med 2013 0.76
121 Causal inference-so much more than statistics. Int J Epidemiol 2017 0.76
122 Cross-sectional survey of risk factors for asthma in 6-7-year-old children in New Zealand: International Study of Asthma and Allergy in Childhood Phase Three. J Paediatr Child Health 2009 0.76
123 The New Zealand workforce survey I: self-reported occupational exposures. Ann Occup Hyg 2010 0.76
124 Birthweight and the risk of atopic diseases: the ISAAC Phase III study. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 2014 0.76
125 "Stretching the limits of laparoscopic surgery": two-stage laparoscopic liver resection. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A 2010 0.75
126 The education corner: updates on new and established core concepts and methods in epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol 2012 0.75
127 Lung cancer risk among hairdressers: a pooled analysis of case-control studies conducted between 1985 and 2010. Am J Epidemiol 2013 0.75
128 Pearce responds. Am J Public Health 1997 0.75
129 Time trends and risk factors for rhinoconjunctivitis in New Zealand children: an International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) survey. J Paediatr Child Health 2012 0.75
130 Vandenbroucke and Pearce Respond to "Incident and Prevalent Exposures and Causal Inference". Am J Epidemiol 2015 0.75
131 The use of computer-assisted-telephone-interviewing to diagnose seizures, epilepsy and idiopathic generalized epilepsy. Epilepsy Res 2010 0.75
132 Healthy lifestyle and risk of breast cancer for indigenous and non-indigenous women in New Zealand: a case control study. BMC Cancer 2014 0.75
133 Morbidity in former sawmill workers exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP): a cross-sectional study in New Zealand. Am J Ind Med 2009 0.75
134 Prevalence and causes of diabetes in Pacific people. Pac Health Dialog 2003 0.75
135 Which factors account for the ethnic inequalities in stage at diagnosis and cervical cancer survival in New Zealand? Cancer Epidemiol 2012 0.75
136 The IEA Dictionary and who should be the editor. Int J Epidemiol 2010 0.75
137 Lung Cancer Among Firefighters: Smoking-Adjusted Risk Estimates in a Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies. J Occup Environ Med 2016 0.75
138 Cellular telephone use and time trends for brain, head and neck tumours. N Z Med J 2003 0.75
139 Commentary: Mapping the Human Exposome: Without It, How Can We Find Environmental Risk Factors for ALS? Epidemiology 2015 0.75
140 Serum dioxin levels in former New Zealand sawmill workers twenty years after exposure to pentachlorophenol (PCP) ceased. Chemosphere 2008 0.75
141 A design fault in New Zealand's health research funding system exposed by pandemic influenza. N Z Med J 2009 0.75
142 Estimated infant intake of persistent organic pollutants through breast milk in New Zealand. N Z Med J 2014 0.75
143 The "Twin Study" and the misunderstanding of epidemiology that clouds occupational associations and low back disorder. N Z Med J 2011 0.75
144 Ethnic differences in patterns of occupational exposure in New Zealand. Am J Ind Med 2011 0.75
145 Mortality from cancer and other causes in parents of children with cancer: a population-based study in Piedmont, Italy. Eur J Cancer Prev 2007 0.75
146 Epidemiology in Latin America: an opportunity for a global dialogue. J Epidemiol Community Health 2008 0.75
147 Geographically based approaches can identify environmental causes of disease. J Epidemiol Community Health 2005 0.75
148 Ethnic differences in disease presentation of uterine cancer in New Zealand women. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2012 0.75
149 Analysis of nonresponse in the assessment of health-related quality of life of childhood cancer survivors. Eur J Cancer Prev 2007 0.75