Published in Environ Health Perspect on June 01, 2004
Spatial epidemiology: current approaches and future challenges. Environ Health Perspect (2004) 4.03
Geostatistical analysis of disease data: estimation of cancer mortality risk from empirical frequencies using Poisson kriging. Int J Health Geogr (2005) 2.39
Geostatistical analysis of disease data: visualization and propagation of spatial uncertainty in cancer mortality risk using Poisson kriging and p-field simulation. Int J Health Geogr (2006) 1.90
Comparison of a spatial approach with the multilevel approach for investigating place effects on health: the example of healthcare utilisation in France. J Epidemiol Community Health (2005) 1.79
Methodologic issues and approaches to spatial epidemiology. Environ Health Perspect (2008) 1.56
Trends and inequalities in cardiovascular disease mortality across 7932 English electoral wards, 1982-2006: Bayesian spatial analysis. Int J Epidemiol (2012) 1.55
Evaluating spatial methods for investigating global clustering and cluster detection of cancer cases. Stat Med (2008) 1.47
Health and environment information systems for exposure and disease mapping, and risk assessment. Environ Health Perspect (2004) 1.41
Space-time Bayesian small area disease risk models: development and evaluation with a focus on cluster detection. Environ Ecol Stat (2010) 1.24
How does Poisson kriging compare to the popular BYM model for mapping disease risks? Int J Health Geogr (2008) 1.23
Social deprivation, inequality, and the neighborhood-level incidence of psychotic syndromes in East London. Schizophr Bull (2012) 1.17
Use of space-time models to investigate the stability of patterns of disease. Environ Health Perspect (2008) 1.10
Assessing the impact of socioeconomic variables on small area variations in suicide outcomes in England. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2012) 1.10
Feasibility and utility of mapping disease risk at the neighbourhood level within a Canadian public health unit: an ecological study. Int J Health Geogr (2010) 1.10
Using hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions to measure access to primary health care: an application of spatial structural equation modeling. Int J Health Geogr (2009) 1.10
Municipal distribution of bladder cancer mortality in Spain: possible role of mining and industry. BMC Public Health (2006) 1.08
Geostatistical Analysis of County-Level Lung Cancer Mortality Rates in the Southeastern United States. Geogr Anal (2010) 1.08
Geographic variations in risk: adjusting for unmeasured confounders through joint modeling of multiple diseases. Epidemiology (2009) 1.07
Is there much variation in variation? Revisiting statistics of small area variation in health services research. BMC Health Serv Res (2009) 1.05
Bayesian mapping of pulmonary tuberculosis in Antananarivo, Madagascar. BMC Infect Dis (2010) 1.05
Bayesian detection of expression quantitative trait loci hot spots. Genetics (2011) 1.00
Neighbourhood variation in the incidence of psychotic disorders in Southeast London. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol (2007) 1.00
Modelling of municipal mortality due to haematological neoplasias in Spain. J Epidemiol Community Health (2007) 1.00
Evaluating the effect of neighbourhood weight matrices on smoothing properties of Conditional Autoregressive (CAR) models. Int J Health Geogr (2007) 0.97
Geo-mapping of time trends in childhood caries risk--a method for assessment of preventive care. BMC Oral Health (2012) 0.94
The striking geographical pattern of gastric cancer mortality in Spain: environmental hypotheses revisited. BMC Cancer (2009) 0.94
Evaluation of spatial relationships between health and the environment: the rapid inquiry facility. Environ Health Perspect (2010) 0.94
Municipal distribution of breast cancer mortality among women in Spain. BMC Cancer (2007) 0.91
Geographical clustering of lung cancer in the province of Lecce, Italy: 1992-2001. Int J Health Geogr (2009) 0.89
A Bayesian model for cluster detection. Biostatistics (2013) 0.88
Elucidating the spatially varying relation between cervical cancer and socio-economic conditions in England. Int J Health Geogr (2011) 0.87
Comparison of different methods for spatial analysis of cancer data in Utah. Environ Health Perspect (2008) 0.87
Analysis of matched geographical areas to study potential links between environmental exposure to oil refineries and non-Hodgkin lymphoma mortality in Spain. Int J Health Geogr (2012) 0.86
Modelling the effect of malaria endemicity on spatial variations in childhood fever, diarrhoea and pneumonia in Malawi. Int J Health Geogr (2007) 0.86
Infant mortality in South Africa--distribution, associations and policy implications, 2007: an ecological spatial analysis. Int J Health Geogr (2011) 0.86
Geographic risk modeling of childhood cancer relative to county-level crops, hazardous air pollutants and population density characteristics in Texas. Environ Health (2008) 0.85
Municipal distribution of ovarian cancer mortality in Spain. BMC Cancer (2008) 0.85
Spatio-temporal trends of mortality in small areas of Southern Spain. BMC Public Health (2010) 0.85
Shared component modelling as an alternative to assess geographical variations in medical practice: gender inequalities in hospital admissions for chronic diseases. BMC Med Res Methodol (2011) 0.84
Combining difference and equivalence test results in spatial maps. Int J Health Geogr (2011) 0.83
A hierarchical Bayesian approach to multiple testing in disease mapping. Biom J (2010) 0.83
Space-time stick-breaking processes for small area disease cluster estimation. Environ Ecol Stat (2013) 0.83
Conditional predictive inference for online surveillance of spatial disease incidence. Stat Med (2011) 0.82
Colorectal cancer mortality and industrial pollution in Spain. BMC Public Health (2012) 0.82
Detecting cancer clusters in a regional population with local cluster tests and Bayesian smoothing methods: a simulation study. Int J Health Geogr (2013) 0.81
Oesophageal cancer mortality in Spain: a spatial analysis. BMC Cancer (2007) 0.80
Identifying high-risk areas for sporadic measles outbreaks: lessons from South Africa. Bull World Health Organ (2013) 0.80
Geographical and Temporal Variations in Female Breast Cancer Mortality in the Municipalities of Andalusia (Southern Spain). Int J Environ Res Public Health (2016) 0.79
Lessons from ecological and spatial studies in relation to occupational lung disease. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol (2009) 0.79
Epidemiological patterns of asbestos exposure and spatial clusters of incident cases of malignant mesothelioma from the Italian national registry. BMC Cancer (2015) 0.79
Spatio-temporal patterns of bladder cancer incidence in Utah (1973-2004) and their association with the presence of toxic release inventory sites. Int J Health Geogr (2011) 0.78
Mortality, material deprivation and urbanization: exploring the social patterns of a metropolitan area. Int J Equity Health (2015) 0.78
Kidney cancer mortality in Spain: geographic patterns and possible hypotheses. BMC Cancer (2008) 0.77
Risk of cancer in the vicinity of municipal solid waste incinerators: importance of using a flexible modelling strategy. Int J Health Geogr (2009) 0.77
Spatial distribution of Parkinson's disease mortality in Spain, 1989-1998, as a guide for focused aetiological research or health-care intervention. BMC Public Health (2009) 0.77
Evaluating geostatistical modeling of exceedance probability as the first step in disease cluster investigations: very low birth weights near toxic Texas sites. Environ Health (2014) 0.77
Municipal mortality due to thyroid cancer in Spain. BMC Public Health (2006) 0.77
Spatially interpolated disease prevalence estimation using collateral indicators of morbidity and ecological risk. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2013) 0.76
Spatial Bayesian surveillance for small area case event data. Stat Methods Med Res (2016) 0.75
Small-area spatio-temporal analyses of bladder and kidney cancer risk in Nova Scotia, Canada. BMC Public Health (2016) 0.75
Spatial analysis of the association of alcohol outlets and alcohol-related pedestrian/bicyclist injuries in New York City. Inj Epidemiol (2016) 0.75
Association between heavy metal and metalloid levels in topsoil and cancer mortality in Spain. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int (2017) 0.75
Geographic variation in the intended choice of adjuvant treatments for women diagnosed with screen-detected breast cancer in Queensland. BMC Public Health (2015) 0.75
Bowel disorders and its spatial trend in Manitoba, Canada. BMC Public Health (2014) 0.75
A spatial model to quantify the mortality impact of service delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa: an ecological design utilizing data from South Africa. Int J Health Geogr (2013) 0.75
Spatial distribution of psychotic disorders in an urban area of France: an ecological study. Sci Rep (2016) 0.75
Geography and social distribution of malaria in Indonesian Papua: a cross-sectional study. Int J Health Geogr (2016) 0.75
Trends and area variations in Potentially Preventable Admissions for COPD in Spain (2002-2013): a significant decline and convergence between areas. BMC Health Serv Res (2016) 0.75
A Bayesian Method for Cluster Detection with Application to Brain and Breast Cancer in Puget Sound. Epidemiology (2016) 0.75
Relevance of the type III error in epidemiological maps. Int J Health Geogr (2012) 0.75
Geographic variations in cervical cancer risk in San Luis Potosí state, Mexico: A spatial statistical approach. Int J Equity Health (2016) 0.75
Disease mapping. Chapman Hall CRC Handb Mod Stat Methods (2010) 0.75
Estimating micro area behavioural risk factor prevalence from large population-based surveys: a full Bayesian approach. BMC Public Health (2016) 0.75
Uptake of atrial fibrillation screening aiming at stroke prevention: geo-mapping of target population and non-participation. BMC Public Health (2013) 0.75
The Importance of Socio-Economic Versus Environmental Risk Factors for Reported Dengue Cases in Java, Indonesia. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2016) 0.75
Spatially Varying Coefficient Inequalities: Evaluating How the Impact of Patient Characteristics on Breast Cancer Survival Varies by Location. PLoS One (2016) 0.75
Exploring neighborhood inequality in female breast cancer incidence in Tehran using Bayesian spatial models and a spatial scan statistic. Epidemiol Health (2017) 0.75
Proper multivariate conditional autoregressive models for spatial data analysis. Biostatistics (2003) 4.24
Disease mapping models: an empirical evaluation. Disease Mapping Collaborative Group. Stat Med (2001) 2.88
Spatial correlation in ecological analysis. Int J Epidemiol (1993) 2.53
Bayesian detection of clusters and discontinuities in disease maps. Biometrics (2000) 1.97
Bayesian partitioning for estimating disease risk. Biometrics (2001) 1.75
Geographical epidemiology of prostate cancer in Great Britain. Int J Cancer (2002) 1.59
Methods for investigating localized clustering of disease. Historical aspects of leukaemia clusters. IARC Sci Publ (1996) 1.30
The epidemiology of cancer. Cancer (1980) 1.30
Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids. Nature (2010) 28.21
Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index. Nat Genet (2010) 23.08
Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation. Nat Genet (2008) 22.35
Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height. Nature (2010) 20.01
New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk. Nat Genet (2010) 17.89
Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity. Nat Genet (2008) 15.94
Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. Nature (2011) 13.25
Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure. Nat Genet (2009) 12.44
Loci influencing lipid levels and coronary heart disease risk in 16 European population cohorts. Nat Genet (2008) 12.32
The BUGS project: Evolution, critique and future directions. Stat Med (2009) 11.19
Variants in MTNR1B influence fasting glucose levels. Nat Genet (2008) 10.85
Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution. Nat Genet (2010) 7.94
Genome-wide association study for early-onset and morbid adult obesity identifies three new risk loci in European populations. Nat Genet (2009) 6.39
Genome-wide scan identifies variation in MLXIPL associated with plasma triglycerides. Nat Genet (2008) 6.06
Genome-wide association scan meta-analysis identifies three Loci influencing adiposity and fat distribution. PLoS Genet (2009) 5.81
Effect of lower sodium intake on health: systematic review and meta-analyses. BMJ (2013) 5.78
Aircraft noise and cardiovascular disease near Heathrow airport in London: small area study. BMJ (2013) 5.74
Common genetic variation near MC4R is associated with waist circumference and insulin resistance. Nat Genet (2008) 5.55
A variant near MTNR1B is associated with increased fasting plasma glucose levels and type 2 diabetes risk. Nat Genet (2008) 5.49
Genetic variant near IRS1 is associated with type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia. Nat Genet (2009) 5.43
Human metabolic phenotype diversity and its association with diet and blood pressure. Nature (2008) 5.41
Following Shipman: a pilot system for monitoring mortality rates in primary care. Lancet (2003) 5.11
Salt intakes around the world: implications for public health. Int J Epidemiol (2009) 5.05
A comparison of Bayesian spatial models for disease mapping. Stat Methods Med Res (2005) 4.85
Population-based genome-wide association studies reveal six loci influencing plasma levels of liver enzymes. Am J Hum Genet (2008) 4.69
Size matters: just how big is BIG?: Quantifying realistic sample size requirements for human genome epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol (2008) 4.53
A polymorphism within the G6PC2 gene is associated with fasting plasma glucose levels. Science (2008) 4.38
Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility. Nat Genet (2014) 4.13
Genome-wide association study identifies five loci associated with lung function. Nat Genet (2009) 4.10
Genetic variants influencing circulating lipid levels and risk of coronary artery disease. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2010) 4.08
Common variation in the FTO gene alters diabetes-related metabolic traits to the extent expected given its effect on BMI. Diabetes (2008) 3.76
Genetic loci influencing kidney function and chronic kidney disease. Nat Genet (2010) 3.75
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in >80 000 subjects identifies multiple loci for C-reactive protein levels. Circulation (2011) 3.68
Genome-wide association study in individuals of South Asian ancestry identifies six new type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci. Nat Genet (2011) 3.46
Dysfunction of lipid sensor GPR120 leads to obesity in both mouse and human. Nature (2012) 3.41
Genome-wide association study identifies six new loci influencing pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure. Nat Genet (2011) 3.40
Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals. PLoS Genet (2012) 3.21
Genome-wide association study identifies loci influencing concentrations of liver enzymes in plasma. Nat Genet (2011) 3.18
New gene functions in megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation. Nature (2011) 3.14
Blood pressure and the global burden of disease 2000. Part II: estimates of attributable burden. J Hypertens (2006) 3.12
Genome-wide association and large-scale follow up identifies 16 new loci influencing lung function. Nat Genet (2011) 3.03
Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease. Nat Genet (2013) 2.92
SLC2A9 is a high-capacity urate transporter in humans. PLoS Med (2008) 2.87
A Bayesian toolkit for genetic association studies. Genet Epidemiol (2006) 2.86
Seventy-five genetic loci influencing the human red blood cell. Nature (2012) 2.77
Changing international trends in mortality rates for liver, biliary and pancreatic tumours. J Hepatol (2002) 2.70
Dietary sources of sodium in China, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, women and men aged 40 to 59 years: the INTERMAP study. J Am Diet Assoc (2010) 2.60
A genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies new childhood obesity loci. Nat Genet (2012) 2.60
Mirror extreme BMI phenotypes associated with gene dosage at the chromosome 16p11.2 locus. Nature (2011) 2.59
MultiPhen: joint model of multiple phenotypes can increase discovery in GWAS. PLoS One (2012) 2.56
Blood pressure and the global burden of disease 2000. Part 1: estimates of blood pressure levels. J Hypertens (2006) 2.43
Genetic variation in SCN10A influences cardiac conduction. Nat Genet (2010) 2.30
Variants in ADCY5 and near CCNL1 are associated with fetal growth and birth weight. Nat Genet (2010) 2.30
Sugar-sweetened beverage, sugar intake of individuals, and their blood pressure: international study of macro/micronutrients and blood pressure. Hypertension (2011) 2.29
Effect of increased potassium intake on cardiovascular risk factors and disease: systematic review and meta-analyses. BMJ (2013) 2.28
Paediatric cardiac surgical mortality in England after Bristol: descriptive analysis of hospital episode statistics 1991-2002. BMJ (2004) 2.20
Hemoglobin concentration in pregnancy and perinatal mortality: a London-based cohort study. Am J Obstet Gynecol (2005) 2.20
A nutrient-wide association study on blood pressure. Circulation (2012) 2.19
Genome-wide association study identifies variants in TMPRSS6 associated with hemoglobin levels. Nat Genet (2009) 2.19
Meta-analysis of studies of alcohol and breast cancer with consideration of the methodological issues. Cancer Causes Control (2006) 2.17
Early life factors and blood pressure at age 31 years in the 1966 northern Finland birth cohort. Hypertension (2004) 2.14
The UK Biobank sample handling and storage validation studies. Int J Epidemiol (2008) 2.12
Relation of iron and red meat intake to blood pressure: cross sectional epidemiological study. BMJ (2008) 2.09
Methodological issues in cohort studies that relate sodium intake to cardiovascular disease outcomes: a science advisory from the American Heart Association. Circulation (2014) 2.05
Genome-wide association and genetic functional studies identify autism susceptibility candidate 2 gene (AUTS2) in the regulation of alcohol consumption. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 2.01
Does gestation vary by ethnic group? A London-based study of over 122,000 pregnancies with spontaneous onset of labour. Int J Epidemiol (2004) 1.97
Risk of bacterial colonization of pancreatic stents used in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. J Clin Gastroenterol (2012) 1.95
Genetic determinants of height growth assessed longitudinally from infancy to adulthood in the northern Finland birth cohort 1966. PLoS Genet (2009) 1.89
Bayesian analysis of population PK/PD models: general concepts and software. J Pharmacokinet Pharmacodyn (2002) 1.89
Prevalence, predictors, and prognostic value of renal dysfunction in adults with congenital heart disease. Circulation (2008) 1.84
Blood pressure differences between northern and southern Chinese: role of dietary factors: the International Study on Macronutrients and Blood Pressure. Hypertension (2004) 1.84
Trends in drug overdose deaths in England and Wales 1993-98: methadone does not kill more people than heroin. Addiction (2003) 1.83
Improving ecological inference using individual-level data. Stat Med (2006) 1.82
Cardiopulmonary complications of ERCP in older patients. Gastrointest Endosc (2006) 1.81
Long-term leisure-time physical activity and serum metabolome. Circulation (2012) 1.81
Assessment of analytical reproducibility of 1H NMR spectroscopy based metabonomics for large-scale epidemiological research: the INTERMAP Study. Anal Chem (2006) 1.76
Identification of heart rate-associated loci and their effects on cardiac conduction and rhythm disorders. Nat Genet (2013) 1.72
Relationship between birthweight and blood lipid concentrations in later life: evidence from the existing literature. Int J Epidemiol (2003) 1.72
A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans. PLoS One (2012) 1.72
A coherent approach for analysis of the Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChip improves data quality and performance in epigenome-wide association studies. Genome Biol (2015) 1.71
Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis of joint patterns of male and female lung cancer risks in Yorkshire (UK). Stat Methods Med Res (2006) 1.70
The role of adiposity in cardiometabolic traits: a Mendelian randomization analysis. PLoS Med (2013) 1.70
Studying time to pregnancy by use of a retrospective design. Am J Epidemiol (2005) 1.68
Focused Screening and Treatment (FSAT): a PCR-based strategy to detect malaria parasite carriers and contain drug resistant P. falciparum, Pailin, Cambodia. PLoS One (2012) 1.66
Common genetic variation near melatonin receptor MTNR1B contributes to raised plasma glucose and increased risk of type 2 diabetes among Indian Asians and European Caucasians. Diabetes (2009) 1.65
Stroke mortality associated with living near main roads in England and wales: a geographical study. Stroke (2003) 1.65
Relationship of dietary cholesterol to blood pressure: the INTERMAP study. J Hypertens (2011) 1.63
Combined effects of MC4R and FTO common genetic variants on obesity in European general populations. J Mol Med (Berl) (2009) 1.62
Rising trends in cholangiocarcinoma: is the ICD classification system misleading us? J Hepatol (2011) 1.61
Mitigating release of the potent greenhouse gas N(2)O from the nitrogen cycle - could enzymic regulation hold the key? Trends Biotechnol (2009) 1.61
Dietary starch intake of individuals and their blood pressure: the International Study of Macronutrients and Micronutrients and Blood Pressure. J Hypertens (2009) 1.61
Geographical epidemiology of prostate cancer in Great Britain. Int J Cancer (2002) 1.59
Type 2 diabetes risk alleles are associated with reduced size at birth. Diabetes (2009) 1.58
Trends and inequalities in cardiovascular disease mortality across 7932 English electoral wards, 1982-2006: Bayesian spatial analysis. Int J Epidemiol (2012) 1.55
Evaluation of measures of urinary albumin excretion in epidemiologic studies. Am J Epidemiol (2004) 1.54
Food omega-3 fatty acid intake of individuals (total, linolenic acid, long-chain) and their blood pressure: INTERMAP study. Hypertension (2007) 1.54
Estimating 24-hour urinary sodium excretion from casual urinary sodium concentrations in Western populations: the INTERSALT study. Am J Epidemiol (2013) 1.53