Published in Circulation on July 18, 2005
The preventable causes of death in the United States: comparative risk assessment of dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors. PLoS Med (2009) 12.13
Growing epidemic of coronary heart disease in low- and middle-income countries. Curr Probl Cardiol (2010) 3.23
Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol (2014) 2.88
Socioeconomic status and cardiovascular disease: risks and implications for care. Nat Rev Cardiol (2009) 2.25
Adult mortality attributable to preventable risk factors for non-communicable diseases and injuries in Japan: a comparative risk assessment. PLoS Med (2012) 1.70
A new method for estimating smoking-attributable mortality in high-income countries. Int J Epidemiol (2009) 1.57
First nationwide survey on cardiovascular risk factors in Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (ORISCAV-LUX). BMC Public Health (2010) 1.50
The Relationship of Metabolic Syndrome with Stress, Coronary Heart Disease and Pulmonary Function--An Occupational Cohort-Based Study. PLoS One (2015) 1.41
Estimating population cause-specific mortality fractions from in-hospital mortality: validation of a new method. PLoS Med (2007) 1.39
Chronic cigarette smoking causes hypertension, increased oxidative stress, impaired NO bioavailability, endothelial dysfunction, and cardiac remodeling in mice. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol (2010) 1.29
Prevalence, distribution and correlates of tobacco smoking and chewing in Nepal: a secondary data analysis of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey-2006. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy (2011) 1.25
Quantitative analysis of coronary endothelial function with generator-produced 82Rb PET: comparison with 15O-labelled water PET. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging (2010) 1.17
Lung function profiles and aerobic capacity of adult cigarette and hookah smokers after 12 weeks intermittent training. Libyan J Med (2015) 1.17
Smoking patterns in Ghanaian civil servants: changes over three decades. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2009) 1.11
The biology behind the atherothrombotic effects of cigarette smoke. Nat Rev Cardiol (2013) 1.10
Self-reported use of tobacco products in nine rural INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems in Asia. Glob Health Action (2009) 1.08
The prevalence of cigarette smoking among students of Iran's universities: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Res Med Sci (2013) 1.08
Estimating smoking-attributable mortality in the United States. Demography (2012) 1.06
F2RL3 methylation in blood DNA is a strong predictor of mortality. Int J Epidemiol (2014) 1.06
Meta-Analysis of Prevalence of Smoking in 15-64-year-old Population of West of Iran. Int J Prev Med (2013) 1.04
Tobacco smoke induces the generation of procoagulant microvesicles from human monocytes/macrophages. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2010) 1.04
Passive smoking and the development of cardiovascular disease in children: a systematic review. Cardiol Res Pract (2010) 0.98
Meta-analysis of Smoking Prevalence in Iran. Addict Health (2014) 0.98
Low bone mineral density is associated with increased risk for myocardial infarction in men and women. Osteoporos Int (2011) 0.94
Smoking-Associated DNA Methylation Biomarkers and Their Predictive Value for All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality. Environ Health Perspect (2015) 0.94
Global mortality trends and patterns in older women. Bull World Health Organ (2013) 0.94
Prevalence and determinants of hypertension and associated cardiovascular risk factors: data from a population-based, cross-sectional survey in Saint Louis, Senegal. Cardiovasc J Afr (2013) 0.94
Impact of smoking on the outcome of patients treated with drug-eluting stents: 1-year results from the prospective multicentre German Drug-Eluting Stent Registry (DES.DE). Clin Res Cardiol (2010) 0.92
Increased bone resorption is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events in men: the MINOS study. J Bone Miner Res (2009) 0.92
NADPH oxidase and the cardiovascular toxicity associated with smoking. Toxicol Res (2014) 0.91
Mortality attributable to cigarette smoking in a cohort study in Japan. Eur J Epidemiol (2007) 0.89
Smoking in dialysis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of mortality and cardiovascular morbidity. Am J Kidney Dis (2011) 0.88
Direct and indirect costs of smoking in Vietnam. Tob Control (2014) 0.88
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of cigarette smoke-induced myocardial injury: prevention by vitamin C. PLoS One (2012) 0.87
Cognitive effects of nicotine: genetic moderators. Addict Biol (2010) 0.85
Quantifying policy options for reducing future coronary heart disease mortality in England: a modelling study. PLoS One (2013) 0.84
Modelling Future Coronary Heart Disease Mortality to 2030 in the British Isles. PLoS One (2015) 0.84
Effective interventions to reduce smoking-induced heart disease around the world: time to act. Circulation (2005) 0.84
Preventing and Experiencing Ischemic Heart Disease as a Woman: State of the Science: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation (2016) 0.83
Prevalence of smoking in northwest Iran: a meta-analysis. Electron Physician (2014) 0.83
The acute effect of smoking a single cigarette on vascular status, SpO2, and stress level. Med Sci Monit (2014) 0.82
Relationship between amount of cigarette smoking and coronary atherosclerosis on coronary CTA in asymptomatic individuals. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging (2013) 0.81
Factors responsible for mortality variation in the United States: A latent variable analysis. Demogr Res (2014) 0.80
Second hand smoke and cardiovascular disease in Low and Middle Income Countries: a case for action. Glob Heart (2012) 0.80
Association of smoking with cardiovascular and infection-related morbidity and mortality in chronic hemodialysis. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2012) 0.79
Twelve-Year Cardiovascular and Mortality Risk in Relation to Smoking Habits in Type 2 Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Men: Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study. PLoS One (2016) 0.79
Trial design: blood pressure control and weight gain prevention in prehypertensive and hypertensive smokers: the treatment and prevention study. Contemp Clin Trials (2007) 0.78
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Mortality attributable to tobacco: review of different methods. Arch Public Health (2014) 0.77
Epidemiologic determinants affecting cigarette smoking cessation: a retrospective study in a National Health System (SSN) treatment service in Rome (Italy). J Environ Public Health (2010) 0.77
The enduring effects of smoking in Latin America. Am J Public Health (2015) 0.77
Acute electrocardiographic changes during smoking: an observational study. BMJ Open (2013) 0.77
Differences in cardiovascular toxicities associated with cigarette smoking and snuff use revealed using novel zebrafish models. Biol Open (2016) 0.76
Differential Effects between Cigarette Total Particulate Matter and Cigarette Smoke Extract on Blood and Blood Vessel. Toxicol Res (2016) 0.75
Benfotiamine counteracts smoking-induced vascular dysfunction in healthy smokers. Int J Vasc Med (2012) 0.75
Cardiovascular disease risk factors in relation to smoking behaviour and history: a population-based cohort study. Open Heart (2016) 0.75
Comparison of the clinical and morphologic characteristics of culprit lesions in unstable angina and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Heart Asia (2012) 0.75
Smoking and heavy drinking patterns in rural, urban and rural-to-urban migrants: the PERU MIGRANT Study. BMC Public Health (2017) 0.75
Individual patient data meta-analysis of the smoking prevalence in mazandaran province of iran. Iran Red Crescent Med J (2015) 0.75
Long-term nicotine exposure induces dysfunction of mouse endothelial progenitor cells. Exp Ther Med (2016) 0.75
Proportion of Mortality Attributable to Tobacco Worldwide. Iran J Public Health (2016) 0.75
Association of Leisure-Time Physical Activity to Cardiovascular Disease Prevalence in Relation to Smoking among Adult Nevadans. PLoS One (2015) 0.75
The relationship between smoking intensity and subclinical cardiovascular injury: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Atherosclerosis (2017) 0.75
Adult mortality of diseases and injuries attributable to selected metabolic, lifestyle, environmental, and infectious risk factors in Taiwan: a comparative risk assessment. Popul Health Metr (2017) 0.75
Comparison of Prevalence- and Smoking Impact Ratio-Based Methods of Estimating Smoking-Attributable Fractions of Deaths. J Epidemiol (2015) 0.75
Cigarette Smoking-Associated Alterations in Serotonin/Adrenalin Signaling Pathways of Platelets. J Am Heart Assoc (2017) 0.75
Downregulation of P16 promotes cigarette smoke extract-induced vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation via preventing G1/S phase transition. Exp Ther Med (2017) 0.75
Association between smoking habits and severity of coronary stenosis as assessed by coronary computed tomography angiography. Heart Vessels (2015) 0.75
The prognostic significance of smoking cessation after acute coronary syndromes: an observational, multicentre study from the Melbourne interventional group registry. BMJ Open (2017) 0.75
Cancer statistics, 2008. CA Cancer J Clin (2008) 86.74
Cancer statistics, 2009. CA Cancer J Clin (2009) 83.57
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 56.72
Cancer statistics, 2007. CA Cancer J Clin (2007) 53.49
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
Overweight, obesity, and mortality from cancer in a prospectively studied cohort of U.S. adults. N Engl J Med (2003) 35.39
Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5. Lancet (2010) 33.69
Cancer statistics, 2006. CA Cancer J Clin (2006) 30.71
Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality, and long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution. JAMA (2002) 28.72
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
Cancer statistics, 2005. CA Cancer J Clin (2005) 25.65
Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of disease. Lancet (2002) 24.47
A genome-wide association study identifies alleles in FGFR2 associated with risk of sporadic postmenopausal breast cancer. Nat Genet (2007) 22.96
Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer identifies a second risk locus at 8q24. Nat Genet (2007) 21.18
Multiple loci identified in a genome-wide association study of prostate cancer. Nat Genet (2008) 17.65
Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet (2012) 17.62
Cancer statistics, 2004. CA Cancer J Clin (2004) 15.72
Counting the dead and what they died from: an assessment of the global status of cause of death data. Bull World Health Organ (2005) 15.50
Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on maternal and child mortality: an updated systematic analysis. Lancet (2011) 14.16
Cancer statistics, 2003. CA Cancer J Clin (2003) 13.46
Body-mass index and mortality among 1.46 million white adults. N Engl J Med (2010) 13.34
Cardiovascular mortality and long-term exposure to particulate air pollution: epidemiological evidence of general pathophysiological pathways of disease. Circulation (2003) 12.78
Neonatal, postneonatal, childhood, and under-5 mortality for 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4. Lancet (2010) 12.28
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
Estimates of global mortality attributable to smoking in 2000. Lancet (2003) 10.52
Estimation of potential global pandemic influenza mortality on the basis of vital registry data from the 1918-20 pandemic: a quantitative analysis. Lancet (2006) 9.85
Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2009, featuring the burden and trends in human papillomavirus(HPV)-associated cancers and HPV vaccination coverage levels. J Natl Cancer Inst (2013) 8.75
Spatial analysis of air pollution and mortality in Los Angeles. Epidemiology (2005) 8.64
GBD 2010: design, definitions, and metrics. Lancet (2012) 8.64
A multistage genome-wide association study in breast cancer identifies two new risk alleles at 1p11.2 and 14q24.1 (RAD51L1). Nat Genet (2009) 8.39
Healthy life expectancy for 187 countries, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 8.22
Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1975-2005, featuring trends in lung cancer, tobacco use, and tobacco control. J Natl Cancer Inst (2008) 8.14
50-year trends in smoking-related mortality in the United States. N Engl J Med (2013) 7.80
Breast and cervical cancer in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet (2011) 7.71
Rapid health transition in China, 1990-2010: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2013) 7.70
Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 7.62
Newly discovered breast cancer susceptibility loci on 3p24 and 17q23.2. Nat Genet (2009) 7.30
Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1975-2000, featuring the uses of surveillance data for cancer prevention and control. J Natl Cancer Inst (2003) 7.06
Can we achieve Millennium Development Goal 4? New analysis of country trends and forecasts of under-5 mortality to 2015. Lancet (2007) 6.72
Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factors. Lancet (2005) 6.63
UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2013) 6.11
Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1973-1999, featuring implications of age and aging on U.S. cancer burden. Cancer (2002) 6.08
Extended follow-up and spatial analysis of the American Cancer Society study linking particulate air pollution and mortality. Res Rep Health Eff Inst (2009) 5.92
Measuring the global burden of disease. N Engl J Med (2013) 5.84
Performance of common genetic variants in breast-cancer risk models. N Engl J Med (2010) 5.79
Social inequalities in male mortality, and in male mortality from smoking: indirect estimation from national death rates in England and Wales, Poland, and North America. Lancet (2006) 5.70
Civil registration systems and vital statistics: successes and missed opportunities. Lancet (2007) 5.67
Smoking and mortality--beyond established causes. N Engl J Med (2015) 5.54
Diabetes mellitus as a predictor of cancer mortality in a large cohort of US adults. Am J Epidemiol (2004) 5.29
Estimates of global and regional potential health gains from reducing multiple major risk factors. Lancet (2003) 5.26
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs as anticancer agents: mechanistic, pharmacologic, and clinical issues. J Natl Cancer Inst (2002) 4.97
The American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort: rationale, study design, and baseline characteristics. Cancer (2002) 4.88
Measuring the burden of neglected tropical diseases: the global burden of disease framework. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2007) 4.87
Cardiovascular mortality and exposure to airborne fine particulate matter and cigarette smoke: shape of the exposure-response relationship. Circulation (2009) 4.84
Cancer mortality in the United States by education level and race. J Natl Cancer Inst (2007) 4.77
American Cancer Society Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity for cancer prevention: reducing the risk of cancer with healthy food choices and physical activity. CA Cancer J Clin (2006) 4.69
Rethinking the "diseases of affluence" paradigm: global patterns of nutritional risks in relation to economic development. PLoS Med (2005) 4.64
Monitoring global health: time for new solutions. BMJ (2004) 4.39
Validation of the symptom pattern method for analyzing verbal autopsy data. PLoS Med (2007) 4.35
Validation of verbal autopsy procedures for adult deaths in China. Int J Epidemiol (2005) 4.20
Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years. N Engl J Med (2017) 3.90
Worldwide mortality in men and women aged 15-59 years from 1970 to 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet (2010) 3.89
Two large prospective studies of mortality among men who use snuff or chewing tobacco (United States). Cancer Causes Control (2005) 3.88
Identification of a new prostate cancer susceptibility locus on chromosome 8q24. Nat Genet (2009) 3.76
Leisure time spent sitting in relation to total mortality in a prospective cohort of US adults. Am J Epidemiol (2010) 3.64
Validity of verbal autopsy procedures for determining cause of death in Tanzania. Trop Med Int Health (2006) 3.62
Burden of disease and injury in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: the Indigenous health gap. Int J Epidemiol (2008) 3.61
Setting international standards for verbal autopsy. Bull World Health Organ (2007) 3.59
Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug use and the risk for Parkinson's disease. Ann Neurol (2005) 3.58
Annual Report to the Nation on the status of cancer, 1975-2008, featuring cancers associated with excess weight and lack of sufficient physical activity. Cancer (2012) 3.55
Statistical modeling and projections of lung cancer mortality in 4 industrialized countries. Int J Cancer (2005) 3.53
Adult mortality: time for a reappraisal. Int J Epidemiol (2004) 3.41
Benefits of smoking cessation for longevity. Am J Public Health (2002) 3.38
Lung cancer and cardiovascular disease mortality associated with ambient air pollution and cigarette smoke: shape of the exposure-response relationships. Environ Health Perspect (2011) 3.36
Mortality registration and surveillance in China: History, current situation and challenges. Popul Health Metr (2005) 3.31
Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics. Bull World Health Organ (2005) 3.30
The way forward. Lancet (2007) 3.28
Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: II. Results for the global burden of disease 2000. BMC Cancer (2002) 3.26
Recent trends in breast cancer incidence rates by age and tumor characteristics among U.S. women. Breast Cancer Res (2007) 3.23
Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: health implications of short-lived greenhouse pollutants. Lancet (2009) 3.22
Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets. Popul Health Metr (2011) 3.21
Meat consumption and risk of colorectal cancer. JAMA (2005) 3.15
Modeling causes of death: an integrated approach using CODEm. Popul Health Metr (2012) 3.12
Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies. Popul Health Metr (2011) 3.10
A common 8q24 variant in prostate and breast cancer from a large nested case-control study. Cancer Res (2007) 3.08
Seven prostate cancer susceptibility loci identified by a multi-stage genome-wide association study. Nat Genet (2011) 3.07
The landscape of recombination in African Americans. Nature (2011) 3.06
Under-use of smoking-cessation treatments: results from the National Health Interview Survey, 2000. Am J Prev Med (2005) 3.02
Obesity and cancer. Oncogene (2004) 3.01
Stages of the cigarette epidemic on entering its second century. Tob Control (2012) 2.98
Genome-wide association study of renal cell carcinoma identifies two susceptibility loci on 2p21 and 11q13.3. Nat Genet (2010) 2.96
A large cohort study of long-term daily use of adult-strength aspirin and cancer incidence. J Natl Cancer Inst (2007) 2.95
Mortality in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1964-2004. Bull World Health Organ (2007) 2.93
Preventing cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes: a common agenda for the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association, and the American Heart Association. Circulation (2004) 2.91