Published in Chest on October 01, 2006
Inhaled corticosteroids in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA (2008) 6.24
Decreased serum vitamin D levels in children with asthma are associated with increased corticosteroid use. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2010) 3.22
Effect of long-term corticosteroid use on bone mineral density in children: a prospective longitudinal assessment in the childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) study. Pediatrics (2008) 1.48
Bone mineral density and fractures in older men with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma. Osteoporos Int (2009) 1.09
Low bone mineral density in men with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Respir Res (2011) 0.96
Epidemiology and management of common pulmonary diseases in older persons. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2012) 0.95
Utilization of DXA Bone Mineral Densitometry in Ontario: An Evidence-Based Analysis. Ont Health Technol Assess Ser (2006) 0.88
Long-term therapy in COPD: any evidence of adverse effect on bone? Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis (2009) 0.83
Severity staging of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: differences in pre- and post-bronchodilator spirometry. Yonsei Med J (2009) 0.83
Patterns of Prescription Drug Use Before and After Fragility Fracture. JAMA Intern Med (2016) 0.81
Predictors of non-vertebral fracture in older Chinese males and females: Mr. OS and Ms. OS (Hong Kong). J Bone Miner Metab (2016) 0.79
Special challenges in treatment and self-management of older women with asthma. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol (2014) 0.77
The Skeletal Effects of Inhaled Glucocorticoids. Curr Osteoporos Rep (2016) 0.75
Validation and validity of diagnoses in the General Practice Research Database: a systematic review. Br J Clin Pharmacol (2010) 10.70
Global prevalence and major risk factors of diabetic retinopathy. Diabetes Care (2012) 7.83
Effect of inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system and other antihypertensive drugs on renal outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet (2005) 6.59
Hypertension in sub-saharan Africa: a systematic review. Hypertension (2007) 6.14
Venous thromboembolism during active disease and remission in inflammatory bowel disease: a cohort study. Lancet (2010) 5.63
Exposure to antipsychotics and risk of stroke: self controlled case series study. BMJ (2008) 4.09
NICE guidance. Chest pain of recent onset: assessment and diagnosis of recent onset chest pain or discomfort of suspected cardiac origin. Heart (2010) 3.90
Association between C reactive protein and coronary heart disease: mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data. BMJ (2011) 3.65
Homocysteine and stroke: evidence on a causal link from mendelian randomisation. Lancet (2005) 3.60
Invasive dental treatment and risk for vascular events: a self-controlled case series. Ann Intern Med (2010) 3.59
Incident dementia and blood pressure lowering in the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial cognitive function assessment (HYVET-COG): a double-blind, placebo controlled trial. Lancet Neurol (2008) 3.28
A road map for efficient and reliable human genome epidemiology. Nat Genet (2006) 3.21
Insulin glargine and malignancy: an unwarranted alarm. Lancet (2009) 3.19
Non-communicable diseases in low and middle-income countries: a priority or a distraction? Int J Epidemiol (2005) 3.06
Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa. Science (2014) 3.05
Influenza as a trigger for acute myocardial infarction or death from cardiovascular disease: a systematic review. Lancet Infect Dis (2009) 2.97
Clopidogrel and interaction with proton pump inhibitors: comparison between cohort and within person study designs. BMJ (2012) 2.88
Measuring performance and missing the point? BMJ (2007) 2.83
Moving beyond single and dual diagnosis in general practice: many patients have multiple morbidities, and their needs have to be addressed. BMJ (2003) 2.81
The Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP). Heart (2010) 2.80
Data resource profile: cardiovascular disease research using linked bespoke studies and electronic health records (CALIBER). Int J Epidemiol (2012) 2.75
Vulnerability to winter mortality in elderly people in Britain: population based study. BMJ (2004) 2.65
Circulating influenza virus, climatic factors, and acute myocardial infarction: a time series study in England and Wales and Hong Kong. J Infect Dis (2011) 2.64
Estimation of bias in nongenetic observational studies using "mendelian triangulation". Ann Epidemiol (2006) 2.57
Cholesterol fractions and apolipoproteins as risk factors for heart disease mortality in older men. Arch Intern Med (2007) 2.55
Time series regression studies in environmental epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol (2013) 2.52
Comorbidities affect risk of nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Gastroenterology (2013) 2.48
Early exposure to infections and antibiotics and the incidence of allergic disease: a birth cohort study with the West Midlands General Practice Research Database. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2002) 2.45
Large-scale trends in the evolution of gene structures within 11 animal genomes. PLoS Comput Biol (2006) 2.42
Influence of ursodeoxycholic acid on the mortality and malignancy associated with primary biliary cirrhosis: a population-based cohort study. Hepatology (2007) 2.34
There is no evidence of an inverse relationship between TH2-mediated atopy and TH1-mediated autoimmune disorders: Lack of support for the hygiene hypothesis. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2003) 2.34
Pragmatic randomised trials using routine electronic health records: putting them to the test. BMJ (2012) 2.33
Effect of statin treatment on short term mortality after pneumonia episode: cohort study. BMJ (2011) 2.32
Clinical risk factors for age-related macular degeneration: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Ophthalmol (2010) 2.32
Validation of the diagnosis of autism in general practitioner records. BMC Public Health (2004) 2.22
The importance of prenatal exposures on the development of allergic disease: a birth cohort study using the West Midlands General Practice Database. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2002) 2.22
Limits to causal inference based on Mendelian randomization: a comparison with randomized controlled trials. Am J Epidemiol (2006) 2.16
Critical appraisal of CRP measurement for the prediction of coronary heart disease events: new data and systematic review of 31 prospective cohorts. Int J Epidemiol (2008) 2.14
Body mass index and obstructive sleep apnoea in the UK: a cross-sectional study of the over-50s. Prim Care Respir J (2012) 2.11
Comparison of the transcriptomes of American chestnut (Castanea dentata) and Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima) in response to the chestnut blight infection. BMC Plant Biol (2009) 2.10
Risk of first venous thromboembolism in pregnant women in hospital: population based cohort study from England. BMJ (2013) 2.08
The end of age: but not for the worse off. Age Ageing (2002) 2.04
The association between idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and vascular disease: a population-based study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2008) 2.02
A comparison of cost effectiveness using data from randomized trials or actual clinical practice: selective cox-2 inhibitors as an example. PLoS Med (2009) 1.99
Incidence of systemic lupus erythematosus in the United Kingdom, 1990-1999. Arthritis Rheum (2007) 1.98
Age and gender variations in age-related macular degeneration prevalence in populations of European ancestry: a meta-analysis. Ophthalmology (2011) 1.96
Risk of stroke following herpes zoster: a self-controlled case-series study. Clin Infect Dis (2014) 1.91
The effects of hourly differences in air pollution on the risk of myocardial infarction: case crossover analysis of the MINAP database. BMJ (2011) 1.88
Inhaled corticosteroids and hip fracture: a population-based case-control study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2002) 1.87
Preparedness of Tanzanian health facilities for outpatient primary care of hypertension and diabetes: a cross-sectional survey. Lancet Glob Health (2014) 1.81
Herpes zoster vaccine effectiveness against incident herpes zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia in an older US population: a cohort study. PLoS Med (2013) 1.79
Mortality associated with Barrett's esophagus and gastroesophageal reflux disease diagnoses-a population-based cohort study. Am J Gastroenterol (2005) 1.79
Life expectancy in relation to cardiovascular risk factors: 38 year follow-up of 19,000 men in the Whitehall study. BMJ (2009) 1.77
CKD and mortality risk in older people: a community-based population study in the United Kingdom. Am J Kidney Dis (2009) 1.74
Orlistat and the risk of acute liver injury: self controlled case series study in UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. BMJ (2013) 1.74
Influenza infection and risk of acute myocardial infarction in England and Wales: a CALIBER self-controlled case series study. J Infect Dis (2012) 1.73
Comparative analysis of genome-wide association studies signals for lipids, diabetes, and coronary heart disease: Cardiovascular Biomarker Genetics Collaboration. Eur Heart J (2011) 1.73
The efficiency of cardiovascular risk assessment: do the right patients get statin treatment? Heart (2013) 1.73
Studying gene and gene-environment effects of uncommon and common variants on continuous traits: a marker-set approach using gene-trait similarity regression. Am J Hum Genet (2011) 1.71
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
Endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphisms and cardiovascular disease: a HuGE review. Am J Epidemiol (2006) 1.66
Role of diabetes mellitus and gastro-oesophageal reflux in the aetiology of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Respir Med (2008) 1.65
Fracture risk in people with celiac disease: a population-based cohort study. Gastroenterology (2003) 1.63
Differences in cardiovascular risk factors in rural, urban and rural-to-urban migrants in Peru. Heart (2011) 1.60
Risk of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Med (2012) 1.60
Association of HIV and ART with cardiometabolic traits in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Epidemiol (2013) 1.57
Representativeness and optimal use of body mass index (BMI) in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD). BMJ Open (2013) 1.57
Exposure to tricyclic and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants and the risk of hip fracture. Am J Epidemiol (2003) 1.57
Randomised controlled trials in primary care: scope and application. Br J Gen Pract (2002) 1.54
Defining a minimum income for healthy living (MIHL): older age, England. Int J Epidemiol (2007) 1.53
Increased pulse pressure linked to dementia: further results from the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial - HYVET. J Hypertens (2013) 1.53
Addressing geographical variation in the progression of non-communicable diseases in Peru: the CRONICAS cohort study protocol. BMJ Open (2012) 1.52
Chickenpox and risk of stroke: a self-controlled case series analysis. Clin Infect Dis (2013) 1.51
Impact of socioeconomic deprivation on maternal perinatal mental illnesses presenting to UK general practice. Br J Gen Pract (2012) 1.51
Contribution of changes in incidence and mortality to trends in the prevalence of coronary heart disease in the UK: 1996 2005. Eur Heart J (2007) 1.49
The effect on cardiovascular risk factors of migration from rural to urban areas in Peru: PERU MIGRANT Study. BMC Cardiovasc Disord (2009) 1.46
Hormone replacement therapy and acute myocardial infarction: a large observational study exploring the influence of age. Int J Epidemiol (2006) 1.46
Autoimmune diseases co-occurring within individuals and within families: a systematic review. Epidemiology (2006) 1.45
Trends in incidence of skin basal cell carcinoma. Additional evidence from a UK primary care database study. Int J Cancer (2007) 1.44
Bayesian meta-analysis of genetic association studies with different sets of markers. Am J Hum Genet (2008) 1.44
Fulfilling the promise of personalized medicine? Systematic review and field synopsis of pharmacogenetic studies. PLoS One (2009) 1.43
Incidence of community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections and pneumonia among older adults in the United Kingdom: a population-based study. PLoS One (2013) 1.43
Could NICE guidance on the choice of blood pressure lowering drugs be simplified? BMJ (2012) 1.41
Subgroup and per-protocol analyses from the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial. J Hypertens (2014) 1.41
The risk of fractures associated with thiazolidinediones: a self-controlled case-series study. PLoS Med (2009) 1.40
The Prevalence of Huntington's Disease. Neuroepidemiology (2016) 1.40
Vision screening. Br J Ophthalmol (2009) 1.38
Genetics of ischaemic stroke among persons of non-European descent: a meta-analysis of eight genes involving approximately 32,500 individuals. PLoS Med (2007) 1.38
Incidence of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer - a cohort study using linked United Kingdom databases. Eur J Cancer (2012) 1.35
Local area deprivation and urban-rural differences in anxiety and depression among people older than 75 years in Britain. Am J Public Health (2004) 1.31
Detecting chronic kidney disease in older people; what are the implications? Age Ageing (2007) 1.30
Mining biomarkers in human sera using proteomic tools. Proteomics (2004) 1.30
Prevalence of adult Huntington's disease in the UK based on diagnoses recorded in general practice records. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry (2013) 1.30
Validity of the Clock-Drawing Test as a screening tool for cognitive impairment in the elderly. Am J Epidemiol (2004) 1.30