Published in Int J Epidemiol on February 28, 2007
Validation of the symptom pattern method for analyzing verbal autopsy data. PLoS Med (2007) 4.35
Estimating deaths from cardiovascular disease: a review of global methodologies of mortality measurement. Circulation (2013) 2.22
Estimated causes of death in Thailand, 2005: implications for health policy. Popul Health Metr (2010) 1.74
Influenza-associated mortality in temperate and subtropical Chinese cities, 2003-2008. Bull World Health Organ (2012) 1.69
Liver cirrhosis mortality in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. BMC Med (2014) 1.66
Impact of misclassification on measures of cardiovascular disease mortality in the Islamic Republic of Iran: a cross-sectional study. Bull World Health Organ (2008) 1.66
Verifying causes of death in Thailand: rationale and methods for empirical investigation. Popul Health Metr (2010) 1.63
Cause-specific mortality patterns among hospital deaths in Thailand: validating routine death certification. Popul Health Metr (2010) 1.60
A composite metric for assessing data on mortality and causes of death: the vital statistics performance index. Popul Health Metr (2014) 1.32
Evaluation of the quality of cause of death statistics in rural China using verbal autopsies. J Epidemiol Community Health (2007) 1.31
Systematic review of statistics on causes of deaths in hospitals: strengthening the evidence for policy-makers. Bull World Health Organ (2014) 1.29
Do we really know the cause of death of the very old? Comparison between official mortality statistics and cohort study classification. Eur J Epidemiol (2009) 1.25
Cruciferous vegetable consumption is associated with a reduced risk of total and cardiovascular disease mortality. Am J Clin Nutr (2011) 1.22
Body mass index at various ages and mortality in Chinese women: impact of potential methodological biases. Int J Obes (Lond) (2008) 1.16
Reproductive history and mortality from cardiovascular disease among women textile workers in Shanghai, China. Int J Epidemiol (2011) 1.06
Validity of Diagnostic Codes for Acute Stroke in Administrative Databases: A Systematic Review. PLoS One (2015) 1.04
Childhood and adult mortality from unintentional falls in India. Bull World Health Organ (2011) 0.95
Mortality in Central Java: results from the indonesian mortality registration system strengthening project. BMC Res Notes (2010) 0.90
Mortality measures from sample-based surveillance: evidence of the epidemiological transition in Viet Nam. Bull World Health Organ (2012) 0.89
Modifying effect of calcium/magnesium intake ratio and mortality: a population-based cohort study. BMJ Open (2013) 0.87
Epidemiologic application of verbal autopsy to investigate the high occurrence of cancer along Huai River Basin, China. Popul Health Metr (2011) 0.82
Unexpected excessive chronic obstructive pulmonary disease mortality among female silk textile workers in Shanghai, China. Occup Environ Med (2011) 0.82
Nutrition deficiency increases the risk of stomach cancer mortality. BMC Cancer (2012) 0.82
Commentary: Reliable measurement of the causes of mortality in developing countries. Int J Epidemiol (2007) 0.80
Evaluation of cause of deaths' validity using outcome measures from a prospective, population based cohort study in Tehran, Iran. PLoS One (2012) 0.80
Hospital cause-of-death statistics: what should we make of them? Bull World Health Organ (2014) 0.78
Occupational exposures and mortality from cardiovascular disease among women textile workers in Shanghai, China. Am J Ind Med (2012) 0.77
Epidemiological characteristics of cancer in elderly chinese. ISRN Oncol (2012) 0.75
Benefit packages for chronic disease outpatients in the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme in 32 Chinese counties. F1000Res (2013) 0.75
Mortality trends for ischemic heart disease in China: an analysis of 102 continuous disease surveillance points from 1991 to 2009. BMC Public Health (2017) 0.75
The incomparability of cause of death statistics under "one country, two systems": Shanghai versus Hong Kong. Popul Health Metr (2017) 0.75
Cancer statistics, 2014. CA Cancer J Clin (2014) 72.81
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
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
Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5. Lancet (2010) 33.69
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
Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of disease. Lancet (2002) 24.47
Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet (2012) 17.62
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
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
GBD 2010: design, definitions, and metrics. Lancet (2012) 8.64
Healthy life expectancy for 187 countries, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 8.22
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
Breast cancer statistics, 2013. CA Cancer J Clin (2013) 7.35
Risk factors for suicide in China: a national case-control psychological autopsy study. Lancet (2002) 7.00
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
Measuring the global burden of disease. N Engl J Med (2013) 5.84
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
Estimates of global and regional potential health gains from reducing multiple major risk factors. Lancet (2003) 5.26
Measuring the burden of neglected tropical diseases: the global burden of disease framework. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2007) 4.87
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
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
Role of smoking in global and regional cardiovascular mortality. Circulation (2005) 3.57
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
Prevalence of smoking in China in 2010. N Engl J Med (2011) 3.38
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
Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets. Popul Health Metr (2011) 3.21
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
Stages of the cigarette epidemic on entering its second century. Tob Control (2012) 2.98
Mortality in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1964-2004. Bull World Health Organ (2007) 2.93
Suicide and the unique prevalence pattern of schizophrenia in mainland China: a retrospective observational study. Lancet (2004) 2.86
Distribution of major health risks: findings from the Global Burden of Disease study. PLoS Med (2004) 2.84
Comparative quantification of health risks conceptual framework and methodological issues. Popul Health Metr (2003) 2.80
Interim measures for meeting needs for health sector data: births, deaths, and causes of death. Lancet (2007) 2.71
Global burden of disease 2005: call for collaborators. Lancet (2007) 2.64
Burden of disease and injury in Australia in the new millennium: measuring health loss from diseases, injuries and risk factors. Med J Aust (2008) 2.63
Role of smoking in global and regional cancer epidemiology: current patterns and data needs. Int J Cancer (2005) 2.62
Performance of physician-certified verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards. Popul Health Metr (2011) 2.62
What can we conclude from death registration? Improved methods for evaluating completeness. PLoS Med (2010) 2.61
Using verbal autopsy to measure causes of death: the comparative performance of existing methods. BMC Med (2014) 2.39
Core verbal autopsy procedures with comparative validation results from two countries. PLoS Med (2006) 2.36
Measuring adult mortality using sibling survival: a new analytical method and new results for 44 countries, 1974-2006. PLoS Med (2010) 2.32
Reductions in child mortality levels and inequalities in Thailand: analysis of two censuses. Lancet (2007) 2.30
Epidemiologic transition interrupted: a reassessment of mortality trends in Thailand, 1980-2000. Int J Epidemiol (2006) 2.23
Design options for sample-based mortality surveillance. Int J Epidemiol (2005) 2.15
Measuring under-five mortality: validation of new low-cost methods. PLoS Med (2010) 2.14
Body mass index and mortality in China: a 15-year prospective study of 220 000 men. Int J Epidemiol (2012) 2.09
Performance of InterVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards. Popul Health Metr (2011) 2.06
Should data from demographic surveillance systems be made more widely available to researchers? PLoS Med (2008) 2.06
Cause-of-death ascertainment for deaths that occur outside hospitals in Thailand: application of verbal autopsy methods. Popul Health Metr (2010) 1.99
Improving diet and physical activity: 12 lessons from controlling tobacco smoking. BMJ (2005) 1.93
Fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular disease and the use of therapies for secondary prevention in a rural region of India. Circulation (2009) 1.92
Cohort profile: the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). Int J Epidemiol (2012) 1.89
Evaluating national cause-of-death statistics: principles and application to the case of China. Bull World Health Organ (2005) 1.83
Low-planned suicides in China. Psychol Med (2005) 1.81
Smoking among adolescents in China: 1998 survey findings. Int J Epidemiol (2004) 1.81
Esophageal cancer and body mass index: results from a prospective study of 220,000 men in China and a meta-analysis of published studies. Int J Cancer (2008) 1.79
GBD 2010: a multi-investigator collaboration for global comparative descriptive epidemiology. Lancet (2012) 1.77
Estimated causes of death in Thailand, 2005: implications for health policy. Popul Health Metr (2010) 1.74
Health and health-care systems in southeast Asia: diversity and transitions. Lancet (2011) 1.68
Liver cirrhosis mortality in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. BMC Med (2014) 1.66
Impact of misclassification on measures of cardiovascular disease mortality in the Islamic Republic of Iran: a cross-sectional study. Bull World Health Organ (2008) 1.66
Body mass index, blood pressure, and mortality from stroke: a nationally representative prospective study of 212,000 Chinese men. Stroke (2008) 1.63
Verifying causes of death in Thailand: rationale and methods for empirical investigation. Popul Health Metr (2010) 1.63
Cause-specific mortality patterns among hospital deaths in Thailand: validating routine death certification. Popul Health Metr (2010) 1.60
Suicide rates in China during a decade of rapid social changes. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol (2005) 1.56
In-depth proteome analysis of Arabidopsis leaf peroxisomes combined with in vivo subcellular targeting verification indicates novel metabolic and regulatory functions of peroxisomes. Plant Physiol (2009) 1.55