Published in Lancet on December 11, 2007
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A cost-effectiveness analysis of India's 2008 prohibition of smoking in public places in Gujarat. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2011) 0.78
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Estimates of worldwide burden of cancer in 2008: GLOBOCAN 2008. Int J Cancer (2010) 90.16
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
Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012. Int J Cancer (2014) 40.30
Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data. Lancet (2006) 37.83
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Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: a systematic analysis. Lancet (2010) 26.48
Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences. Lancet (2008) 26.44
Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000. Lancet (2012) 25.96
Global prevalence of dementia: a Delphi consensus study. Lancet (2005) 23.30
Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet (2013) 18.02
Global burden of disease and injury and economic cost attributable to alcohol use and alcohol-use disorders. Lancet (2009) 16.12
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Treatment and prevention of mental disorders in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet (2007) 7.25
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Preventing stroke: saving lives around the world. Lancet Neurol (2007) 6.55
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Global sodium consumption and death from cardiovascular causes. N Engl J Med (2014) 5.83
The burden of mortality attributable to diabetes: realistic estimates for the year 2000. Diabetes Care (2005) 5.80
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of policies and programmes to reduce the harm caused by alcohol. Lancet (2009) 5.69
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Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants. Lancet (2016) 4.29
Chronic diseases and injuries in India. Lancet (2011) 4.27
Global and regional mortality from ischaemic heart disease and stroke attributable to higher-than-optimum blood glucose concentration: comparative risk assessment. Lancet (2006) 4.26
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Raising the priority of preventing chronic diseases: a political process. Lancet (2010) 4.16
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Poverty and mental disorders: breaking the cycle in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet (2011) 3.64
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PRIME: a programme to reduce the treatment gap for mental disorders in five low- and middle-income countries. PLoS Med (2012) 3.21
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