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The validity of self-reports of past body weights by U.S. adults. Epidemiology (1995) 2.31
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Predicting lower-extremity injuries among habitual runners. Arch Intern Med (1989) 2.06
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Weight control practices of U.S. adolescents and adults. Ann Intern Med (1993) 1.60
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Prospective study of intentionality of weight loss and mortality in older women: the Iowa Women's Health Study. Am J Epidemiol (1999) 1.47
Race and weight change in US women: the roles of socioeconomic and marital status. Am J Public Health (1991) 1.46
Alcohol and body weight in United States adults. Am J Public Health (1987) 1.44
The prevalence of high blood cholesterol levels among adults in the United States. JAMA (1989) 1.44
Completeness of ascertainment of prenatal smoking using birth certificates and confidential questionnaires: variations by maternal attributes and infant birth weight. PRAMS Working Group. Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System. Am J Epidemiol (1998) 1.43
A comparison of alcohol sales data with survey data on self-reported alcohol use in 21 states. Am J Public Health (1990) 1.42
Consequences of the use of different measures of effect to determine the impact of age on the association between obesity and mortality. Am J Epidemiol (1999) 1.38
The body mass index-mortality relationship in white and African American women. Obes Res (1998) 1.38
Baseline and previous physical activity in relation to mortality in elderly men: the Zutphen Elderly Study. Am J Epidemiol (1999) 1.33
Weight cycling, weight gain, and risk of hypertension in women. Am J Epidemiol (1999) 1.33
A prospective study of alcohol intake and change in body weight among US adults. Am J Epidemiol (1994) 1.32
The box plot: a simple visual method to interpret data. Ann Intern Med (1989) 1.32
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Comparing the prevalence of smoking in pregnant and nonpregnant women, 1985 to 1986. JAMA (1989) 1.29
Simple anthropometric indices associated with ischemic heart disease. J Clin Epidemiol (1996) 1.29
Is race associated with weight change in US adults after adjustment for income, education, and marital factors? Am J Clin Nutr (1991) 1.28
Hospitalization for pregnancy complications, United States, 1986 and 1987. Am J Obstet Gynecol (1992) 1.26
Effects of smoking reduction during pregnancy on the birth weight of term infants. Am J Epidemiol (2001) 1.25
Leisure-time physical activity among older adults. United States, 1990. Arch Intern Med (1996) 1.25
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Weight loss and subsequent death in a cohort of U.S. adults. Ann Intern Med (1993) 1.20
Cigarette smoking as a risk factor for ectopic pregnancy. Am J Obstet Gynecol (1998) 1.20
Translation research for chronic disease: the case of diabetes. Diabetes Care (2000) 1.19
Alcohol and fatal injuries among US adults. Findings from the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study. JAMA (1988) 1.19
Vitamin and mineral supplement use and mortality in a US cohort. Am J Public Health (1993) 1.18
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Pregnancy planning and pre-conception counseling. The PRAMS Working Group. Obstet Gynecol (1993) 1.16
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Depressive symptoms and weight change in a national cohort of adults. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord (1992) 1.11
Bias assessment for child abuse survey: factors affecting probability of response to a survey about childhood abuse. Child Abuse Negl (2001) 1.10
Risk factors for sudden coronary death in the United States. Epidemiology (1997) 1.09
Abused boys, battered mothers, and male involvement in teen pregnancy. Pediatrics (2001) 1.09
The risk of low birth weight associated with vaginal douching. Obstet Gynecol (1998) 1.08
The contributions of income, education and changing marital status to weight change among US men. Int J Obes (1990) 1.08
Physical activity and chronic diseases. Am J Clin Nutr (1989) 1.05
Self-perceived stress and the risk of peptic ulcer disease. A longitudinal study of US adults. Arch Intern Med (1992) 1.04
Pharmacotherapy for obesity. JAMA (1999) 1.03
Complications of vasectomies in the United States. J Fam Pract (1987) 1.03
Alcohol use and health behavior lifestyles among U.S. women: the behavioral risk factor surveys. Addict Behav (1988) 0.99
Weight loss maintenance in young adulthood: prevalence and correlations with health behavior and disease in a population-based sample of women aged 55-69 years. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord (1996) 0.99
Physical activity and cardiovascular risk factors among elderly men in Finland, Italy, and the Netherlands. Am J Epidemiol (1996) 0.98
Relation of body fat distribution to ischemic heart disease. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I (NHANES I) Epidemiologic Follow-up Study. Am J Epidemiol (1995) 0.98