Published in Int J Epidemiol on December 17, 2008
Commentary: Maziak's essay, seen from another angle. Int J Epidemiol (2008) 1.49
Is uncertainty in complex disease epidemiology resolvable? Emerg Themes Epidemiol (2015) 0.75
Response: Time for species--course epidemiology? Int J Epidemiol (2008) 0.75
Sick individuals and sick populations. Int J Epidemiol (1985) 23.44
Hay fever, hygiene, and household size. BMJ (1989) 15.94
Neighborhood of residence and incidence of coronary heart disease. N Engl J Med (2001) 15.16
International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC): rationale and methods. Eur Respir J (1995) 13.01
Low-fat dietary pattern and risk of cardiovascular disease: the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial. JAMA (2006) 12.44
Epidemiology faces its limits. Science (1995) 12.39
Fish consumption, fish oil, omega-3 fatty acids, and cardiovascular disease. Circulation (2002) 9.02
The asthma epidemic. N Engl J Med (2006) 8.60
The European Community Respiratory Health Survey. Eur Respir J (1994) 7.87
Choosing a future for epidemiology: II. From black box to Chinese boxes and eco-epidemiology. Am J Public Health (1996) 7.44
Multilevel analysis in public health research. Annu Rev Public Health (2000) 7.28
Life course epidemiology. J Epidemiol Community Health (2003) 6.75
Origins and evolution of the Western diet: health implications for the 21st century. Am J Clin Nutr (2005) 6.50
Those confounded vitamins: what can we learn from the differences between observational versus randomised trial evidence? Lancet (2004) 6.37
When are observational studies as credible as randomised trials? Lancet (2004) 6.19
Dissecting complex disease: the quest for the Philosopher's Stone? Int J Epidemiol (2006) 5.64
An "ecological" approach to the obesity pandemic. BMJ (1997) 5.43
Bias and causal associations in observational research. Lancet (2002) 5.36
Choosing a future for epidemiology: I. Eras and paradigms. Am J Public Health (1996) 5.25
Vascular events in healthy older women receiving calcium supplementation: randomised controlled trial. BMJ (2008) 5.14
The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies. Epidemiology (2007) 5.12
Traditional epidemiology, modern epidemiology, and public health. Am J Public Health (1996) 5.11
Mendelian randomization: prospects, potentials, and limitations. Int J Epidemiol (2004) 5.07
The value of risk-factor ("black-box") epidemiology. Epidemiology (2004) 5.06
Invited commentary: Advancing theory and methods for multilevel models of residential neighborhoods and health. Am J Epidemiol (2003) 4.73
Allergy and allergic diseases. First of two parts. N Engl J Med (2001) 4.33
Observational research, randomised trials, and two views of medical science. PLoS Med (2008) 4.02
Fruit and vegetable intake and risk of cardiovascular disease: the Women's Health Study. Am J Clin Nutr (2000) 3.99
Prisoners of the proximate: loosening the constraints on epidemiology in an age of change. Am J Epidemiol (1999) 3.92
Whole-grain consumption and risk of coronary heart disease: results from the Nurses' Health Study. Am J Clin Nutr (1999) 3.89
Clustered environments and randomized genes: a fundamental distinction between conventional and genetic epidemiology. PLoS Med (2007) 3.71
The evolution of personality variation in humans and other animals. Am Psychol (2006) 3.69
Does risk factor epidemiology put epidemiology at risk? Peering into the future. J Epidemiol Community Health (1998) 3.64
The failure of academic epidemiology: witness for the prosecution. Am J Epidemiol (1997) 3.41
Obesity is a risk for asthma and wheeze but not airway hyperresponsiveness. Thorax (2001) 3.27
Dietary fat intake and risk of coronary heart disease in women: 20 years of follow-up of the nurses' health study. Am J Epidemiol (2005) 2.70
Urban neighborhood context, educational attainment, and cognitive function among older adults. Am J Epidemiol (2006) 2.68
Synergistic effects of traffic-related air pollution and exposure to violence on urban asthma etiology. Environ Health Perspect (2007) 2.53
The emptiness of the black box. Epidemiology (1994) 2.52
Prospective study of major dietary patterns and stroke risk in women. Stroke (2004) 2.52
Reflections on the limitations to epidemiology. J Clin Epidemiol (2001) 2.42
Nutrition. The soft science of dietary fat. Science (2001) 2.30
Reassessing the role of epidemiology in public health. Am J Public Health (1999) 2.20
Exploring the developmental overnutrition hypothesis using parental-offspring associations and FTO as an instrumental variable. PLoS Med (2008) 2.16
In defense of pharmacoepidemiology--embracing the yin and yang of drug research. N Engl J Med (2007) 2.15
Asthma: an epidemic in the absence of infection? Science (1997) 2.12
Epidemiology--is it time to call it a day? Int J Epidemiol (2001) 2.12
Which clinical studies provide the best evidence? The best RCT still trumps the best observational study. BMJ (2000) 2.06
A collection of 56 topics with contradictory results in case-control research. Int J Epidemiol (1988) 2.02
Role of microbial burden in aetiology of allergy and asthma. Lancet (1999) 1.92
Parental understanding of wheeze and its impact on asthma prevalence estimates. Eur Respir J (2006) 1.89
From presumed benefit to potential harm--hormone therapy and heart disease. N Engl J Med (2003) 1.89
Cardiovascular disease resulting from a diet and lifestyle at odds with our Paleolithic genome: how to become a 21st-century hunter-gatherer. Mayo Clin Proc (2004) 1.84
How should we explain variation in the genetic variance of traits? Genetica (1998) 1.71
A multilevel analysis of state and regional disparities in childhood and adolescent obesity in the United States. J Community Health (2008) 1.67
Allergies, infections and the hygiene hypothesis--the epidemiological evidence. Immunobiology (2007) 1.67
In defense of black box epidemiology. Epidemiology (1994) 1.64
Childhood obesity: are we missing the big picture? Obes Rev (2008) 1.53
Relationship of house-dust mite allergen exposure in children's bedrooms in infancy to bronchial hyperresponsiveness and asthma diagnosis by age 6 to 7. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol (2003) 1.51
Absence of association between delayed type hypersensitivity to tuberculin and atopy in children in The Gambia. Clin Exp Allergy (2003) 1.44
Life-course socioeconomic position, area deprivation, and coronary heart disease: findings from the British Women's Heart and Health Study. Am J Public Health (2005) 1.44
Should observational studies be a thing of the past? J Natl Cancer Inst (2008) 1.43
Commentary: The rise and rise of corporate epidemiology and the narrowing of epidemiology's vision. Int J Epidemiol (2007) 1.42
Early life risk factors for current wheeze, asthma, and bronchial hyperresponsiveness at 10 years of age. Chest (2005) 1.37
Epidemiology and social sciences: towards a critical reengagement in the 21st century. Epidemiol Rev (2000) 1.35
Personal, neighbourhood and urban factors associated with obesity in the United States. J Epidemiol Community Health (2008) 1.30
Asthma phenotypes in childhood: lessons from an epidemiological approach. Paediatr Respir Rev (2004) 1.28
International patterns of the prevalence of pediatric asthma the ISAAC program. Pediatr Clin North Am (2003) 1.27
Commentary: the hormone replacement-coronary heart disease conundrum: is this the death of observational epidemiology? Int J Epidemiol (2004) 1.23
Epidemiology of asthma and recurrent wheeze in childhood. Clin Rev Allergy Immunol (2002) 1.22
Pre-natal exposure to paracetamol and risk of wheezing and asthma in children: a birth cohort study. Int J Epidemiol (2008) 1.22
Invited commentary: Considerations about specificity of associations, causal pathways, and heterogeneity in multilevel thinking. Am J Epidemiol (2006) 1.21
Evolutionary health promotion: a consideration of common counterarguments. Prev Med (2002) 1.21
The hygiene hypothesis and asthma. Curr Opin Pulm Med (2005) 1.18
The critical role played by animal source foods in human (Homo) evolution. J Nutr (2003) 1.18
Wheezing, asthma, hayfever, and atopic eczema in childhood following exposure to tobacco smoke in fetal life. Clin Exp Allergy (2005) 1.18
The hygiene theory: fact or fiction? Curr Opin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg (2004) 1.17
Pets and vermin are associated with high endotoxin levels in house dust. Clin Exp Allergy (2001) 1.16
Agreement between written and video questions for comparing asthma symptoms in ISAAC. Eur Respir J (2003) 1.14
Relationship between helminthic infection and IgE response in atopic and nonatopic children in a tropical environment. J Allergy Clin Immunol (1998) 1.12
Selenium intake and cardiovascular risk: what is new? Curr Opin Lipidol (2008) 1.11
Complexity, simplicity, and epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol (2006) 1.11
The relation of markers of fetal growth with asthma, allergies and serum immunoglobulin E levels in children at age 5-7 years. Clin Exp Allergy (2004) 1.11
Noncontraceptive estrogens and mortality: long-term follow-up of women in the Walnut Creek Study. Obstet Gynecol (1987) 1.11
Comparison of responses to an asthma symptom questionnaire (ISAAC core questions) completed by adolescents and their parents. SCARPOL-Team. Swiss Study on Childhood Allergy and Respiratory Symptoms with respect to Air Pollution. Pediatr Pulmonol (1998) 1.08
Comparison of clinically diagnosed asthma with parental assessment of children's asthma in a questionnaire. Pediatr Allergy Immunol (2007) 1.08
The validity of the ISAAC written questionnaire and the ISAAC video questionnaire (AVQ 3.0) for predicting asthma associated with bronchial hyperreactivity in a group of 13-14 year old Korean schoolchildren. J Korean Med Sci (2003) 1.07
Our conscientious objection to the epidemiology wars. J Epidemiol Community Health (1998) 1.05
Respiratory atopic disease, Ascaris-immunoglobulin E and tuberculin testing in urban South African children. Clin Exp Allergy (2006) 1.05
In search of childhood asthma: questionnaire, tests of bronchial hyperresponsiveness, and clinical evaluation. Thorax (2002) 1.02
Both alpha- and beta-carotene, but not tocopherols and vitamin C, are inversely related to 15-year cardiovascular mortality in Dutch elderly men. J Nutr (2008) 1.01
Husbands' involvement in housework and women's psychosocial health: findings from a population-based study in Lebanon. Am J Public Health (2007) 1.00
An evolutionary perspective on human physical activity: implications for health. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol (2003) 0.99
Early allergen exposure, skin prick responses, and atopic wheeze at age 5 in English children: a cohort study. Thorax (2004) 0.99
The ancestral human diet: what was it and should it be a paradigm for contemporary nutrition? Proc Nutr Soc (2006) 0.98
Wheeze, allergic sensitization and geohelminth infection in Butajira, Ethiopia. Clin Exp Allergy (2005) 0.97
Biomarkers of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in infants. Biomarkers (2007) 0.95
Climate amenity and BMI. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2007) 0.95
Skin test reactivity and Der p-induced interleukin 10 production in patients with asthma or rhinitis infected with Ascaris. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol (2006) 0.94