Nicholas L Smith

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1 New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk. Nat Genet 2010 17.89
2 Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. Nature 2011 13.25
3 Genetic variation in GIPR influences the glucose and insulin responses to an oral glucose challenge. Nat Genet 2010 6.66
4 Genomewide association studies of stroke. N Engl J Med 2009 5.29
5 Common variants at ten loci influence QT interval duration in the QTGEN Study. Nat Genet 2009 5.20
6 A genome-wide approach accounting for body mass index identifies genetic variants influencing fasting glycemic traits and insulin resistance. Nat Genet 2012 4.37
7 Common variants in KCNN3 are associated with lone atrial fibrillation. Nat Genet 2010 3.97
8 Variants in ZFHX3 are associated with atrial fibrillation in individuals of European ancestry. Nat Genet 2009 3.80
9 Meta-analysis identifies six new susceptibility loci for atrial fibrillation. Nat Genet 2012 3.71
10 Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in >80 000 subjects identifies multiple loci for C-reactive protein levels. Circulation 2011 3.68
11 Genome-wide association study identifies six new loci influencing pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure. Nat Genet 2011 3.40
12 Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals. PLoS Genet 2012 3.21
13 New gene functions in megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation. Nature 2011 3.14
14 Use of alendronate and risk of incident atrial fibrillation in women. Arch Intern Med 2008 2.66
15 Risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation in relation to body mass index. Arch Intern Med 2006 2.45
16 Genome-wide association studies of cerebral white matter lesion burden: the CHARGE consortium. Ann Neurol 2011 2.37
17 Testosterone treatment and mortality in men with low testosterone levels. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2012 2.29
18 Genetic variants associated with cardiac structure and function: a meta-analysis and replication of genome-wide association data. JAMA 2009 2.10
19 Large-scale genomic studies reveal central role of ABO in sP-selectin and sICAM-1 levels. Hum Mol Genet 2010 2.05
20 Congestive heart failure incidence and prognosis: case identification using central adjudication versus hospital discharge diagnoses. Ann Epidemiol 2005 2.03
21 Newly detected atrial fibrillation and compliance with antithrombotic guidelines. Arch Intern Med 2007 2.00
22 Survival associated with two sets of diagnostic criteria for congestive heart failure. Am J Epidemiol 2004 1.99
23 Multiethnic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in >100 000 subjects identifies 23 fibrinogen-associated Loci but no strong evidence of a causal association between circulating fibrinogen and cardiovascular disease. Circulation 2013 1.77
24 A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans. PLoS One 2012 1.72
25 Epidemiology of incident heart failure in a contemporary elderly cohort: the health, aging, and body composition study. Arch Intern Med 2009 1.71
26 Serum lipid levels and the risk of venous thrombosis. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2004 1.69
27 Longitudinal association between depressive symptoms and incident type 2 diabetes mellitus in older adults: the cardiovascular health study. Arch Intern Med 2007 1.66
28 Myocardial infarction and stroke associated with diuretic based two drug antihypertensive regimens: population based case-control study. BMJ 2010 1.58
29 Time trends in high blood pressure control and the use of antihypertensive medications in older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Arch Intern Med 2002 1.56
30 Weight loss, muscle strength, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in older adults with congestive heart failure or hypertension. J Am Geriatr Soc 2005 1.54
31 Genomic variation associated with mortality among adults of European and African ancestry with heart failure: the cohorts for heart and aging research in genomic epidemiology consortium. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2010 1.52
32 Diabetes mellitus, glycemic control, and risk of atrial fibrillation. J Gen Intern Med 2010 1.50
33 Esterified estrogen and conjugated equine estrogen and the risk of incident myocardial infarction and stroke. Arch Intern Med 2006 1.50
34 The association of spiritual care providers' activities with family members' satisfaction with care after a death in the ICU*. Crit Care Med 2014 1.49
35 Genome-wide association study for circulating tissue plasminogen activator levels and functional follow-up implicates endothelial STXBP5 and STX2. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2014 1.45
36 Association of novel genetic Loci with circulating fibrinogen levels: a genome-wide association study in 6 population-based cohorts. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2009 1.41
37 Smoking status and risk for recurrent coronary events after myocardial infarction. Ann Intern Med 2002 1.27
38 Antihypertensive treatment with ACE inhibitors or beta-blockers and risk of incident atrial fibrillation in a general hypertensive population. Am J Hypertens 2009 1.27
39 Genome-wide association study for circulating levels of PAI-1 provides novel insights into its regulation. Blood 2012 1.26
40 Validation of the health ABC heart failure model for incident heart failure risk prediction: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Circ Heart Fail 2010 1.24
41 Diabetes and coronary heart disease as risk factors for mortality in older adults. Am J Med 2010 1.24
42 Diuretic therapy, the alpha-adducin gene variant, and the risk of myocardial infarction or stroke in persons with treated hypertension. JAMA 2002 1.23
43 Hormone replacement therapy and associated risk of stroke in postmenopausal women. Arch Intern Med 2002 1.22
44 Evaluating options for measurement of neighborhood socioeconomic context: evidence from a myocardial infarction case-control study. Health Place 2007 1.16
45 The association of fasting glucose levels with congestive heart failure in diabetic adults > or =65 years: the Cardiovascular Health Study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 1.14
46 Common genetic variation in the 3'-BCL11B gene desert is associated with carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity and excess cardiovascular disease risk: the AortaGen Consortium. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2011 1.11
47 Integrating genetic, transcriptional, and functional analyses to identify 5 novel genes for atrial fibrillation. Circulation 2014 1.11
48 Common variation in cytochrome P450 epoxygenase genes and the risk of incident nonfatal myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke. Pharmacogenet Genomics 2008 1.09
49 Eight genetic loci associated with variation in lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 mass and activity and coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies from five community-based studies. Eur Heart J 2011 1.08
50 Matrix metalloproteinase-3 (MMP3) and MMP9 genes and risk of myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, and hemorrhagic stroke. Atherosclerosis 2008 1.08
51 Association of genomic loci from a cardiovascular gene SNP array with fibrinogen levels in European Americans and African-Americans from six cohort studies: the Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe). Blood 2010 1.07
52 Mortality in pharmacologically treated older adults with diabetes: the Cardiovascular Health Study, 1989-2001. PLoS Med 2006 1.06
53 Variation in eicosanoid genes, non-fatal myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke. Atherosclerosis 2008 1.05
54 Variation in inflammation-related genes and risk of incident nonfatal myocardial infarction or ischemic stroke. Atherosclerosis 2007 1.05
55 Effect of genetic variations in syntaxin-binding protein-5 and syntaxin-2 on von Willebrand factor concentration and cardiovascular risk. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2010 1.01
56 Cholesterol ester transfer protein, interleukin-8, peroxisome proliferator activator receptor alpha, and Toll-like receptor 4 genetic variations and risk of incident nonfatal myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke. Am J Cardiol 2008 1.00
57 Validation of the normalized difference vegetation index as a measure of neighborhood greenness. Ann Epidemiol 2011 0.96
58 Genetic associations with expression for genes implicated in GWAS studies for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and blood phenotypes. Hum Mol Genet 2013 0.93
59 Fasting and post-glucose load measures of insulin resistance and risk of ischemic stroke in older adults. Stroke 2011 0.93
60 A variational Bayes discrete mixture test for rare variant association. Genet Epidemiol 2014 0.92
61 beta1- and beta2-adrenergic receptor gene variation, beta-blocker use and risk of myocardial infarction and stroke. Am J Hypertens 2008 0.91
62 Race, gender, and mortality in adults > or =65 years of age with incident heart failure (from the Cardiovascular Health Study). Am J Cardiol 2009 0.90
63 Association of body mass index, diabetes, hypertension, and blood pressure levels with risk of permanent atrial fibrillation. J Gen Intern Med 2012 0.90
64 Determining zygosity in the Vietnam era twin registry: an update. Twin Res Hum Genet 2010 0.88
65 Hypertension in a population of active duty service members. J Am Board Fam Med 2008 0.88
66 Genome-wide association study of cardiac structure and systolic function in African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe) study. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2012 0.87
67 Ascertainment of warfarin and aspirin use by medical record review compared with automated pharmacy data. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2010 0.87
68 HLA genes, islet autoantibodies and residual C-peptide at the clinical onset of type 1 diabetes mellitus and the risk of retinopathy 15 years later. PLoS One 2011 0.87
69 Angiotensinogen Met235Thr polymorphism, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor therapy, and the risk of nonfatal stroke or myocardial infarction in hypertensive patients. Am J Hypertens 2003 0.87
70 Ceruloplasmin and heart failure in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study. Circ Heart Fail 2013 0.87
71 Transforming growth factor beta-1 and incidence of heart failure in older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Cytokine 2012 0.84
72 Genetic variants of coagulation factor XIII, postmenopausal estrogen therapy, and risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction. Blood 2002 0.84
73 Testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, and incident cardiovascular disease and mortality in the cardiovascular health study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2014 0.83
74 The Vietnam Era Twin Registry: a quarter century of progress. Twin Res Hum Genet 2012 0.83
75 SHARE: an adaptive algorithm to select the most informative set of SNPs for candidate genetic association. Biostatistics 2009 0.83
76 A gene-centric association scan for Coagulation Factor VII levels in European and African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe) Consortium. Hum Mol Genet 2011 0.81
77 Testosterone and dihydrotestosterone and incident ischaemic stroke in men in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2014 0.81
78 Hormone replacement therapy and the risk of incident congestive heart failure: the Cardiovascular Health Study. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2003 0.81
79 Genetic loci for retinal arteriolar microcirculation. PLoS One 2013 0.80
80 Hormone replacement therapy, prothrombotic mutations, and the risk of incident nonfatal ischemic stroke in postmenopausal women. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2002 0.80
81 Predictors of end-stage renal disease in the urban poor. J Health Care Poor Underserved 2013 0.80
82 The association of PTSD with physical and mental health functioning and disability (VA Cooperative Study #569: the course and consequences of posttraumatic stress disorder in Vietnam-era veteran twins). Qual Life Res 2013 0.80
83 Neighborhood Crime-Related Safety and Its Relation to Children's Physical Activity. J Urban Health 2015 0.79
84 The effect of calcium plus vitamin D supplementation on the risk of venous thromboembolism. From the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Trial. Thromb Haemost 2015 0.79
85 Common genetic variation in six lipid-related and statin-related genes, statin use and risk of incident nonfatal myocardial infarction and stroke. Pharmacogenet Genomics 2008 0.79
86 Risk of congestive heart failure in an elderly population treated with peripheral alpha-1 antagonists. J Am Geriatr Soc 2004 0.78
87 Amount of leisure-time physical activity and risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction. Ann Epidemiol 2007 0.78
88 Short-term and long-term risk of incident ischemic stroke after transient ischemic attack. Stroke 2009 0.78
89 Association of beta-blocker use with mortality among patients with congestive heart failure in the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS). Am Heart J 2005 0.78
90 Epidemiologic approaches to veterans' health. Epidemiol Rev 2015 0.78
91 Smoking, postmenopausal hormone therapy and the risk of venous thrombosis: a population-based, case-control study. Br J Haematol 2013 0.77
92 Common genetic variation in the prothrombin gene, hormone therapy, and incident nonfatal myocardial infarction in postmenopausal women. Am J Epidemiol 2006 0.76
93 MAOA promoter methylation and susceptibility to carotid atherosclerosis: role of familial factors in a monozygotic twin sample. BMC Med Genet 2012 0.76
94 Prior hysterectomy and oophorectomy and incident venous thrombosis risk among postmenopausal women: a population-based, case-control study. Menopause 2016 0.75
95 The cross-sectional association between vasomotor symptoms and hemostatic parameter levels in postmenopausal women. Menopause 2016 0.75
96 Large-scale genome-wide analysis identifies genetic variants associated with cardiac structure and function. J Clin Invest 2017 0.75
97 The association of F11 genetic variants with the risk of incident venous thrombosis among women, by statin use. Thromb Haemost 2015 0.75
98 Mental stress-induced ischemia and all-cause mortality in patients with coronary artery disease. Circulation 2002 0.75
99 Risk of myocardial infarction attributable to elevated levels of total cholesterol among hypertensives. Am J Hypertens 2005 0.75
100 Erratum: Genetic loci associated with heart rate variability and their effects on cardiac disease risk. Nat Commun 2017 0.75
101 Women veterans and outcomes after acute myocardial infarction. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2009 0.75