Published in BMJ on April 16, 2009
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Explaining the decline in coronary heart disease mortality in England and Wales between 1981 and 2000. Circulation (2004) 6.46
Adherence with statin therapy in elderly patients with and without acute coronary syndromes. JAMA (2002) 6.30
Validation studies of the health improvement network (THIN) database for pharmacoepidemiology research. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf (2007) 5.93
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The recent decline in mortality from coronary heart disease, 1980-1990. The effect of secular trends in risk factors and treatment. JAMA (1997) 5.36
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Effect of social deprivation on blood pressure monitoring and control in England: a survey of data from the quality and outcomes framework. BMJ (2008) 3.80
Meta-analysis of relation between cigarette smoking and stroke. BMJ (1989) 3.71
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Combining multiple approaches for the secondary prevention of vascular events after stroke: a quantitative modeling study. Stroke (2007) 2.63
A systematic review and economic evaluation of statins for the prevention of coronary events. Health Technol Assess (2007) 2.62
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Explanation for the decline in coronary heart disease mortality rates in Auckland, New Zealand, between 1982 and 1993. Circulation (2000) 2.45
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Does gender bias exist in the use of specialist health care? J Health Serv Res Policy (2000) 1.97
Risk of upper gastrointestinal complications among users of traditional NSAIDs and COXIBs in the general population. Gastroenterology (2006) 1.91
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Making the most of secondary prevention. Stroke (2007) 1.42
Cerebrovascular risk factors and stroke subtypes: differences between ethnic groups. Stroke (2001) 1.39
Are there inequalities in the provision of stroke care? Analysis of an inner-city stroke register. Stroke (2004) 1.35
Is the British National Health Service equitable? The evidence on socioeconomic differences in utilization. J Health Serv Res Policy (2007) 1.26
Does ageism affect the management of ischaemic heart disease? J Health Serv Res Policy (2003) 1.19
Influence of socioeconomic status on mortality after stroke: retrospective cohort study. Stroke (2004) 1.11
Cholesterol lowering in the elderly. Results of the Cholesterol Reduction in Seniors Program (CRISP) pilot study. Arch Intern Med (1994) 1.10
The relation between cholesterol and haemorrhagic or ischaemic stroke in the Renfrew/Paisley study. J Epidemiol Community Health (2000) 0.94
Antithrombotic and antihypertensive management 3 months after ischemic stroke : a prospective study in an inner city population. Stroke (2000) 0.89
Missed opportunities for secondary prevention of cerebrovascular disease in elderly British men from 1999 to 2005: a population-based study. J Public Health (Oxf) (2007) 0.87
Who should receive a statin these days? Lessons from recent clinical trials. J Intern Med (2006) 0.81
Is there a sex or race difference in stroke mortality? J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2007) 0.80
Chronic liver disease in the primary care practices of Waterbury, Connecticut. Hepatology (2003) 0.78
A simple approach to improve recording of concerns about child maltreatment in primary care records: developing a quality improvement intervention. Br J Gen Pract (2012) 4.50
Relative risk of cardiovascular and cancer mortality in people with severe mental illness from the United Kingdom's General Practice Rsearch Database. Arch Gen Psychiatry (2007) 4.26
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health in 10 European countries. Int J Epidemiol (2004) 3.57
Explaining variation in referral from primary to secondary care: cohort study. BMJ (2010) 3.34
Cardiovascular events as a function of serum bilirubin levels in a large, statin-treated cohort. Circulation (2012) 3.11
Evaluating the impact of population and high-risk strategies for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Eur Heart J (2004) 2.91
Does the misreporting of adult body size depend upon an individual's height and weight? Methodological debate. Int J Epidemiol (2004) 2.73
Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment of the complex regional pain syndrome: a randomized trial. Ann Intern Med (2010) 2.55
Creating medical and drug code lists to identify cases in primary care databases. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf (2009) 2.52
Suicidal behavior and severe neuropsychiatric disorders following glucocorticoid therapy in primary care. Am J Psychiatry (2012) 2.47
Estimates of global prevalence of childhood underweight in 1990 and 2015. JAMA (2004) 2.34
Case-mix and variation in specialist referrals in general practice. Br J Gen Pract (2005) 2.29
Survival of people with clinical diagnosis of dementia in primary care: cohort study. BMJ (2010) 2.15
Prevalence of common mental disorders in general practice attendees across Europe. Br J Psychiatry (2008) 2.12
Methodology for estimating regional and global trends of child malnutrition. Int J Epidemiol (2004) 2.10
Identifying periods of acceptable computer usage in primary care research databases. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf (2012) 1.98
Prevalence of long-term oral glucocorticoid prescriptions in the UK over the past 20 years. Rheumatology (Oxford) (2011) 1.98
Quality of life at older ages: evidence from the English longitudinal study of aging (wave 1). J Epidemiol Community Health (2006) 1.96
Frequency of the WHO metabolic syndrome in European cohorts, and an alternative definition of an insulin resistance syndrome. Diabetes Metab (2002) 1.95
Incidence of maternal and paternal depression in primary care: a cohort study using a primary care database. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (2010) 1.91
Issues in multiple imputation of missing data for large general practice clinical databases. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf (2010) 1.85
Patellar resurfacing in total knee replacement: five-year clinical and economic results of a large randomized controlled trial. J Bone Joint Surg Am (2011) 1.84
Recent trends in the incidence of recorded depression in primary care. Br J Psychiatry (2009) 1.83
Association between practice size and quality of care of patients with ischaemic heart disease: cross sectional study. BMJ (2003) 1.83
Effect of ethnicity and gender on performance in undergraduate medical examinations. Med Educ (2005) 1.82
Variation in recorded child maltreatment concerns in UK primary care records: a cohort study using The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database. PLoS One (2012) 1.80
Mortality following bacteraemic infection caused by extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing E. coli compared to non-ESBL producing E. coli. J Infect (2007) 1.78
Gilbert's syndrome and the risk of death: a population-based cohort study. J Gastroenterol Hepatol (2013) 1.74
Do men consult less than women? An analysis of routinely collected UK general practice data. BMJ Open (2013) 1.69
Risk of cardiovascular events in people prescribed glucocorticoids with iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome: cohort study. BMJ (2012) 1.69
Psychosocial determinants of health in social epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol (2002) 1.68
Socio-demographic predictors of quitting smoking: how important are household factors? Addiction (2004) 1.66
Are weekend handovers of adequate quality for the on-call general medical team? Clin Med (2011) 1.64
Quality of life in older ages. Br Med Bull (2008) 1.59
Who you live with and where you live: setting the context for health using multiple membership multilevel models. J Epidemiol Community Health (2005) 1.58
Guillain-Barré syndrome and preceding infection with campylobacter, influenza and Epstein-Barr virus in the general practice research database. PLoS One (2007) 1.47
Does waiting for total hip replacement matter? Prospective cohort study. J Health Serv Res Policy (2002) 1.44
Health selection in the Whitehall II study, UK. Soc Sci Med (2003) 1.41
Genome-wide association study reveals multiple loci associated with primary tooth development during infancy. PLoS Genet (2010) 1.40
Increasing hospitalizations and general practice prescriptions for community-onset staphylococcal disease, England. Emerg Infect Dis (2008) 1.39
Morphology of inhibitory and excitatory interneurons in superficial laminae of the rat dorsal horn. J Physiol (2007) 1.38
Incidence of Guillain-Barré syndrome among patients with Campylobacter infection: a general practice research database study. J Infect Dis (2006) 1.36
Inequalities in the provision of cardiovascular screening to people with severe mental illnesses in primary care: cohort study in the United Kingdom THIN Primary Care Database 2000-2007. Schizophr Res (2011) 1.35
The incidence of eating disorders in the UK in 2000-2009: findings from the General Practice Research Database. BMJ Open (2013) 1.34
Social inequality in educational achievement and psychosocial adjustment throughout childhood: magnitude and mechanisms. Soc Sci Med (2002) 1.30
Does conflict between home and work explain the effect of multiple roles on mental health? A comparative study of Finland, Japan, and the UK. Int J Epidemiol (2004) 1.30
Serum bilirubin and risk of respiratory disease and death. JAMA (2011) 1.29
Social dynamics of health inequalities: a growth curve analysis of aging and self assessed health in the British household panel survey 1991-2001. J Epidemiol Community Health (2005) 1.27
Do perceptions of neighbourhood environment influence health? Baseline findings from a British survey of aging. J Epidemiol Community Health (2006) 1.25
Panic disorder and risk of new onset coronary heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, and cardiac mortality: cohort study using the general practice research database. Eur Heart J (2008) 1.25
Adverse childhood experiences and premature all-cause mortality. Eur J Epidemiol (2013) 1.20
Setting the RECORD straight: developing a guideline for the REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely collected Data. Clin Epidemiol (2013) 1.19
Fish, human health and marine ecosystem health: policies in collision. Int J Epidemiol (2008) 1.18
Optimising the use of electronic health records to estimate the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis in primary care: what information is hidden in free text? BMC Med Res Methodol (2013) 1.16
Self-rated health trajectories in the United States and the United Kingdom: a comparative study. Am J Public Health (2007) 1.15
Isotope ratios of H, C, and O in CO2 and H2O of the martian atmosphere. Science (2013) 1.15
Prediction of depression in European general practice attendees: the PREDICT study. BMC Public Health (2006) 1.15
Cholecystokinin regulates expression of Y2 receptors in vagal afferent neurons serving the stomach. J Neurosci (2008) 1.14
Cardiovascular risk and diabetes. Are the methods of risk prediction satisfactory? Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil (2004) 1.14
Trends in depression and antidepressant prescribing in children and adolescents: a cohort study in The Health Improvement Network (THIN). PLoS One (2012) 1.14
Doctors' stress responses and poor communication performance in simulated bad-news consultations. Acad Med (2009) 1.13
The effect of control at home on CHD events in the Whitehall II study: Gender differences in psychosocial domestic pathways to social inequalities in CHD. Soc Sci Med (2004) 1.11
Antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy in primary care: a UK population based study. PLoS One (2012) 1.11
Prescribing trends in bipolar disorder: cohort study in the United Kingdom THIN primary care database 1995-2009. PLoS One (2011) 1.10
Prevalence of conventional and lupus-specific risk factors for cardiovascular disease in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: A case-control study. Arthritis Rheum (2006) 1.09
Association of genetic polymorphisms with risk of renal injury after coronary bypass graft surgery. Am J Kidney Dis (2005) 1.08
Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass (OPCAB) surgery reduces risk-stratified morbidity and mortality: a United Kingdom Multi-Center Comparative Analysis of Early Clinical Outcome. Circulation (2003) 1.07
Understanding adversity and resilience at older ages. Sociol Health Illn (2008) 1.05
Cardiac surgery risk modeling for mortality: a review of current practice and suggestions for improvement. Ann Thorac Surg (2004) 1.05
Reporting standards: Rigid guidelines may restrict research. Nature (2012) 1.04
Social engagement and the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality: results of a prospective population-based study of older men. Ann Epidemiol (2008) 1.03
Optimising use of electronic health records to describe the presentation of rheumatoid arthritis in primary care: a strategy for developing code lists. PLoS One (2013) 1.03
Apolipoprotein E genotype, cardiovascular biomarkers and risk of stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis of 14,015 stroke cases and pooled analysis of primary biomarker data from up to 60,883 individuals. Int J Epidemiol (2013) 1.03
What influences diet in early old age? Prospective and cross-sectional analyses of the Boyd Orr cohort. Eur J Public Health (2005) 1.02
Population genomics of cardiometabolic traits: design of the University College London-London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine-Edinburgh-Bristol (UCLEB) Consortium. PLoS One (2013) 1.02
Socio-economic position has no effect on improvement in health-related quality of life and patient satisfaction in total hip and knee replacement: a cohort study. PLoS One (2013) 1.01
Evaluation of two-fold fully conditional specification multiple imputation for longitudinal electronic health record data. Stat Med (2014) 1.00
Women's health in mid-life: life course social roles and agency as quality. Soc Sci Med (2006) 1.00
Functional limitation in long standing illness and quality of life: evidence from a national survey. BMJ (2005) 1.00
Isoform diversity and regulation in peripheral and central neurons revealed through RNA-Seq. PLoS One (2012) 1.00
Do labour market status transitions predict changes in psychological well-being? J Epidemiol Community Health (2013) 1.00
High rates of ischaemic heart disease in Scotland are not explained by conventional risk factors. J Epidemiol Community Health (2005) 0.99
Maternal employment and child socio-emotional behaviour in the UK: longitudinal evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. J Epidemiol Community Health (2011) 0.99
Mortality following unemployment during an economic downturn: Swedish register-based cohort study. BMJ Open (2013) 0.98
Primary care spirometry: test quality and the feasibility and usefulness of specialist reporting. Br J Gen Pract (2007) 0.98
Proximal predictors of change in quality of life at older ages. J Epidemiol Community Health (2010) 0.97
Quality of life among older people with poor functioning. The influence of perceived control over life. Age Ageing (2007) 0.97
Trends in longer-term survival following an acute myocardial infarction and prescribing of evidenced-based medications in primary care in the UK from 1991: a longitudinal population-based study. J Epidemiol Community Health (2010) 0.96
Elevated risk of high blood pressure: climate and the inverse housing law. Int J Epidemiol (2002) 0.96