Published in Econ Hum Biol on June 28, 2009
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Biodemography of exceptional longevity: early-life and mid-life predictors of human longevity. Biodemography Soc Biol (2012) 0.96
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Childhood height and body mass index were associated with risk of adult thyroid cancer in a large cohort study. Cancer Res (2013) 0.94
Cardiovascular disease risk factors in relation to suicide mortality in Asia: prospective cohort study of over one million Korean men and women. Eur Heart J (2011) 0.94
Trends in the association between height and socioeconomic indicators in France, 1970-2003. Econ Hum Biol (2010) 0.92
Body size in early life and breast cancer risk in African American and European American women. Cancer Causes Control (2013) 0.92
Social inequalities in height: persisting differences today depend upon height of the parents. PLoS One (2012) 0.90
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Recent advances in understanding the long-term sequelae of childhood infectious diarrhea. Curr Infect Dis Rep (2014) 0.87
Association between adult height, genetic susceptibility and risk of glioma. Int J Epidemiol (2012) 0.86
Modelling childhood growth using fractional polynomials and linear splines. Ann Nutr Metab (2014) 0.85
Body mass index and height from infancy to adulthood and carotid intima-media thickness at 60 to 64 years in the 1946 British Birth Cohort Study. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2014) 0.84
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Height loss and future coronary heart disease in London: the Whitehall II study. J Epidemiol Community Health (2010) 0.82
Effects of prenatal care on child health at age 5. Matern Child Health J (2013) 0.81
Socio-economic status and z-score standardized height-for-age of U.S.-born children (ages 2-6). Econ Hum Biol (2011) 0.80
Parental height in relation to offspring coronary heart disease: examining transgenerational influences on health using the west of Scotland Midspan Family Study. Int J Epidemiol (2012) 0.80
Height, socioeconomic and subjective well-being factors among U.S. women, ages 49-79. PLoS One (2014) 0.79
Anthropometry and head and neck cancer:a pooled analysis of cohort data. Int J Epidemiol (2015) 0.79
Physical stature and method-specific attempted suicide: cohort study of one million men. Psychiatry Res (2010) 0.78
Adult height, nutrition, and population health. Nutr Rev (2016) 0.78
The associations of month of birth with body mass index, waist circumference, and leg length: findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank of 0.5 million adults. J Epidemiol (2015) 0.78
Why did children grow so well at hard times? The ultimate importance of pathogen control during puberty. Evol Med Public Health (2015) 0.78
Increased Cardiac Workload in the Upright Posture in Men: Noninvasive Hemodynamics in Men Versus Women. J Am Heart Assoc (2016) 0.76
Gene × environment interaction by a longitudinal epigenome-wide association study (LEWAS) overcomes limitations of genome-wide association study (GWAS). Epigenomics (2012) 0.76
Elevated rates of atypical handedness in paedophilia: theory and implications. Laterality (2014) 0.76
Association of height and pubertal timing with lipoprotein subclass profile: exploring the role of genetic and environmental effects. Am J Hum Biol (2013) 0.76
Height as an independent anthropomorphic risk factor for colorectal cancer. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol (2014) 0.76
Effects of financial support on treatment of adolescents with growth hormone deficiency: a retrospective study in Japan. BMC Health Serv Res (2016) 0.75
Associations between Psychological Problems and Quality of Life in Pediatric Short Stature from Patients' and Parents' Perspectives. PLoS One (2016) 0.75
Brief communication: prenatal and early postnatal stress exposure influences long bone length in adult rat offspring. Am J Phys Anthropol (2012) 0.75
Analysis of the height dependence of site-specific cancer risk in relation to organ mass. Ann Transl Med (2016) 0.75
The association between adult attained height and sitting height with mortality in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). PLoS One (2017) 0.75
Association of Lower Socioeconomic Position in Pregnancy with Lower Diurnal Cortisol Production and Lower Birthweight in Male Infants. Clin Ther (2015) 0.75
Adult bone strength of children from single-parent families: the Midlife in the United States Study. Osteoporos Int (2014) 0.75
A prospective study of height and body mass index in childhood, birth weight, and risk of adult glioma over 40 years of follow-up. Am J Epidemiol (2014) 0.75
Undertaking cancer research in international settings: report from the american society for preventive oncology special interest group on international issues in cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev (2013) 0.75
Height and lung cancer risk: A meta-analysis of observational studies. PLoS One (2017) 0.75
Body height and immune efficacy: testing body stature as a signal of biological quality. Proc Biol Sci (2017) 0.75
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
Intensive blood glucose control and vascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes. N Engl J Med (2008) 38.76
A common variant in the FTO gene is associated with body mass index and predisposes to childhood and adult obesity. Science (2007) 37.88
Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2012) 26.95
Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index. Nat Genet (2010) 23.08
Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation. Nat Genet (2008) 22.35
Association of estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in general population cohorts: a collaborative meta-analysis. Lancet (2010) 18.36
New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk. Nat Genet (2010) 17.89
Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity. Nat Genet (2008) 15.94
Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. Nature (2011) 13.25
Rapid blood-pressure lowering in patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage. N Engl J Med (2013) 11.10
Separate and combined associations of body-mass index and abdominal adiposity with cardiovascular disease: collaborative analysis of 58 prospective studies. Lancet (2011) 9.07
Severe hypoglycemia and risks of vascular events and death. N Engl J Med (2010) 8.54
Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution. Nat Genet (2010) 7.94
Association of socioeconomic position with health behaviors and mortality. JAMA (2010) 7.64
Mapping cis- and trans-regulatory effects across multiple tissues in twins. Nat Genet (2012) 6.97
Excess risk of fatal coronary heart disease associated with diabetes in men and women: meta-analysis of 37 prospective cohort studies. BMJ (2005) 6.83
Birth weight and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review. JAMA (2008) 6.73
Genetic variation in GIPR influences the glucose and insulin responses to an oral glucose challenge. Nat Genet (2010) 6.66
C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, and cardiovascular disease prediction. N Engl J Med (2012) 6.39
Comparison of risk prediction using the CKD-EPI equation and the MDRD study equation for estimated glomerular filtration rate. JAMA (2012) 6.26
Blood pressure-lowering treatment based on cardiovascular risk: a meta-analysis of individual patient data. Lancet (2014) 6.23
UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet (2013) 6.11
Lower estimated GFR and higher albuminuria are associated with adverse kidney outcomes. A collaborative meta-analysis of general and high-risk population cohorts. Kidney Int (2011) 6.01
Lower estimated glomerular filtration rate and higher albuminuria are associated with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. A collaborative meta-analysis of high-risk population cohorts. Kidney Int (2011) 5.47
Effect of infant feeding on the risk of obesity across the life course: a quantitative review of published evidence. Pediatrics (2005) 5.47
Cigarette smoking as a risk factor for coronary heart disease in women compared with men: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies. Lancet (2011) 5.33
Patterns of cis regulatory variation in diverse human populations. PLoS Genet (2012) 5.28
Timing of onset of cognitive decline: results from Whitehall II prospective cohort study. BMJ (2012) 5.26
Lower estimated glomerular filtration rate and higher albuminuria are associated with mortality and end-stage renal disease. A collaborative meta-analysis of kidney disease population cohorts. Kidney Int (2011) 5.25
Gender-specific associations of short sleep duration with prevalent and incident hypertension: the Whitehall II Study. Hypertension (2007) 5.20
Associations of kidney disease measures with mortality and end-stage renal disease in individuals with and without diabetes: a meta-analysis. Lancet (2012) 5.10
Indices of abdominal obesity are better discriminators of cardiovascular risk factors than BMI: a meta-analysis. J Clin Epidemiol (2008) 5.05
The interleukin-6 receptor as a target for prevention of coronary heart disease: a mendelian randomisation analysis. Lancet (2012) 4.87
Associations of kidney disease measures with mortality and end-stage renal disease in individuals with and without hypertension: a meta-analysis. Lancet (2012) 4.75
Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways. Nat Genet (2012) 4.73
Prostate-cancer mortality in the USA and UK in 1975-2004: an ecological study. Lancet Oncol (2008) 4.72
Safety and efficacy of dalcetrapib on atherosclerotic disease using novel non-invasive multimodality imaging (dal-PLAQUE): a randomised clinical trial. Lancet (2011) 4.67
Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 82 studies. Lancet (2012) 4.63
Is income inequality a determinant of population health? Part 1. A systematic review. Milbank Q (2004) 4.51
Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents. Lancet (2016) 4.49
Patterns of hospital transfer for self-poisoned patients in rural Sri Lanka: implications for estimating the incidence of self-poisoning in the developing world. Bull World Health Organ (2006) 4.47
Jumping the gun: the problematic discourse on socioeconomic status and cardiovascular health in India. Int J Epidemiol (2013) 4.47
Albuminuria and kidney function independently predict cardiovascular and renal outcomes in diabetes. J Am Soc Nephrol (2009) 4.43
A genome-wide approach accounting for body mass index identifies genetic variants influencing fasting glycemic traits and insulin resistance. Nat Genet (2012) 4.37
Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in China: data from the China National Nutrition and Health Survey 2002. Circulation (2008) 4.29
Increase in state suicide rates in the USA during economic recession. Lancet (2012) 4.28
Using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions: new Medical Research Council guidance. J Epidemiol Community Health (2012) 4.26
A prospective study of change in sleep duration: associations with mortality in the Whitehall II cohort. Sleep (2007) 4.25
A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology. Annu Rev Public Health (2005) 4.17
Association of maternal weight gain in pregnancy with offspring obesity and metabolic and vascular traits in childhood. Circulation (2010) 4.12
Genome-wide association study identifies five loci associated with lung function. Nat Genet (2009) 4.10
Suicide by intentional ingestion of pesticides: a continuing tragedy in developing countries. Int J Epidemiol (2003) 4.01
Association of overweight with increased risk of coronary heart disease partly independent of blood pressure and cholesterol levels: a meta-analysis of 21 cohort studies including more than 300 000 persons. Arch Intern Med (2007) 3.97
Subgroup analyses in randomized trials: risks of subgroup-specific analyses; power and sample size for the interaction test. J Clin Epidemiol (2004) 3.93
Use of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol gene score to distinguish patients with polygenic and monogenic familial hypercholesterolaemia: a case-control study. Lancet (2013) 3.87
Use of accelerometers in a large field-based study of children: protocols, design issues, and effects on precision. J Phys Act Health (2008) 3.81
Effects of blood pressure reduction in mild hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med (2014) 3.81
Common variation in the FTO gene alters diabetes-related metabolic traits to the extent expected given its effect on BMI. Diabetes (2008) 3.76
Systematic review of the influence of childhood socioeconomic circumstances on risk for cardiovascular disease in adulthood. Ann Epidemiol (2005) 3.70
NHS waiting lists and evidence of national or local failure: analysis of health service data. BMJ (2003) 3.60
Work stress and coronary heart disease: what are the mechanisms? Eur Heart J (2008) 3.56
Sickness absence as a global measure of health: evidence from mortality in the Whitehall II prospective cohort study. BMJ (2003) 3.54
Bidirectional association between depression and metabolic syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies. Diabetes Care (2012) 3.53
Imputations of missing values in practice: results from imputations of serum cholesterol in 28 cohort studies. Am J Epidemiol (2004) 3.52
Variations in the G6PC2/ABCB11 genomic region are associated with fasting glucose levels. J Clin Invest (2008) 3.51
Effects of different blood pressure-lowering regimens on major cardiovascular events in individuals with and without diabetes mellitus: results of prospectively designed overviews of randomized trials. Arch Intern Med (2005) 3.44
Metabolically healthy obesity and risk of mortality: does the definition of metabolic health matter? Diabetes Care (2013) 3.43
Intensive glucose control improves kidney outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes. Kidney Int (2013) 3.42
Thirty new loci for age at menarche identified by a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies. Nat Genet (2010) 3.37
Poverty, child undernutrition and morbidity: new evidence from India. Bull World Health Organ (2005) 3.30
Secular trends in mortality by stroke subtype in the 20th century: a retrospective analysis. Lancet (2002) 3.29
A road map for efficient and reliable human genome epidemiology. Nat Genet (2006) 3.21
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
Obesity and risk of colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis of 31 studies with 70,000 events. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev (2007) 3.16
Objectively measured physical activity and fat mass in a large cohort of children. PLoS Med (2007) 3.14
Correlates of short and long sleep duration: a cross-cultural comparison between the United Kingdom and the United States: the Whitehall II Study and the Western New York Health Study. Am J Epidemiol (2008) 3.11
Genetic variation in LIN28B is associated with the timing of puberty. Nat Genet (2009) 3.09
Antidepressant treatment and the risk of fatal and non-fatal self harm in first episode depression: nested case-control study. BMJ (2005) 3.09
Influence of individual and combined health behaviors on total and cause-specific mortality in men and women: the United Kingdom health and lifestyle survey. Arch Intern Med (2010) 3.08
Sleep duration and mortality: The effect of short or long sleep duration on cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in working men and women. Sleep Med (2002) 3.06
Risk prediction models: II. External validation, model updating, and impact assessment. Heart (2012) 3.05
Genome-wide association and large-scale follow up identifies 16 new loci influencing lung function. Nat Genet (2011) 3.03
Effects of blood pressure lowering with perindopril and indapamide therapy on dementia and cognitive decline in patients with cerebrovascular disease. Arch Intern Med (2003) 3.02
Admissions for myocardial infarction and World Cup football: database survey. BMJ (2002) 2.99
Effects of blood pressure lowering on cerebral white matter hyperintensities in patients with stroke: the PROGRESS (Perindopril Protection Against Recurrent Stroke Study) Magnetic Resonance Imaging Substudy. Circulation (2005) 2.97