Mika Kivimaki

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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 Association of socioeconomic position with health behaviors and mortality. JAMA 2010 7.64
4 Genetic variation in GIPR influences the glucose and insulin responses to an oral glucose challenge. Nat Genet 2010 6.66
5 Timing of onset of cognitive decline: results from Whitehall II prospective cohort study. BMJ 2012 5.26
6 The interleukin-6 receptor as a target for prevention of coronary heart disease: a mendelian randomisation analysis. Lancet 2012 4.87
7 Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways. Nat Genet 2012 4.73
8 A genome-wide approach accounting for body mass index identifies genetic variants influencing fasting glycemic traits and insulin resistance. Nat Genet 2012 4.37
9 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
10 Work stress and coronary heart disease: what are the mechanisms? Eur Heart J 2008 3.56
11 Bidirectional association between depression and metabolic syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies. Diabetes Care 2012 3.53
12 Metabolically healthy obesity and risk of mortality: does the definition of metabolic health matter? Diabetes Care 2013 3.43
13 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
14 Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease. Nat Genet 2013 2.92
15 Sex-stratified genome-wide association studies including 270,000 individuals show sexual dimorphism in genetic loci for anthropometric traits. PLoS Genet 2013 2.83
16 Data resource profile: cardiovascular disease research using linked bespoke studies and electronic health records (CALIBER). Int J Epidemiol 2012 2.75
17 Association of diurnal patterns in salivary cortisol with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: findings from the Whitehall II study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2011 2.68
18 Hypertension awareness and psychological distress. Hypertension 2010 2.61
19 Large-scale gene-centric meta-analysis across 39 studies identifies type 2 diabetes loci. Am J Hum Genet 2012 2.53
20 Dietary pattern and depressive symptoms in middle age. Br J Psychiatry 2009 2.28
21 Effect of intensity and type of physical activity on mortality: results from the Whitehall II cohort study. Am J Public Health 2011 2.19
22 Alcohol consumption and cognitive decline in early old age. Neurology 2014 2.18
23 Secretory phospholipase A(2)-IIA and cardiovascular disease: a mendelian randomization study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2013 2.18
24 Meta-analysis of Dense Genecentric Association Studies Reveals Common and Uncommon Variants Associated with Height. Am J Hum Genet 2010 2.15
25 Gene-centric association signals for lipids and apolipoproteins identified via the HumanCVD BeadChip. Am J Hum Genet 2009 2.04
26 Large-scale gene-centric meta-analysis across 32 studies identifies multiple lipid loci. Am J Hum Genet 2012 1.96
27 Height, wealth, and health: an overview with new data from three longitudinal studies. Econ Hum Biol 2009 1.95
28 Low HDL cholesterol is a risk factor for deficit and decline in memory in midlife: the Whitehall II study. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2008 1.88
29 Gender differences in the cross-sectional relationships between sleep duration and markers of inflammation: Whitehall II study. Sleep 2009 1.77
30 Comparative analysis of genome-wide association studies signals for lipids, diabetes, and coronary heart disease: Cardiovascular Biomarker Genetics Collaboration. Eur Heart J 2011 1.73
31 Identification of heart rate-associated loci and their effects on cardiac conduction and rhythm disorders. Nat Genet 2013 1.72
32 Persistent cognitive depressive symptoms are associated with coronary artery calcification. Atherosclerosis 2010 1.72
33 A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans. PLoS One 2012 1.72
34 Life course trajectories of systolic blood pressure using longitudinal data from eight UK cohorts. PLoS Med 2011 1.71
35 Measures of frailty in population-based studies: an overview. BMC Geriatr 2013 1.69
36 Body mass index over the adult life course and cognition in late midlife: the Whitehall II Cohort Study. Am J Clin Nutr 2008 1.65
37 Objectively measured secondhand smoke exposure and risk of cardiovascular disease: what is the mediating role of inflammatory and hemostatic factors? J Am Coll Cardiol 2010 1.60
38 Sleep disturbances and cause-specific mortality: Results from the GAZEL cohort study. Am J Epidemiol 2010 1.57
39 Alternative Healthy Eating Index and mortality over 18 y of follow-up: results from the Whitehall II cohort. Am J Clin Nutr 2011 1.54
40 A genome-wide association study of aging. Neurobiol Aging 2011 1.54
41 A prospective study of positive psychological well-being and coronary heart disease. Health Psychol 2011 1.49
42 A nonlinear relationship of generalized and central obesity with diurnal cortisol secretion in the Whitehall II study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2010 1.46
43 Association between questionnaire- and accelerometer-assessed physical activity: the role of sociodemographic factors. Am J Epidemiol 2014 1.45
44 Blood pressure loci identified with a gene-centric array. Am J Hum Genet 2011 1.44
45 Positive and negative affect and risk of coronary heart disease: Whitehall II prospective cohort study. BMJ 2008 1.42
46 The natural course of healthy obesity over 20 years. J Am Coll Cardiol 2015 1.31
47 Heart health when life is satisfying: evidence from the Whitehall II cohort study. Eur Heart J 2011 1.30
48 Influence of common genetic variation on blood lipid levels, cardiovascular risk, and coronary events in two British prospective cohort studies. Eur Heart J 2012 1.30
49 Health behaviors from early to late midlife as predictors of cognitive function: The Whitehall II study. Am J Epidemiol 2009 1.30
50 Genetic variation in complement factor H and risk of coronary heart disease: eight new studies and a meta-analysis of around 48,000 individuals. Atherosclerosis 2010 1.27
51 Physical activity and inflammatory markers over 10 years: follow-up in men and women from the Whitehall II cohort study. Circulation 2012 1.25
52 Social inequality in walking speed in early old age in the Whitehall II study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2009 1.24
53 Antidepressant medication use and future risk of cardiovascular disease: the Scottish Health Survey. Eur Heart J 2010 1.24
54 Influence of individual and combined healthy behaviours on successful aging. CMAJ 2012 1.24
55 Socioeconomic status, structural and functional measures of social support, and mortality: The British Whitehall II Cohort Study, 1985-2009. Am J Epidemiol 2012 1.21
56 Longitudinal patterns in physical activity and sedentary behaviour from mid-life to early old age: a substudy of the Whitehall II cohort. J Epidemiol Community Health 2012 1.20
57 Separating the mechanism-based and off-target actions of cholesteryl ester transfer protein inhibitors with CETP gene polymorphisms. Circulation 2009 1.20
58 Rising adiposity curbing decline in the incidence of myocardial infarction: 20-year follow-up of British men and women in the Whitehall II cohort. Eur Heart J 2011 1.18
59 The role of conventional risk factors in explaining social inequalities in coronary heart disease: the relative and absolute approaches to risk. Epidemiology 2008 1.16
60 PLA2G7 genotype, lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 activity, and coronary heart disease risk in 10 494 cases and 15 624 controls of European Ancestry. Circulation 2010 1.14
61 Cortisol secretion and fatigue: associations in a community based cohort. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2009 1.14
62 Arterial stiffness, physical function, and functional limitation: the Whitehall II Study. Hypertension 2011 1.13
63 Walking speed and subclinical atherosclerosis in healthy older adults: the Whitehall II study. Heart 2009 1.13
64 Employee control over working times and risk of cause-specific disability pension: the Finnish Public Sector Study. Occup Environ Med 2009 1.10
65 Why does lung function predict mortality? Results from the Whitehall II Cohort Study. Am J Epidemiol 2010 1.10
66 Socioeconomic status moderates the association between carotid intima-media thickness and cognition in midlife: evidence from the Whitehall II study. Atherosclerosis 2007 1.08
67 Overall diet history and reversibility of the metabolic syndrome over 5 years: the Whitehall II prospective cohort study. Diabetes Care 2010 1.08
68 Impact of smoking on cognitive decline in early old age: the Whitehall II cohort study. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2012 1.08
69 Psychological distress as a risk factor for death from cerebrovascular disease. CMAJ 2012 1.06
70 Do psychological factors affect inflammation and incident coronary heart disease: the Whitehall II Study. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2008 1.06
71 Association of walking speed in late midlife with mortality: results from the Whitehall II cohort study. Age (Dordr) 2012 1.04
72 Genetics of cortisol secretion and depressive symptoms: a candidate gene and genome wide association approach. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2011 1.03
73 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
74 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
75 Evaluating the causal relevance of diverse risk markers: horizontal systematic review. BMJ 2009 1.02
76 Does sickness absence due to psychiatric disorder predict cause-specific mortality? A 16-year follow-up of the GAZEL occupational cohort study. Am J Epidemiol 2010 1.01
77 Fasting glucose, diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, and depression: the Vietnam experience study. Biol Psychiatry 2010 1.00
78 The relationship between plasma angiopoietin-like protein 4 levels, angiopoietin-like protein 4 genotype, and coronary heart disease risk. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2010 1.00
79 Four genetic loci influencing electrocardiographic indices of left ventricular hypertrophy. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2011 0.99
80 Risk factors for pancreatic cancer mortality: extended follow-up of the original Whitehall Study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009 0.98
81 Association of lung function with physical, mental and cognitive function in early old age. Age (Dordr) 2010 0.97
82 Genetic variants associated with Von Willebrand factor levels in healthy men and women identified using the HumanCVD BeadChip. Ann Hum Genet 2011 0.96
83 Effect of retirement on alcohol consumption: longitudinal evidence from the French Gazel cohort study. PLoS One 2011 0.96
84 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
85 Walking pace, leisure time physical activity, and resting heart rate in relation to disease-specific mortality in London: 40 years follow-up of the original Whitehall study. An update of our work with professor Jerry N. Morris (1910-2009). Ann Epidemiol 2010 0.94
86 Depressive disorder, coronary heart disease, and stroke: dose-response and reverse causation effects in the Whitehall II cohort study. Eur J Prev Cardiol 2014 0.94
87 Low conscientiousness and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality over 17 years: Whitehall II cohort study. J Psychosom Res 2012 0.93
88 Using sickness absence records to predict future depression in a working population: prospective findings from the GAZEL cohort. Am J Public Health 2009 0.93
89 Combined impact of smoking and heavy alcohol use on cognitive decline in early old age: Whitehall II prospective cohort study. Br J Psychiatry 2013 0.93
90 Trends in the association between height and socioeconomic indicators in France, 1970-2003. Econ Hum Biol 2010 0.92
91 Predictors of sustained organizational commitment among nurses with temporary job contracts. J Nurs Adm 2006 0.92
92 The combined influence of hypertension and common mental disorder on all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality. J Hypertens 2010 0.92
93 Obesity and overweight in relation to mortality in men with and without type 2 diabetes/impaired glucose tolerance: the original Whitehall Study. Diabetes Care 2007 0.92
94 Do socioeconomic factors shape weight and obesity trajectories over the transition from midlife to old age? Results from the French GAZEL cohort study. Am J Clin Nutr 2010 0.92
95 Work characteristics and personal social support as determinants of subjective well-being. PLoS One 2013 0.92
96 Effect of Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 on the association between health behaviors and cognitive function in late midlife. Mol Neurodegener 2010 0.90
97 Metabolic syndrome and onset of depressive symptoms in the elderly: findings from the three-city study. Diabetes Care 2011 0.90
98 Metabolic syndrome over 10 years and cognitive functioning in late midlife: the Whitehall II study. Diabetes Care 2009 0.90
99 Consent to DNA collection in epidemiological studies: findings from the Whitehall II cohort and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Genet Med 2012 0.89
100 A non-exercise testing method for estimating cardiorespiratory fitness: associations with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in a pooled analysis of eight population-based cohorts. Eur Heart J 2012 0.89
101 Do psychological attributes matter for adherence to antihypertensive medication? The Finnish Public Sector Cohort Study. J Hypertens 2008 0.89
102 Does overall diet in midlife predict future aging phenotypes? A cohort study. Am J Med 2013 0.88
103 Metabolic syndrome, its components, and mortality in the elderly. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2010 0.88
104 Dysregulation of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis and physical performance at older ages: an individual participant meta-analysis. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2012 0.88
105 Risk factors for colonic and rectal cancer mortality: evidence from 40 years' follow-up in the Whitehall I study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2011 0.88
106 Adherence to healthy dietary guidelines and future depressive symptoms: evidence for sex differentials in the Whitehall II study. Am J Clin Nutr 2013 0.88
107 Gene-centric analysis identifies variants associated with interleukin-6 levels and shared pathways with other inflammation markers. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2013 0.86
108 No interactions between previously associated 2-hour glucose gene variants and physical activity or BMI on 2-hour glucose levels. Diabetes 2012 0.86
109 Subjective cognitive complaints and mortality: does the type of complaint matter? J Psychiatr Res 2013 0.85
110 Association of hostility with sleep duration and sleep disturbances in an employee population. Int J Behav Med 2008 0.85
111 Comparison of risk factors for fatal stroke and ischemic heart disease: a prospective follow up of the health survey for England. Atherosclerosis 2011 0.85
112 Combined effect of physical activity and leisure time sitting on long-term risk of incident obesity and metabolic risk factor clustering. Diabetologia 2014 0.84
113 Association of maternal and paternal IQ with offspring conduct, emotional, and attention problem scores. Transgenerational evidence from the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2011 0.84
114 Diabetes and raised blood glucose as risk factors for future suicide: cohort study of 1 234 927 Korean men and women. J Epidemiol Community Health 2012 0.83
115 Do different measures of early life socioeconomic circumstances predict adult mortality? Evidence from the British Whitehall II and French GAZEL studies. J Epidemiol Community Health 2010 0.83
116 Meta analysis of candidate gene variants outside the LPA locus with Lp(a) plasma levels in 14,500 participants of six White European cohorts. Atherosclerosis 2011 0.83
117 Taking the tension out of hypertension: a prospective study of psychological well being and hypertension. J Hypertens 2014 0.83
118 Socioeconomic and ethnic differences in use of lipid-lowering drugs after deregulation of simvastatin in the UK: the Whitehall II prospective cohort study. Atherosclerosis 2010 0.83
119 Height loss and future coronary heart disease in London: the Whitehall II study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2010 0.82
120 Metabolic syndrome and disability: findings from the prospective three-city study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2013 0.82
121 Absence of association of a single-nucleotide polymorphism in the TERT-CLPTM1L locus with age-related phenotypes in a large multicohort study: the HALCyon programme. Aging Cell 2011 0.82
122 Cognition and incident coronary heart disease in late midlife: The Whitehall II study. Intelligence 2009 0.82
123 Causal relevance of blood lipid fractions in the development of carotid atherosclerosis: Mendelian randomization analysis. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2012 0.82
124 Effect of Smoking on Blood Pressure and Resting Heart Rate: A Mendelian Randomization Meta-Analysis in the CARTA Consortium. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2015 0.82
125 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
126 Gene-targeted analysis of copy number variants identifies 3 novel associations with coronary heart disease traits. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2012 0.79
127 Hostility and trajectories of body mass index over 19 years: the Whitehall II Study. Am J Epidemiol 2008 0.79
128 Associations between a polymorphism in the pleiotropic GCKR and Age-related phenotypes: the HALCyon programme. PLoS One 2013 0.79
129 Integration of genetics into a systems model of electrocardiographic traits using HumanCVD BeadChip. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2012 0.79
130 Impact of smoking cessation advice on future smoking behavior, morbidity, and mortality: up to 40 years of follow-up of the first randomized controlled trial of a general population sample. Arch Intern Med 2011 0.79
131 Associations between APOE and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol genotypes and cognitive and physical capability: the HALCyon programme. Age (Dordr) 2014 0.78
132 Does working while ill trigger serious coronary events? The Whitehall II study. J Occup Environ Med 2009 0.78
133 Effort-reward imbalance, heart rate, and heart rate variability: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. Int J Behav Med 2007 0.78
134 Novel genetic approach to investigate the role of plasma secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2)-V isoenzyme in coronary heart disease: modified Mendelian randomization analysis using PLA2G5 expression levels. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2014 0.78
135 A genetic instrument for Mendelian randomization of fibrinogen. Eur J Epidemiol 2012 0.78
136 Alcohol consumption and cognitive performance: a Mendelian randomization study. Addiction 2014 0.78
137 The healthy population-high disability paradox. Occup Environ Med 2014 0.77
138 The effect of renin angiotensin system genetic variants in acute pancreatitis. Ann Surg 2015 0.77
139 Association of body mass index and waist circumference with successful aging. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2013 0.77
140 Socioeconomic inequalities in health in 22 European countries. N Engl J Med 2008 0.77
141 Cumulative associations between midlife health behaviors and physical functioning in early old age: a 17-year prospective cohort study. J Am Geriatr Soc 2014 0.76
142 Sleep loss due to worry and future risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality: the Scottish Health Survey. Eur J Prev Cardiol 2011 0.76
143 Association of the apolipoprotein E gene, its promoter polymorphisms and haplotypes with depressive symptoms. The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. Neuropsychobiology 2008 0.76
144 A gene-centric study of common carotid artery remodelling. Atherosclerosis 2012 0.76
145 Limitations to functioning and independent living after the onset of coronary heart disease: what is the role of lifestyle factors and obesity? Eur J Public Health 2011 0.75
146 Trajectories of sleep complaints from early midlife to old age: longitudinal modeling study. Sleep 2012 0.75
147 Correction: The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study. PLoS Genet 2016 0.75
148 Genetic variants influencing biomarkers of nutrition are not associated with cognitive capability in middle-aged and older adults. J Nutr 2013 0.75
149 Correction: Is the Relationship between Common Mental Disorder and Adiposity Bidirectional? Prospective Analyses of a UK General Population-Based Study. PLoS One 2015 0.75
150 Negative aspects of close relationships as risk factors for cognitive aging. Am J Epidemiol 2014 0.75
151 Nutritional privation in utero and adult cardiovascular disease risk: famine studies as natural experiments. Heart 2012 0.75
152 Alternative Healthy Eating Index 2010, Dietary inflammatory index and risk of mortality: Results from the Whitehall II cohort study and meta-analysis of previous DII and mortality studies - CORRIGENDUM. Br J Nutr 2017 0.75
153 Sickness absence trends during and after long-term psychotherapy and antidepressant medication among depressive employees. Psychother Psychosom 2009 0.75
154 Examining the Long-Term Association of Personality With Cause-Specific Mortality in London: Four Decades of Mortality Surveillance in the Original Whitehall Smoking Cessation Trial. Am J Epidemiol 2016 0.75
155 Erratum: Genetic loci associated with heart rate variability and their effects on cardiac disease risk. Nat Commun 2017 0.75
156 Relationship between DRD4 polymorphism and lipid metabolism: what is the role of novelty seeking? Neuropsychobiology 2004 0.75
157 Physical functional health and risk of future cardiovascular disease: the Scottish Health Survey. Arch Intern Med 2011 0.75