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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 Insulin resistance and risk of congestive heart failure. JAMA 2005 3.79
3 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
4 Clinical value of the metabolic syndrome for long term prediction of total and cardiovascular mortality: prospective, population based cohort study. BMJ 2006 3.05
5 Total mortality after changes in leisure time physical activity in 50 year old men: 35 year follow-up of population based cohort. BMJ 2009 2.79
6 Detailed physiologic characterization reveals diverse mechanisms for novel genetic Loci regulating glucose and insulin metabolism in humans. Diabetes 2010 2.44
7 Genome-wide association identifies nine common variants associated with fasting proinsulin levels and provides new insights into the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes 2011 2.21
8 Cardiac troponin-I and risk of heart failure: a community-based cohort study. Eur Heart J 2009 1.78
9 Prognostic significance of 24-h ambulatory blood pressure characteristics for cardiovascular morbidity in a population of elderly men. J Hypertens 2004 1.73
10 A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans. PLoS One 2012 1.72
11 Isolated ambulatory hypertension predicts cardiovascular morbidity in elderly men. Circulation 2003 1.62
12 Serum adiponectin is a predictor of coronary heart disease: a population-based 10-year follow-up study in elderly men. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2006 1.61
13 Effectiveness and safety of metformin in 51 675 patients with type 2 diabetes and different levels of renal function: a cohort study from the Swedish National Diabetes Register. BMJ Open 2012 1.51
14 Glycemic control and cardiovascular disease in 7,454 patients with type 1 diabetes: an observational study from the Swedish National Diabetes Register (NDR). Diabetes Care 2010 1.50
15 Total mortality after changes in leisure time physical activity in 50 year old men: 35 year follow-up of population based cohort. Br J Sports Med 2009 1.48
16 Sagittal abdominal diameter is a strong anthropometric marker of insulin resistance and hyperproinsulinemia in obese men. Diabetes Care 2004 1.47
17 Risk prediction of cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes: a risk equation from the Swedish National Diabetes Register. Diabetes Care 2008 1.41
18 Evidence of a causal relationship between adiponectin levels and insulin sensitivity: a Mendelian randomization study. Diabetes 2012 1.27
19 Novel metabolic risk factors for heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 1.21
20 Risk associated with the metabolic syndrome versus the sum of its individual components. Diabetes Care 2006 1.21
21 Circulating levels of phthalate metabolites are associated with prevalent diabetes in the elderly. Diabetes Care 2012 1.20
22 Risk factors for the development of albuminuria and renal impairment in type 2 diabetes--the Swedish National Diabetes Register (NDR). Nephrol Dial Transplant 2010 1.19
23 The combined contribution of albuminuria and glomerular filtration rate to the prediction of cardiovascular mortality in elderly men. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2011 1.10
24 Increase in blood glucose concentration during antihypertensive treatment as a predictor of myocardial infarction: population based cohort study. BMJ 2003 1.07
25 The metabolic syndrome and the risk of prostate cancer under competing risks of death from other causes. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2010 1.02
26 High-sensitive cardiac troponin T and its relations to cardiovascular risk factors, morbidity, and mortality in elderly men. Am Heart J 2013 1.00
27 Systolic blood pressure and risk of cardiovascular diseases in type 2 diabetes: an observational study from the Swedish national diabetes register. J Hypertens 2010 1.00
28 Serum adiponectin in elderly men does not correlate with fracture risk. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2008 0.99
29 Reducing the noise in signal detection of adverse drug reactions by standardizing the background: a pilot study on analyses of proportional reporting ratios-by-therapeutic area. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 2014 0.99
30 Metabolic risk factors for stroke and transient ischemic attacks in middle-aged men: a community-based study with long-term follow-up. Stroke 2006 0.99
31 GDF-15 for prognostication of cardiovascular and cancer morbidity and mortality in men. PLoS One 2013 0.98
32 Vascular risk factors and dementia: 40-year follow-up of a population-based cohort. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 2011 0.97
33 Blood pressure and risk of cardiovascular diseases in type 2 diabetes: further findings from the Swedish National Diabetes Register (NDR-BP II). J Hypertens 2012 0.97
34 Clinical usefulness of different lipid measures for prediction of coronary heart disease in type 2 diabetes: a report from the Swedish National Diabetes Register. Diabetes Care 2011 0.96
35 Comparison of definitions of metabolic syndrome in relation to the risk of developing stroke and coronary heart disease in Finnish and Swedish cohorts. Stroke 2008 0.96
36 Diabetes mellitus and prostate cancer risk; a nationwide case-control study within PCBaSe Sweden. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2013 0.96
37 Adiponectin and risk of congestive heart failure. JAMA 2006 0.96
38 Evaluation of a scoring scheme, including proinsulin and the apolipoprotein B/apolipoprotein A1 ratio, for the risk of acute coronary events in middle-aged men: Uppsala Longitudinal Study of Adult Men (ULSAM). Am Heart J 2004 0.96
39 HbA1C and cancer risk in patients with type 2 diabetes--a nationwide population-based prospective cohort study in Sweden. PLoS One 2012 0.95
40 Serum magnesium status after gastric bypass surgery in obesity. Obes Surg 2008 0.93
41 Adiponectin and cardiac geometry and function in elderly: results from two community-based cohort studies. Eur J Endocrinol 2009 0.90
42 Hyperglycemia and incidence of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke-comparison between fasting and 2-hour glucose criteria. Stroke 2009 0.90
43 Effect of tight control of HbA1c and blood pressure on cardiovascular diseases in type 2 diabetes: an observational study from the Swedish National Diabetes Register (NDR). Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2009 0.90
44 Birth weight is not associated with risk of fracture: results from two Swedish cohort studies. J Bone Miner Res 2014 0.88
45 A two-year clinical lifestyle intervention program for weight loss in obesity. Food Nutr Res 2008 0.88
46 Blood lipids in 75,048 type 2 diabetic patients: a population-based survey from the Swedish National diabetes register. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 2011 0.86
47 Hyperglycemia and stroke mortality: comparison between fasting and 2-h glucose criteria. Diabetes Care 2008 0.85
48 Smoking as an independent risk factor for myocardial infarction or stroke in type 2 diabetes: a report from the Swedish National Diabetes Register. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 2009 0.85
49 Serum glucose and fructosamine in relation to risk of cancer. PLoS One 2013 0.85
50 Albuminuria and renal function as predictors of cardiovascular events and mortality in a general population of patients with type 2 diabetes: a nationwide observational study from the Swedish National Diabetes Register. Diab Vasc Dis Res 2013 0.85
51 Niemann-Pick C1 modulates hepatic triglyceride metabolism and its genetic variation contributes to serum triglyceride levels. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2010 0.84
52 Serum fatty acid composition and insulin resistance are independently associated with liver fat markers in elderly men. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2010 0.84
53 Persistent ischaemic ECG abnormalities on repeated ECG examination have important prognostic value for cardiovascular disease beyond established risk factors: a population-based study in middle-aged men with up to 32 years of follow-up. Heart 2007 0.84
54 Dietary patterns and prostate cancer risk: report from the population based ULSAM cohort study of Swedish men. Nutr Cancer 2013 0.84
55 Circulating levels of perfluoroalkyl substances and prevalent diabetes in the elderly. Diabetologia 2013 0.83
56 Serum levels of selenium and smoking habits at age 50 influence long term prostate cancer risk; a 34 year ULSAM follow-up. BMC Cancer 2011 0.83
57 The impact of dyslipidaemia on cardiovascular mortality in individuals without a prior history of diabetes in the DECODE Study. Atherosclerosis 2009 0.82
58 Cardiovascular risk factors for stable angina pectoris versus unheralded myocardial infarction. Am Heart J 2004 0.82
59 Aspirin treatment and risk of first incident cardiovascular diseases in patients with type 2 diabetes: an observational study from the Swedish National Diabetes Register. BMJ Open 2013 0.81
60 Maximum likelihood estimation of correction for dilution bias in simple linear regression using replicates from subjects with extreme first measurements. Stat Med 2008 0.81
61 Alterations in proinsulin and insulin dynamics, HDL Cholesterol and ALT after gastric bypass surgery. A 42-months follow-up study. Obes Surg 2009 0.80
62 Cytokine-mediated inflammation is independently associated with insulin sensitivity measured by the euglycemic insulin clamp in a community-based cohort of elderly men. Int J Clin Exp Med 2011 0.80
63 Correction for regression dilution bias using replicates from subjects with extreme first measurements. Stat Med 2007 0.80
64 Different methods to present the effect of blood pressure on cardiovascular diseases by Cox regression. J Hypertens 2012 0.79
65 Platelet counts and liver enzymes after bariatric surgery. J Obes 2013 0.78
66 Bileopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch lowers both early and late phases of glucose, insulin and proinsulin responses after meal. Obes Surg 2010 0.78
67 [Connections between risk factors and complications in diabetes. A report after 13 years with the National Diabetes Registry (NDR)]. Lakartidningen 2009 0.78
68 Plasma proteome changes in subjects with Type 2 diabetes mellitus with a low or high early insulin response. Clin Sci (Lond) 2008 0.78
69 Early insulin response and insulin sensitivity are equally important as predictors of glucose tolerance after correction for measurement errors. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2009 0.77
70 Changes in erythrocyte sedimentation rate, white blood cell count, liver enzymes, and magnesium after gastric bypass surgery. J Obes 2011 0.77
71 Associations of serum adiponectin with skeletal muscle morphology and insulin sensitivity. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2008 0.76
72 Seasonal variations of insulin sensitivity from a euglycemic insulin clamp in elderly men. Ups J Med Sci 2011 0.75
73 Impact of follow-up time and re-measurement of the electrocardiogram and conventional cardiovascular risk factors on their predictive value for myocardial infarction. J Intern Med 2006 0.75
74 Age and follow-up time affect the prognostic value of the ECG and conventional cardiovascular risk factors for stroke in adult men. J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 0.75
75 [Risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Results from the Swedish national diabetes register compared with international studies]. Lakartidningen 2013 0.75
76 Seemingly healthy 71-year-old men with minor elevations of cardiac troponin I and at risk of premature death in CVD have elevated levels of NT-proBNP: report from the ULSAM study. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 2009 0.75
77 Erratum. Risks of Psychiatric Disorders and Suicide Attempts in Children and Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes: A Population-Based Cohort Study. Diabetes Care 2015;38:453-459. Diabetes Care 2016 0.75