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Alan D Lopez

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1 Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012 56.72
2 A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012 50.94
3 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
4 Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5. Lancet 2010 33.69
5 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
6 Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of disease. Lancet 2002 24.47
7 Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet 2012 17.62
8 Counting the dead and what they died from: an assessment of the global status of cause of death data. Bull World Health Organ 2005 15.50
9 Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on maternal and child mortality: an updated systematic analysis. Lancet 2011 14.16
10 Neonatal, postneonatal, childhood, and under-5 mortality for 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4. Lancet 2010 12.28
11 Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012 11.32
12 Estimates of global mortality attributable to smoking in 2000. Lancet 2003 10.52
13 Estimation of potential global pandemic influenza mortality on the basis of vital registry data from the 1918-20 pandemic: a quantitative analysis. Lancet 2006 9.85
14 GBD 2010: design, definitions, and metrics. Lancet 2012 8.64
15 Healthy life expectancy for 187 countries, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012 8.22
16 Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. Lancet 2015 7.99
17 50-year trends in smoking-related mortality in the United States. N Engl J Med 2013 7.80
18 Breast and cervical cancer in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet 2011 7.71
19 Rapid health transition in China, 1990-2010: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2013 7.70
20 Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012 7.62
21 Can we achieve Millennium Development Goal 4? New analysis of country trends and forecasts of under-5 mortality to 2015. Lancet 2007 6.72
22 Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factors. Lancet 2005 6.63
23 Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition. Lancet 2015 6.13
24 UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2013 6.11
25 Measuring the global burden of disease. N Engl J Med 2013 5.84
26 Social inequalities in male mortality, and in male mortality from smoking: indirect estimation from national death rates in England and Wales, Poland, and North America. Lancet 2006 5.70
27 Civil registration systems and vital statistics: successes and missed opportunities. Lancet 2007 5.67
28 Estimates of global and regional potential health gains from reducing multiple major risk factors. Lancet 2003 5.26
29 Measuring the burden of neglected tropical diseases: the global burden of disease framework. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2007 4.87
30 Rethinking the "diseases of affluence" paradigm: global patterns of nutritional risks in relation to economic development. PLoS Med 2005 4.64
31 Monitoring global health: time for new solutions. BMJ 2004 4.39
32 Validation of the symptom pattern method for analyzing verbal autopsy data. PLoS Med 2007 4.35
33 Validation of verbal autopsy procedures for adult deaths in China. Int J Epidemiol 2005 4.20
34 Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years. N Engl J Med 2017 3.90
35 Worldwide mortality in men and women aged 15-59 years from 1970 to 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet 2010 3.89
36 Validity of verbal autopsy procedures for determining cause of death in Tanzania. Trop Med Int Health 2006 3.62
37 Burden of disease and injury in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: the Indigenous health gap. Int J Epidemiol 2008 3.61
38 Setting international standards for verbal autopsy. Bull World Health Organ 2007 3.59
39 Role of smoking in global and regional cardiovascular mortality. Circulation 2005 3.57
40 Statistical modeling and projections of lung cancer mortality in 4 industrialized countries. Int J Cancer 2005 3.53
41 Adult mortality: time for a reappraisal. Int J Epidemiol 2004 3.41
42 Mortality registration and surveillance in China: History, current situation and challenges. Popul Health Metr 2005 3.31
43 Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics. Bull World Health Organ 2005 3.30
44 The way forward. Lancet 2007 3.28
45 Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: II. Results for the global burden of disease 2000. BMC Cancer 2002 3.26
46 Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets. Popul Health Metr 2011 3.21
47 Modeling causes of death: an integrated approach using CODEm. Popul Health Metr 2012 3.12
48 Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies. Popul Health Metr 2011 3.10
49 Stages of the cigarette epidemic on entering its second century. Tob Control 2012 2.98
50 Mortality in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1964-2004. Bull World Health Organ 2007 2.93
51 Validation of cause-of-death statistics in urban China. Int J Epidemiol 2007 2.89
52 Distribution of major health risks: findings from the Global Burden of Disease study. PLoS Med 2004 2.84
53 Comparative quantification of health risks conceptual framework and methodological issues. Popul Health Metr 2003 2.80
54 Interim measures for meeting needs for health sector data: births, deaths, and causes of death. Lancet 2007 2.71
55 Global burden of disease 2005: call for collaborators. Lancet 2007 2.64
56 Burden of disease and injury in Australia in the new millennium: measuring health loss from diseases, injuries and risk factors. Med J Aust 2008 2.63
57 Role of smoking in global and regional cancer epidemiology: current patterns and data needs. Int J Cancer 2005 2.62
58 Performance of physician-certified verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards. Popul Health Metr 2011 2.62
59 What can we conclude from death registration? Improved methods for evaluating completeness. PLoS Med 2010 2.61
60 Using verbal autopsy to measure causes of death: the comparative performance of existing methods. BMC Med 2014 2.39
61 Core verbal autopsy procedures with comparative validation results from two countries. PLoS Med 2006 2.36
62 Measuring adult mortality using sibling survival: a new analytical method and new results for 44 countries, 1974-2006. PLoS Med 2010 2.32
63 Reductions in child mortality levels and inequalities in Thailand: analysis of two censuses. Lancet 2007 2.30
64 Epidemiologic transition interrupted: a reassessment of mortality trends in Thailand, 1980-2000. Int J Epidemiol 2006 2.23
65 Design options for sample-based mortality surveillance. Int J Epidemiol 2005 2.15
66 Measuring under-five mortality: validation of new low-cost methods. PLoS Med 2010 2.14
67 Performance of InterVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards. Popul Health Metr 2011 2.06
68 Should data from demographic surveillance systems be made more widely available to researchers? PLoS Med 2008 2.06
69 Cause-of-death ascertainment for deaths that occur outside hospitals in Thailand: application of verbal autopsy methods. Popul Health Metr 2010 1.99
70 Improving diet and physical activity: 12 lessons from controlling tobacco smoking. BMJ 2005 1.93
71 Fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular disease and the use of therapies for secondary prevention in a rural region of India. Circulation 2009 1.92
72 Evaluating national cause-of-death statistics: principles and application to the case of China. Bull World Health Organ 2005 1.83
73 GBD 2010: a multi-investigator collaboration for global comparative descriptive epidemiology. Lancet 2012 1.77
74 Estimated causes of death in Thailand, 2005: implications for health policy. Popul Health Metr 2010 1.74
75 Health and health-care systems in southeast Asia: diversity and transitions. Lancet 2011 1.68
76 Liver cirrhosis mortality in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. BMC Med 2014 1.66
77 Impact of misclassification on measures of cardiovascular disease mortality in the Islamic Republic of Iran: a cross-sectional study. Bull World Health Organ 2008 1.66
78 Verifying causes of death in Thailand: rationale and methods for empirical investigation. Popul Health Metr 2010 1.63
79 Cause-specific mortality patterns among hospital deaths in Thailand: validating routine death certification. Popul Health Metr 2010 1.60
80 Simplified Symptom Pattern Method for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards. Popul Health Metr 2011 1.54
81 Estimates of global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980-2015: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet HIV 2016 1.51
82 How many deaths are attributable to smoking in the United States? Comparison of methods for estimating smoking-attributable mortality when smoking prevalence changes. Prev Med 2011 1.47
83 Verbal autopsy coding: are multiple coders better than one? Bull World Health Organ 2009 1.45
84 Trends in oral, pharyngeal and oesophageal cancer mortality in Australia: the comparative importance of tobacco, alcohol and other risk factors. Aust N Z J Public Health 2011 1.44
85 Smoking questions on the Australian death notification form: adopting international best practice? Med J Aust 2009 1.40
86 Estimating population cause-specific mortality fractions from in-hospital mortality: validation of a new method. PLoS Med 2007 1.39
87 Equity and geography: the case of child mortality in Papua New Guinea. PLoS One 2012 1.33
88 Estimating mortality and causes of death in Turkey: methods, results and policy implications. Eur J Public Health 2007 1.32
89 Production and analysis of health indicators: the role of academia. PLoS Med 2010 1.32
90 Evaluation of the quality of cause of death statistics in rural China using verbal autopsies. J Epidemiol Community Health 2007 1.31
91 Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: I. Application of regional cancer survival model to estimate cancer mortality distribution by site. BMC Cancer 2002 1.31
92 Evaluation of cause-of-death statistics for Brazil, 2002-2004. Int J Epidemiol 2008 1.27
93 Mortality trends in Fiji. Aust N Z J Public Health 2011 1.23
94 Mortality trends and the epidemiological transition in Nauru. Asia Pac J Public Health 2011 1.21
95 Mortality and cause-of-death reporting and analysis systems in seven Pacific Island countries. BMC Public Health 2012 1.13
96 Estimating cause-specific mortality from community- and facility-based data sources in the United Republic of Tanzania: options and implications for mortality burden estimates. Bull World Health Organ 2006 1.11
97 Tobacco smoking and all-cause mortality in a large Australian cohort study: findings from a mature epidemic with current low smoking prevalence. BMC Med 2015 1.09
98 Healthy life expectancy: comparison of OECD countries in 2001. Aust N Z J Public Health 2003 1.08
99 Causes of death in Tonga: quality of certification and implications for statistics. Popul Health Metr 2012 1.07
100 Contemporary patterns of Pacific Island mortality. Int J Epidemiol 2004 1.05
101 Evaluating the quality of national mortality statistics from civil registration in South Africa, 1997-2007. PLoS One 2013 1.02
102 Gender differentials in the evolution of cigarette smoking habits in a general European adult population from 1993-2003. BMC Public Health 2006 0.99
103 Assessing the reliability of causes of death reported by the Vital Registration System in Sri Lanka: medical records review in Colombo. HIM J 2013 0.96
104 Mortality trends in Tonga: an assessment based on a synthesis of local data. Popul Health Metr 2012 0.96
105 Characteristics, availability and uses of vital registration and other mortality data sources in post-democracy South Africa. Glob Health Action 2012 0.94
106 Differential mortality in Iran. Popul Health Metr 2007 0.93
107 What do children die from in India today? Lancet 2010 0.92
108 Mortality in Central Java: results from the indonesian mortality registration system strengthening project. BMC Res Notes 2010 0.90
109 Mortality from HIV in the Global Burden of Disease study - authors' reply. Lancet 2013 0.89
110 Global patterns of healthy life expectancy for older women. J Women Aging 2002 0.89
111 Verbal autopsy: advancing science, facilitating application. Popul Health Metr 2011 0.89
112 Targeted approaches for reducing inequities in chronic disease. Med J Aust 2003 0.88
113 Divergent mortality trends by ethnicity in Fiji. Aust N Z J Public Health 2013 0.87
114 Global comparative assessments of life expectancy: the impact of migration with reference to Australia. Bull World Health Organ 2007 0.85
115 Reconstruction of long-term tobacco consumption trends in Australia and their relationship to lung cancer mortality. Cancer Causes Control 2011 0.85
116 Smoking-related mortality in the United States. N Engl J Med 2013 0.85
117 Mortality attributable to smoking in Vietnamese men in 2008. Prev Med 2013 0.84
118 Child survival. Lancet 2003 0.83
119 Comparison of crude and adjusted mortality rates from leading causes of death in northeastern Brazil. Rev Panam Salud Publica 2012 0.79
120 Commentary: improving the mental health and substance use estimates in the Global Burden of Disease study: strengthening the evidence base for public policy. Int J Epidemiol 2014 0.78
121 Epidemiological evidence: improving validity through consistency analysis. Bull World Health Organ 2002 0.78
122 Annual deaths attributable to physical inactivity: whither the missing 2 million? - Authors' reply. Lancet 2013 0.76
123 Correction: Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies. Popul Health Metr 2014 0.75
124 Evidence and information for health policy: a decade of change. Med J Aust 2003 0.75
125 Tobacco consumption and pancreatic cancer mortality: what can we conclude from historical data in Australia? Eur J Public Health 2011 0.75