George D Thurston

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Top papers

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1 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
2 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
3 Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality, and long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution. JAMA 2002 28.72
4 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
5 Cardiovascular mortality and long-term exposure to particulate air pollution: epidemiological evidence of general pathophysiological pathways of disease. Circulation 2003 12.78
6 The state of US health, 1990-2010: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors. JAMA 2013 10.43
7 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
8 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
9 Exposure assessment for estimation of the global burden of disease attributable to outdoor air pollution. Environ Sci Technol 2012 4.44
10 PM source apportionment and health effects: 1. Intercomparison of source apportionment results. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 2006 2.07
11 Climate change. A global threat to cardiopulmonary health. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2014 2.05
12 PM source apportionment and health effects. 3. Investigation of inter-method variations in associations between estimated source contributions of PM2.5 and daily mortality in Phoenix, AZ. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 2005 2.02
13 The role of air pollution in asthma and other pediatric morbidities. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2005 2.02
14 PM source apportionment and health effects: 2. An investigation of intermethod variability in associations between source-apportioned fine particle mass and daily mortality in Washington, DC. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 2005 1.92
15 Characterization of PM2.5, gaseous pollutants, and meteorological interactions in the context of time-series health effects models. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 2007 1.65
16 Air pollution as an underappreciated cause of asthma symptoms. JAMA 2003 1.59
17 Personal exposures to traffic-related air pollution and acute respiratory health among Bronx schoolchildren with asthma. Environ Health Perspect 2011 1.56
18 Distributed lag analyses of daily hospital admissions and source-apportioned fine particle air pollution. Environ Health Perspect 2010 1.36
19 Contribution of respiratory disease to nonrespiratory mortality associations with air pollution. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2003 1.18
20 Personal exposures to traffic-related particle pollution among children with asthma in the South Bronx, NY. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 2009 1.12
21 Ancillary human health benefits of improved air quality resulting from climate change mitigation. Environ Health 2008 1.06
22 Monitor-to-monitor temporal correlation of air pollution in the contiguous US. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 2005 0.98
23 Comparing the Health Effects of Ambient Particulate Matter Estimated Using Ground-Based versus Remote Sensing Exposure Estimates. Environ Health Perspect 2016 0.97
24 American Thoracic Society member survey on climate change and health. Ann Am Thorac Soc 2015 0.95
25 Panel discussion review: session two--interpretation of observed associations between multiple ambient air pollutants and health effects in epidemiologic analyses. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 2007 0.87
26 Particulate air pollution and carotid artery stenosis. J Am Coll Cardiol 2015 0.81
27 Ambient air pollution and brain cancer mortality. Cancer Causes Control 2009 0.80
28 Black carbon and particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations in New York City's subway stations. Environ Sci Technol 2014 0.76
29 Hospital admissions and fine particulate air pollution. JAMA 2006 0.75
30 Reply: the largest problem with climate change policy is not a future event. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2014 0.75
31 Particulate matter and the environmental protection agency: setting the right standard. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2012 0.75