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Title |
Journal |
Year |
PubWeight™‹?› |
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1
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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
|
Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data.
|
Lancet
|
2006
|
37.83
|
|
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
|
Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences.
|
Lancet
|
2008
|
26.44
|
|
7
|
National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants.
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
24.73
|
|
8
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National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes prevalence since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 370 country-years and 2·7 million participants.
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
19.21
|
|
9
|
Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
18.02
|
|
10
|
The preventable causes of death in the United States: comparative risk assessment of dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors.
|
PLoS Med
|
2009
|
12.13
|
|
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
|
The state of US health, 1990-2010: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors.
|
JAMA
|
2013
|
10.43
|
|
13
|
Global and regional burden of stroke during 1990-2010: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
|
Lancet
|
2014
|
10.06
|
|
14
|
Eight Americas: investigating mortality disparities across races, counties, and race-counties in the United States.
|
PLoS Med
|
2006
|
8.70
|
|
15
|
GBD 2010: design, definitions, and metrics.
|
Lancet
|
2012
|
8.64
|
|
16
|
Fine-particulate air pollution and life expectancy in the United States.
|
N Engl J Med
|
2009
|
8.36
|
|
17
|
What has made the population of Japan healthy?
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
8.18
|
|
18
|
National, regional, and global trends in systolic blood pressure since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 786 country-years and 5·4 million participants.
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
8.12
|
|
19
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Metabolic mediators of the effects of body-mass index, overweight, and obesity on coronary heart disease and stroke: a pooled analysis of 97 prospective cohorts with 1·8 million participants.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
7.34
|
|
20
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Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factors.
|
Lancet
|
2005
|
6.63
|
|
21
|
Chronic disease prevention: health effects and financial costs of strategies to reduce salt intake and control tobacco use.
|
Lancet
|
2007
|
6.45
|
|
22
|
UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
6.11
|
|
23
|
Global sodium consumption and death from cardiovascular causes.
|
N Engl J Med
|
2014
|
5.83
|
|
24
|
National, regional, and global trends in serum total cholesterol since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 321 country-years and 3·0 million participants.
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
5.26
|
|
25
|
Major risk factors for stillbirth in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
5.13
|
|
26
|
Trends in mild, moderate, and severe stunting and underweight, and progress towards MDG 1 in 141 developing countries: a systematic analysis of population representative data.
|
Lancet
|
2012
|
4.89
|
|
27
|
Measuring the burden of neglected tropical diseases: the global burden of disease framework.
|
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
|
2007
|
4.87
|
|
28
|
Stillbirths: the way forward in high-income countries.
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
4.69
|
|
29
|
Worldwide epidemiology of atrial fibrillation: a Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study.
|
Circulation
|
2013
|
4.60
|
|
30
|
Tobacco smoke, indoor air pollution and tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
|
PLoS Med
|
2007
|
4.51
|
|
31
|
Exposure assessment for estimation of the global burden of disease attributable to outdoor air pollution.
|
Environ Sci Technol
|
2012
|
4.44
|
|
32
|
Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants.
|
Lancet
|
2016
|
4.29
|
|
33
|
Global and regional mortality from ischaemic heart disease and stroke attributable to higher-than-optimum blood glucose concentration: comparative risk assessment.
|
Lancet
|
2006
|
4.26
|
|
34
|
Inequalities in non-communicable diseases and effective responses.
|
Lancet
|
2013
|
4.18
|
|
35
|
National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalences.
|
Popul Health Metr
|
2012
|
4.13
|
|
36
|
Effect of air pollution control on life expectancy in the United States: an analysis of 545 U.S. counties for the period from 2000 to 2007.
|
Epidemiology
|
2013
|
3.93
|
|
37
|
An integrated risk function for estimating the global burden of disease attributable to ambient fine particulate matter exposure.
|
Environ Health Perspect
|
2014
|
3.69
|
|
38
|
Anaemia, prenatal iron use, and risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis.
|
BMJ
|
2013
|
3.67
|
|
39
|
Global, regional, and national consumption levels of dietary fats and oils in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis including 266 country-specific nutrition surveys.
|
BMJ
|
2014
|
3.56
|
|
40
|
The global burden of ischemic heart disease in 1990 and 2010: the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study.
|
Circulation
|
2014
|
2.99
|
|
41
|
Association between tobacco smoking and active tuberculosis in Taiwan: prospective cohort study.
|
Am J Respir Crit Care Med
|
2009
|
2.95
|
|
42
|
Distribution of major health risks: findings from the Global Burden of Disease study.
|
PLoS Med
|
2004
|
2.84
|
|
43
|
Characterizing the epidemiological transition in Mexico: national and subnational burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors.
|
PLoS Med
|
2008
|
2.83
|
|
44
|
Comparative quantification of health risks conceptual framework and methodological issues.
|
Popul Health Metr
|
2003
|
2.80
|
|
45
|
Biomass fuels and respiratory diseases: a review of the evidence.
|
Proc Am Thorac Soc
|
2008
|
2.78
|
|
46
|
Temporal trends in ischemic heart disease mortality in 21 world regions, 1980 to 2010: the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study.
|
Circulation
|
2014
|
2.66
|
|
47
|
Global burden of disease 2005: call for collaborators.
|
Lancet
|
2007
|
2.64
|
|
48
|
Effectiveness of diabetes and hypertension management by rural primary health-care workers (Behvarz workers) in Iran: a nationally representative observational study.
|
Lancet
|
2011
|
2.61
|
|
49
|
Measuring progress on NCDs: one goal and five targets.
|
Lancet
|
2012
|
2.55
|
|
50
|
Improving child survival through environmental and nutritional interventions: the importance of targeting interventions toward the poor.
|
JAMA
|
2007
|
2.41
|
|
51
|
Global, regional and national sodium intakes in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis of 24 h urinary sodium excretion and dietary surveys worldwide.
|
BMJ Open
|
2013
|
2.40
|
|
52
|
Environmental health in China: progress towards clean air and safe water.
|
Lancet
|
2010
|
2.32
|
|
53
|
The global cardiovascular risk transition: associations of four metabolic risk factors with national income, urbanization, and Western diet in 1980 and 2008.
|
Circulation
|
2013
|
2.31
|
|
54
|
The burden of disease and injury in the United States 1996.
|
Popul Health Metr
|
2006
|
2.27
|
|
55
|
Effects of smoking and solid-fuel use on COPD, lung cancer, and tuberculosis in China: a time-based, multiple risk factor, modelling study.
|
Lancet
|
2008
|
2.27
|
|
56
|
Indoor air pollution and blood pressure in adult women living in rural China.
|
Environ Health Perspect
|
2011
|
2.25
|
|
57
|
Understanding the coronary heart disease versus total cardiovascular mortality paradox: a method to enhance the comparability of cardiovascular death statistics in the United States.
|
Circulation
|
2006
|
2.20
|
|
58
|
Mortality and greenhouse gas impacts of biomass and petroleum energy futures in Africa.
|
Science
|
2005
|
2.18
|
|
59
|
Eight Americas: new perspectives on U.S. health disparities.
|
Am J Prev Med
|
2005
|
2.13
|
|
60
|
Health impacts of macroeconomic crises and policies: determinants of variation in childhood malnutrition trends in Cameroon.
|
Int J Epidemiol
|
2006
|
2.02
|
|
61
|
Falling behind: life expectancy in US counties from 2000 to 2007 in an international context.
|
Popul Health Metr
|
2011
|
1.99
|
|
62
|
The age-specific quantitative effects of metabolic risk factors on cardiovascular diseases and diabetes: a pooled analysis.
|
PLoS One
|
2013
|
1.95
|
|
63
|
National and subnational mortality effects of metabolic risk factors and smoking in Iran: a comparative risk assessment.
|
Popul Health Metr
|
2011
|
1.81
|
|
64
|
The promise of prevention: the effects of four preventable risk factors on national life expectancy and life expectancy disparities by race and county in the United States.
|
PLoS Med
|
2010
|
1.78
|
|
65
|
GBD 2010: a multi-investigator collaboration for global comparative descriptive epidemiology.
|
Lancet
|
2012
|
1.77
|
|
66
|
Household and community socioeconomic and environmental determinants of child nutritional status in Cameroon.
|
BMC Public Health
|
2006
|
1.75
|
|
67
|
Associations of suboptimal growth with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in children under five years: a pooled analysis of ten prospective studies.
|
PLoS One
|
2013
|
1.71
|
|
68
|
Adult mortality attributable to preventable risk factors for non-communicable diseases and injuries in Japan: a comparative risk assessment.
|
PLoS Med
|
2012
|
1.70
|
|
69
|
Adhesion of Streptococcus pneumoniae to human airway epithelial cells exposed to urban particulate matter.
|
J Allergy Clin Immunol
|
2011
|
1.60
|
|
70
|
Diabetes prevalence and diagnosis in US states: analysis of health surveys.
|
Popul Health Metr
|
2009
|
1.59
|
|
71
|
Chemical Composition of Fine Particulate Matter and Life Expectancy: In 95 US Counties Between 2002 and 2007.
|
Epidemiology
|
2015
|
1.58
|
|
72
|
Trends and inequalities in cardiovascular disease mortality across 7932 English electoral wards, 1982-2006: Bayesian spatial analysis.
|
Int J Epidemiol
|
2012
|
1.55
|
|
73
|
Improving the comparability of diabetes mortality statistics in the U.S. and Mexico.
|
Diabetes Care
|
2007
|
1.52
|
|
74
|
Mediators of the effect of body mass index on coronary heart disease: decomposing direct and indirect effects.
|
Epidemiology
|
2015
|
1.50
|
|
75
|
Priority setting for health interventions in Mexico's System of Social Protection in Health.
|
Lancet
|
2006
|
1.49
|
|
76
|
Comparative impact assessment of child pneumonia interventions.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2009
|
1.49
|
|
77
|
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
|
|
78
|
The effect of multiple anthropometric deficits on child mortality: meta-analysis of individual data in 10 prospective studies from developing countries.
|
Am J Clin Nutr
|
2013
|
1.45
|
|
79
|
Household and community poverty, biomass use, and air pollution in Accra, Ghana.
|
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
|
2011
|
1.37
|
|
80
|
Assessing the global burden of ischemic heart disease, part 2: analytic methods and estimates of the global epidemiology of ischemic heart disease in 2010.
|
Glob Heart
|
2012
|
1.26
|
|
81
|
Within-neighborhood patterns and sources of particle pollution: mobile monitoring and geographic information system analysis in four communities in Accra, Ghana.
|
Environ Health Perspect
|
2010
|
1.26
|
|
82
|
Setting research priorities for preconception care in low- and middle-income countries: aiming to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity.
|
PLoS Med
|
2013
|
1.26
|
|
83
|
Worldwide risk factors for heart failure: a systematic review and pooled analysis.
|
Int J Cardiol
|
2012
|
1.26
|
|
84
|
Is inequality at the heart of it? Cross-country associations of income inequality with cardiovascular diseases and risk factors.
|
Soc Sci Med
|
2008
|
1.21
|
|
85
|
Acute lower respiratory infections in childhood: opportunities for reducing the global burden through nutritional interventions.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2008
|
1.19
|
|
86
|
Air pollution in Accra neighborhoods: spatial, socioeconomic, and temporal patterns.
|
Environ Sci Technol
|
2010
|
1.17
|
|
87
|
Population health metrics: crucial inputs to the development of evidence for health policy.
|
Popul Health Metr
|
2003
|
1.16
|
|
88
|
Social inequalities and mortality in Europe--results from a large multi-national cohort.
|
PLoS One
|
2012
|
1.16
|
|
89
|
Household concentrations and exposure of children to particulate matter from biomass fuels in The Gambia.
|
Environ Sci Technol
|
2012
|
1.14
|
|
90
|
Geographical, spatial, and temporal distributions of multiple indoor air pollutants in four Chinese provinces.
|
Environ Sci Technol
|
2005
|
1.12
|
|
91
|
Association of secondhand smoke exposure with pediatric invasive bacterial disease and bacterial carriage: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
|
PLoS Med
|
2010
|
1.11
|
|
92
|
Characterizing air pollution in two low-income neighborhoods in Accra, Ghana.
|
Sci Total Environ
|
2008
|
1.08
|
|
93
|
The contributions of risk factor trends to cardiometabolic mortality decline in 26 industrialized countries.
|
Int J Epidemiol
|
2013
|
1.08
|
|
94
|
Exploring the cost-effectiveness of Helicobacter pylori screening to prevent gastric cancer in China in anticipation of clinical trial results.
|
Int J Cancer
|
2009
|
1.06
|
|
95
|
Cost-effectiveness of treatment and endoscopic surveillance of precancerous lesions to prevent gastric cancer.
|
Cancer
|
2010
|
1.01
|
|
96
|
Patterns of household concentrations of multiple indoor air pollutants in China.
|
Environ Sci Technol
|
2005
|
1.00
|
|
97
|
Assessing the Global Burden of Ischemic Heart Disease: Part 1: Methods for a Systematic Review of the Global Epidemiology of Ischemic Heart Disease in 1990 and 2010.
|
Glob Heart
|
2012
|
0.99
|
|
98
|
Contraceptive use, birth spacing, and autonomy: an analysis of the Oportunidades program in rural Mexico.
|
Stud Fam Plann
|
2009
|
0.96
|
|
99
|
Exposure to indoor air pollution from household energy use in rural China: the interactions of technology, behavior, and knowledge in health risk management.
|
Soc Sci Med
|
2006
|
0.96
|
|
100
|
Development of an empirically calibrated model of gastric cancer in two high-risk countries.
|
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev
|
2008
|
0.95
|
|
101
|
Variations in ischemic heart disease burden by age, country, and income: the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2010 study.
|
Glob Heart
|
2014
|
0.95
|
|
102
|
The contribution of leading diseases and risk factors to excess losses of healthy life in Eastern Europe: burden of disease study.
|
BMC Public Health
|
2005
|
0.94
|
|
103
|
The exposure of infants and children to carbon monoxide from biomass fuels in The Gambia: a measurement and modeling study.
|
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol
|
2011
|
0.94
|
|
104
|
Contribution of H. pylori and smoking trends to US incidence of intestinal-type noncardia gastric adenocarcinoma: a microsimulation model.
|
PLoS Med
|
2013
|
0.92
|
|
105
|
[Priority setting for health interventions in Mexico's System of Social Protection in Health].
|
Salud Publica Mex
|
2007
|
0.92
|
|
106
|
The effects of 3 environmental risks on mortality disparities across Mexican communities.
|
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
|
2008
|
0.91
|
|
107
|
A risk-based method for modeling traffic fatalities.
|
Risk Anal
|
2007
|
0.89
|
|
108
|
Effects of Helicobacter pylori infection and smoking on gastric cancer incidence in China: a population-level analysis of trends and projections.
|
Cancer Causes Control
|
2009
|
0.89
|
|
109
|
Impact of Nonoptimal Intakes of Saturated, Polyunsaturated, and Trans Fat on Global Burdens of Coronary Heart Disease.
|
J Am Heart Assoc
|
2016
|
0.86
|
|
110
|
Spatial and temporal patterns of particulate matter sources and pollution in four communities in Accra, Ghana.
|
Sci Total Environ
|
2012
|
0.85
|
|
111
|
Should interventions to reduce respirable pollutants be linked to tuberculosis control programmes?
|
BMJ
|
2004
|
0.84
|
|
112
|
Greenhouse gas implications of household energy technology in Kenya.
|
Environ Sci Technol
|
2003
|
0.84
|
|
113
|
Most colorectal cancer survivors live a large proportion of their remaining life in good health.
|
Cancer Causes Control
|
2012
|
0.83
|
|
114
|
Chemical characterization and source apportionment of household fine particulate matter in rural, peri-urban, and urban West Africa.
|
Environ Sci Technol
|
2014
|
0.82
|
|
115
|
Fine particulate air pollution and life expectancies in the United States: the role of influential observations.
|
J Air Waste Manag Assoc
|
2013
|
0.81
|
|
116
|
Exposure to secondhand smoke and risk of tuberculosis: prospective cohort study.
|
PLoS One
|
2013
|
0.81
|
|
117
|
National cardiovascular prevention should be based on absolute disease risks, not levels of risk factors.
|
Eur J Public Health
|
2009
|
0.79
|
|
118
|
Household air pollution and children's blood pressure.
|
Epidemiology
|
2012
|
0.76
|
|
119
|
"Threshold findings" in an ecological study.
|
Epidemiology
|
2013
|
0.75
|
|
120
|
Health benefits of interventions to reduce greenhouse gases.
|
Lancet
|
2010
|
0.75
|
|
121
|
Correction: Early Childhood Developmental Status in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: National, Regional, and Global Prevalence Estimates Using Predictive Modelling.
|
PLoS Med
|
2017
|
0.75
|
|
122
|
Correction: Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER statement.
|
PLoS Med
|
2016
|
0.75
|
|
123
|
The Authors Respond.
|
Epidemiology
|
2016
|
0.75
|
|
124
|
Placental Pathology Associated with Household Air Pollution in a Cohort of Pregnant Women from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
|
Environ Health Perspect
|
2016
|
0.75
|
|
125
|
Response to letter regarding article, "the global cardiovascular risk transition: associations of four metabolic risk factors with macroeconomic variables in 1980 and 2008".
|
Circulation
|
2013
|
0.75
|
|
126
|
Erratum: "Mortality Risk and Fine Particulate Air Pollution in a Large, Representative Cohort of U.S. Adults".
|
Environ Health Perspect
|
2019
|
0.75
|
|
127
|
Long-term exposure to air-pollution and COVID-19 mortality in England: a hierarchical spatial analysis.
|
medRxiv
|
2020
|
0.75
|