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Lower respiratory tract symptoms in Queensland schoolchildren: risk factors for wheeze, cough and diminished ventilatory function. Thorax (1993) 0.84
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The relevance in adults of air-flow obstruction, but not of mucus hypersecretion, to mortality from chronic lung disease. Results from 20 years of prospective observation. Am Rev Respir Dis (1983) 4.90
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Diagnostic tests 2: Predictive values. BMJ (1994) 12.97
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. BMJ (1995) 10.36
Using patient and general practice characteristics to explain variations in cervical smear uptake rates. BMJ (1994) 9.81
Influence of morbidity, illness label, and social, family, and health service factors on drug treatment of childhood asthma. Lancet (1981) 7.65
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Changes in the reported prevalence of childhood eczema since the 1939-45 war. Lancet (1984) 6.63
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Comparison of clinical information gained from routine blood-gas analysis and from gastric tonometry for intramural pH. Lancet (1993) 5.90
Statistics notes. Treatment allocation in controlled trials: why randomise? BMJ (1999) 5.86
Confounding and effect modification in the short-term effects of ambient particles on total mortality: results from 29 European cities within the APHEA2 project. Epidemiology (2001) 5.80
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Air pollution and daily mortality in London: 1987-92. BMJ (1996) 4.97
Comparing several groups using analysis of variance. BMJ (1996) 4.89
Controlled evaluation of the effects of patient education on asthma morbidity in general practice. Lancet (1986) 4.31
Time to event (survival) data. BMJ (1998) 4.29
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The intracluster correlation coefficient in cluster randomisation. BMJ (1998) 4.07
Short term effects of air pollution on health: a European approach using epidemiologic time series data: the APHEA protocol. J Epidemiol Community Health (1996) 3.90
Epidemiology and detection of HIV-1 among pregnant women in the United Kingdom: results from national surveillance 1988-96. BMJ (1998) 3.85
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The development of respiratory symptoms in a cohort of Kent schoolchildren. Bull Physiopathol Respir (Nancy) (1975) 3.78
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Detecting skewness from summary information. BMJ (1996) 2.88
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A national survey of asthma prevalence, severity, and treatment in Great Britain. Arch Dis Child (1994) 2.74
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Fluctuations in symptoms in human immunodeficiency virus-infected children: the first 10 years of life. Pediatrics (2001) 2.54
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Inappropriate use of daily mortality analyses to estimate longer-term mortality effects of air pollution. Int J Epidemiol (1998) 2.40
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Randomised controlled trial of effects of coordinating care for terminally ill cancer patients. BMJ (1992) 2.26
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Serum insulin-like growth factor-1 is not a useful marker of prostate cancer. BJU Int (1999) 2.14
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A new, minimally invasive technique for measuring cardiac index: clinical comparison of continuous cardiac dynamic monitoring and pulmonary artery catheter methods. Anaesthesia (2009) 2.04
Antibody production studied by means of the localized haemolysis in gel (LHG) assay. 3. Mouse cells producing five different classes of antibody. Immunology (1969) 2.04
Uteroplacental arterial changes related to interstitial trophoblast migration in early human pregnancy. Placenta (1983) 2.03
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Infant feeding and HIV-1 infection. AIDS (2000) 1.78
Angiotensin-converting enzyme gene deletion polymorphism. A new risk factor for lacunar stroke but not carotid atheroma. Stroke (1995) 1.77
Handedness and longevity: archival study of cricketers. BMJ (1995) 1.76
Emergency hospital admissions for respiratory disorders attributable to summer time ozone episodes in Great Britain. Thorax (1997) 1.72
Effects of exposure to gas cooking in childhood and adulthood on respiratory symptoms, allergic sensitization and lung function in young British adults. Clin Exp Allergy (1999) 1.71
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Statistics notes. Units of analysis. BMJ (1997) 1.70
Evaluating health education in asthma -- developing the methodology: preliminary communication. J R Soc Med (1982) 1.69
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Current tuberculosis screening practices. Am J Public Health (1984) 1.67
Childhood antecedents of allergic sensitization in young British adults. J Allergy Clin Immunol (1997) 1.67
The home environment and asthma symptoms in childhood: two population based case-control studies 13 years apart. Thorax (1997) 1.65
An investigation of 140 deaths associated with volatile substance abuse in the United Kingdom (1971-1981). Hum Toxicol (1982) 1.64