Published in Am J Epidemiol on January 01, 1986
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The British Diabetic Association Cohort Study, II: cause-specific mortality in patients with insulin-treated diabetes mellitus. Diabet Med (1999) 3.26
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The British Diabetic Association Cohort Study, I: all-cause mortality in patients with insulin-treated diabetes mellitus. Diabet Med (1999) 2.31
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Haemophilus influenzae invasive disease in the United States, 1994-1995: near disappearance of a vaccine-preventable childhood disease. Emerg Infect Dis (1998) 1.57
Reporting efficiency during a measles outbreak in New York City, 1991. Am J Public Health (1993) 1.53
Cancer incidence and mortality in patients with insulin-treated diabetes: a UK cohort study. Br J Cancer (2005) 1.52
Measles epidemic in Romania, 1996-1998: assessment of vaccine effectiveness by case-control and cohort studies. Am J Epidemiol (1999) 1.48
The prevalence of diabetes in elderly people. Diabet Med (1991) 1.48
Exudative pharyngitis possibly due to Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum, a new challenge in the differential diagnosis of diphtheria. Emerg Infect Dis (1997) 1.43
Latest trends in cancer incidence among UK South Asians in Leicester. Br J Cancer (2003) 1.42
Trends in mortality of childhood-onset insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in Leicestershire: 1940-1991. Diabet Med (1995) 1.41
The adequacy of management of women with CIN 2 and CIN 3 Pap smear abnormalities. Med J Aust (1993) 1.40
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Effectiveness of influenza vaccine in reducing hospital admissions in people with diabetes. Epidemiol Infect (1997) 1.36
Lung function and respiratory symptoms in silicotic and nonsilicotic gold miners. Am Rev Respir Dis (1978) 1.33
Use of record linkage techniques to maintain the Leicestershire Diabetes Register. Comput Methods Programs Biomed (1994) 1.29
Molecular epidemiology of Bordetella pertussis by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profile: Cincinnati, 1989-1996. J Infect Dis (2001) 1.29
Shifting of care for diabetes from secondary to primary care, 1990-5: review of general practices. BMJ (1998) 1.27
A decade of diabetes: keeping children out of hospital. BMJ (1993) 1.27
African vital statistics--a black hole? S Afr Med J (1985) 1.26
Death certification: production and evaluation of a training video. Med Educ (1996) 1.25
Completeness of reporting for paralytic poliomyelitis, United States, 1980 through 1991. Implications for estimating the risk of vaccine-associated disease. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (1994) 1.23
Inequalities in access to diabetes care: evidence from a historical cohort study. Qual Health Care (2000) 1.19
Effect of improved data collection on breast cancer incidence and survival: reconciliation of a registry with a clinical database. BMJ (2000) 1.17
Partial remission phase of diabetes in children younger than age 10 years. Arch Dis Child (1999) 1.16
Drop-out and newcomer bias in a community cardiovascular follow-up study. Int J Epidemiol (1990) 1.13
Measles eradication: is it in our future? Am J Public Health (2000) 1.12
Regression with an ordered categorical response. Stat Med (1989) 1.09
Tetanus surveillance--United States, 1989-1990. MMWR CDC Surveill Summ (1992) 1.09
Incidence and causes of maternal mortality in five Kampala hospitals, 1980-1986. East Afr Med J (1991) 1.09
Use of general practitioner beds in Leicestershire community hospitals. Br J Gen Pract (1995) 1.09
Target practice: choosing target conditions for test accuracy studies that are relevant to clinical practice. BMJ (2011) 1.07
How do individuals with diabetes use the accident and emergency department? J Accid Emerg Med (1997) 1.07
Clinical characteristics and management of 676 hospitalized diphtheria cases, Kyrgyz Republic, 1995. J Infect Dis (2000) 1.06
Evaluating obstetric risk scores by receiver operating characteristic curves. Am J Epidemiol (1988) 1.05
Mortality of South Asian patients with insulin-treated diabetes mellitus in the United Kingdom: a cohort study. Diabet Med (2004) 1.04
Risk of asbestosis in crocidolite and amosite mines in South Africa. Ann N Y Acad Sci (1979) 1.04
Think globally, act locally: the role of local demographics and vaccination coverage in the dynamic response of measles infection to control. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2013) 1.02
Childhood tuberculosis and tuberculous meningitis: high incidence rates in the Western Cape of South Africa. Tuber Lung Dis (1992) 1.02
Mseleni joint disease in 1981: decreased prevalence rates, wider geographical location than before, and socioeconomic impact of an endemic osteoarthrosis in an underdeveloped community in South Africa. Int J Epidemiol (1985) 1.02
The effect of Edmonston-Zagreb and Schwarz measles vaccines on immune response in infants. J Infect Dis (1996) 1.01
Pertussis surveillance--United States, 1989-1991. MMWR CDC Surveill Summ (1992) 1.01
The effects of demographic shift on coronary heart disease mortality in a large migrant population at high risk. J Public Health Med (1991) 1.01
Vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis and HIV infection. Lancet (1994) 1.00
What is the prevalence of visual impairment in the general and diabetic populations: are there ethnic and gender differences? Diabet Med (2002) 0.98
Criteria for the notification of childhood tuberculosis in a high-incidence area of the western Cape Province. S Afr Med J (1990) 0.98
The influence of availability of free school milk on the height of children in England and Scotland. J Epidemiol Community Health (1979) 0.97
Prevalence of motor impairment and disability in a rural community in KwaZulu. Int Rehabil Med (1987) 0.97
The causes of non-natural deaths in children over a 15-year period in greater Cape Town. S Afr Med J (1984) 0.96
PIS and DRGs: coding inaccuracies and their consequences for resource management. J Public Health Med (1991) 0.95
Concurrent outbreaks of pertussis and Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection: clinical and epidemiological characteristics of illnesses manifested by cough. Clin Infect Dis (1995) 0.95
Respiratory diphtheria in the United States, 1980 through 1995. Am J Public Health (1998) 0.95
Screening for Type 2 diabetes mellitus: a decision analytic approach. Diabet Med (2000) 0.93
Large outbreak of pertussis among young children in Chicago, 1993: investigation of potential contributing factors and estimation of vaccine effectiveness. Pediatr Infect Dis J (1996) 0.93
Risk factors for pertussis in young infants during an outbreak in Chicago in 1993. Clin Infect Dis (1996) 0.93
Evaluation of a mass-media-led campaign to increase Pap smear screening. Health Educ Res (1991) 0.92
Effectiveness of the pertussis vaccination program as determined by use of the screening method: United States, 1992-1994. J Infect Dis (1997) 0.92
Waving goodbye to measles. Nature (2001) 0.91
Insulin treated diabetes mellitus: causes of death determined from record linkage of population based registers in Leicestershire, UK. J Epidemiol Community Health (1995) 0.91
Undergraduate education about cancer. Eur J Cancer (1991) 0.90
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of dysplastic, papillomavirus-positive cervicovaginal lavage specimens. Gynecol Oncol (1995) 0.90
A comparison of the mortality rates of various population groups in the Republic of South Africa. S Afr Med J (1979) 0.90
Thickening of pulmonary interlobar fissures: exposure-response relationship in crocidolite and amosite miners. Br J Ind Med (1979) 0.90
Tetanus surveillance--United States, 1991-1994. MMWR CDC Surveill Summ (1997) 0.89
Symptomatic urinary tract infection in preschool Australian children. J Paediatr Child Health (1998) 0.89
Risk of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis in Latin America, 1989-91. Bull World Health Organ (1995) 0.89
Economic evaluation of use of diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis vaccine or diphtheria, tetanus, and whole-cell pertussis vaccine in the United States, 1997. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (2000) 0.89
Why don't all general practices offer structured diabetes care? A comparison of practices that do not with those that do. Public Health (1996) 0.89
Kinetics of insulin secretion in chronic pancreatitis and mild maturity onset diabetes. (Evidence for "gut hormone" action beyond glucoreceptor and cyclic adenosine monophosphate mediated insulin release). Eur J Clin Invest (1976) 0.88
Lead and morbidity: A dose-response relationship. Lancet (1978) 0.87
Do diabetes clinic attendees stay out of hospital? A matched case-control study. Diabet Med (1999) 0.87
The impact of diarrhoeal disease on childhood deaths in the RSA, 1968-1985. S Afr Med J (1989) 0.86
The prevalence of nosocomial and community-acquired infections in Australian hospitals. Med J Aust (1989) 0.85
Variation in the diagnosis of vesicoureteric reflux using micturating cystourethrography. Pediatr Nephrol (1997) 0.85
Comparative incidence of Type I diabetes in children aged under 15 years from South Asian and White or Other ethnic backgrounds in Leicestershire, UK, 1989 to 1998. Diabetologia (2001) 0.84
What do pacemaker recipients think of their implantations? An exploratory study. S Afr Med J (1985) 0.84
Changes within T cell receptor V beta subsets in infants following measles vaccination. Clin Immunol Immunopathol (1996) 0.84
A randomized controlled trial of compliance improving strategies in Soweto hypertensives. Med Care (1991) 0.83
Childhood mortality rates, infant feeding and use of health services in rural Transkei. S Afr Med J (1984) 0.83
Pointers to preventing hyperglycaemic emergencies in Soweto. S Afr Med J (1983) 0.83
Gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) in chronic pancreatitis. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (1976) 0.82
The 1996 Leicestershire Community Stroke & Ethnicity Study: differences and similarities between South Asian and white strokes. Int J Epidemiol (1999) 0.82
Association between familial hypercholesterolaemia and church affiliation. Is this the result of sociocultural isolation of migrant farmers in 19th-century South Africa? S Afr Med J (1984) 0.81
Measurement of blood pressure. Br Med J (1976) 0.81