Published in Trop Geogr Med on September 01, 1977
Field evaluation of vaccine efficacy. Bull World Health Organ (1985) 4.95
Evaluation of diagnostic criteria for ankylosing spondylitis. A proposal for modification of the New York criteria. Arthritis Rheum (1984) 20.51
Epidemiology of osteoarthritis: Zoetermeer survey. Comparison of radiological osteoarthritis in a Dutch population with that in 10 other populations. Ann Rheum Dis (1989) 6.52
J-shaped relation between change in diastolic blood pressure and progression of aortic atherosclerosis. Lancet (1994) 3.95
Meningococcal disease in The Netherlands, 1958-1990: a steady increase in the incidence since 1982 partially caused by new serotypes and subtypes of Neisseria meningitidis. Clin Infect Dis (1993) 3.63
Efficacy of antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of native-valve endocarditis. Lancet (1992) 3.58
Phenotypic and genotypic changes in a new clone complex of Neisseria meningitidis causing disease in The Netherlands, 1958-1990. J Infect Dis (1994) 3.50
The risk of developing ankylosing spondylitis in HLA-B27 positive individuals. A comparison of relatives of spondylitis patients with the general population. Arthritis Rheum (1984) 3.20
Epidemiology of bacterial endocarditis in The Netherlands. I. Patient characteristics. Arch Intern Med (1992) 2.67
A 12 year follow up study in the general population on prognostic factors of cartilage loss in osteoarthritis of the knee. Ann Rheum Dis (1992) 2.52
Do clinical findings associate with radiographic osteoarthritis of the knee? Ann Rheum Dis (1990) 2.43
Osteoarthritis and obesity in the general population. A relationship calling for an explanation. J Rheumatol (1988) 2.39
Decreased selenium levels in acute myocardial infarction. JAMA (1989) 2.36
A randomized trial of sodium intake and blood pressure in newborn infants. JAMA (1983) 2.32
Associations of radiological osteoarthritis of the hip and knee with locomotor disability in the Rotterdam Study. Ann Rheum Dis (1998) 2.08
Rheumatoid arthritis in a rural South African Negro population. Ann Rheum Dis (1975) 2.03
Aortic calcification as a predictor of cardiovascular mortality. Lancet (1986) 1.97
Depression and depressive symptoms in rheumatoid arthritis patients: an analysis of their occurrence and determinants. Br J Rheumatol (1998) 1.81
Rheumatoid arthritis in an urban South African Negro population. Ann Rheum Dis (1975) 1.79
Childhood leukemia and parental occupation. A register-based case-control study. Am J Epidemiol (1985) 1.75
Long-term effects of neonatal sodium restriction on blood pressure. Hypertension (1997) 1.74
Association of radiographically evident osteoarthritis with higher bone mineral density and increased bone loss with age. The Rotterdam Study. Arthritis Rheum (1996) 1.72
Streptococcal pharyngitis in the general population. II. The attack rate of rheumatic fever and acute glomerulonephritis in patients. J Infect Dis (1971) 1.69
Characterization of two different agglutinators in the latex fixation test, occurring in normal human sera. Immunology (1966) 1.69
Prevalence and determinants of glucose intolerance in a Dutch caucasian population. The Hoorn Study. Diabetes Care (1995) 1.67
Rheumatoid factor in Nigerian sera. Clin Exp Immunol (1971) 1.67
Increased risk of atherosclerosis in women after the menopause. BMJ (1989) 1.66
Childhood leukemia and infectious diseases in the first year of life: a register-based case-control study. Am J Epidemiol (1986) 1.60
Noncontraceptive hormones and rheumatoid arthritis in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women. JAMA (1986) 1.59
Investigation of the association of the CRTM and CRTL1 genes with radiographically evident osteoarthritis in subjects from the Rotterdam study. Arthritis Rheum (1997) 1.58
[Locomotor disability in the elderly; the ERGO Study (Erasmus Rotterdam Health and the Elderly). ERGO Study Group]. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd (1995) 1.47
Lipo-oligosaccharide immunotyping of Neisseria meningitidis by a whole-cell ELISA with monoclonal antibodies. J Med Microbiol (1994) 1.44
Carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in random samples of a normal population. J Hyg (Lond) (1967) 1.41
A population based case-cohort study of drug-induced anaphylaxis. Br J Clin Pharmacol (1993) 1.40
Heritabilities of radiologic osteoarthritis in peripheral joints and of disc degeneration of the spine. Arthritis Rheum (1999) 1.39
Poliomyelitis: epidemiology and prophylaxis. 2. Distribution of oral trivalent vaccine by lay volunteers. Bull World Health Organ (1973) 1.35
Prediction of osteoporotic fractures in the general population by a fracture risk score. A 9-year follow-up among middle-aged women. Am J Epidemiol (1990) 1.34
Epidemiology of rheumatic diseases in rural and urban populations in Indonesia: a World Health Organisation International League Against Rheumatism COPCORD study, stage I, phase 2. Ann Rheum Dis (1992) 1.34
Epidemiology of bacterial endocarditis in The Netherlands. II. Antecedent procedures and use of prophylaxis. Arch Intern Med (1992) 1.33
Epidemiological study of HLA and GM in rheumatoid arthritis and related symptoms in an open Dutch population. Ann Rheum Dis (1984) 1.33
Are maternal fertility problems related to childhood leukaemia? Int J Epidemiol (1985) 1.31
Machakos Project Studies: agents affecting health of mother and child in a rural area of Kenya. VII. The incidence of diarrhoeal disease in the under-five population. Trop Geogr Med (1978) 1.29
Oral contraceptives and rheumatoid arthritis: further evidence for a preventive effect. Lancet (1982) 1.29
Distribution, antibiotic susceptibility and tolerance of bacterial isolates in culture-positive cases of endocarditis in The Netherlands. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (1991) 1.27
Association of locomotor complaints and disability in the Rotterdam study. Ann Rheum Dis (1995) 1.26
National database of patients visiting rheumatologists in The Netherlands: the standard diagnosis register of rheumatic diseases. A report and preliminary analysis. Br J Rheumatol (1998) 1.25
Machakos project studies. Agents affecting health of mother and child in a rural area of Kenya. IV: The epidemiology of pertussis. Trop Geogr Med (1978) 1.25
Epidemiological and clinical aspects relating to the variability of rheumatoid arthritis. Semin Arthritis Rheum (1997) 1.25
Social and epidemiological determinants of gonorrhoea in an East African country. Br J Vener Dis (1972) 1.24
Faecal carriage of aerobic gram-negative bacilli and drug resistance of Escherichia coli in different age-groups in Dutch urban communities. J Med Microbiol (1983) 1.22
The epidemiology of Haemophilus influenzae meningitis in children under five years of age in The Gambia, West Africa. J Infect Dis (1990) 1.22
A longitudinal study of back pain and radiological changes in the lumbar spines of middle aged women. I. Clinical findings. Ann Rheum Dis (1991) 1.20
Rheumatoid factors in a rural population. Ann Rheum Dis (1966) 1.19
Morbidity in Schistosomiasis mansoni in relation to intensity of infection: study of a community in Machakos, Kenya. Am J Trop Med Hyg (1976) 1.19
The associations of neck pain with radiological abnormalities of the cervical spine and personality traits in a general population. J Rheumatol (1991) 1.19
Aprospective study of urinary-tract infections in a Dutch general practice. Lancet (1976) 1.18
Determinants of change in blood pressure during childhood. Am J Epidemiol (1983) 1.17
Frequency of infections among rheumatoid arthritis patients, before and after disease onset. Arthritis Rheum (1987) 1.13
Variation in the M-antigen of group-A streptococci. J Med Microbiol (1969) 1.12
A longitudinal study of back pain and radiological changes in the lumbar spines of middle aged women. II. Radiographic findings. Ann Rheum Dis (1991) 1.10
The lifetime cumulative incidence of acute anterior uveitis in a normal population and its relation to ankylosing spondylitis and histocompatibility antigen HLA-B27. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (1991) 1.09
Ten-year follow-up study of islet-cell antibodies and childhood diabetes mellitus. Lancet (1989) 1.09
Rheumatic pain in a Philippine village. A WHO-ILAR COPCORD Study. Rheumatol Int (1985) 1.09
Agents affecting health of mother and child in a rural area of Kenya. XVII. Population growth in 1974-1978. Trop Geogr Med (1980) 1.08
Machakos Project Studies: agents affecting health of mother and child in a rural area of Kenya. XVI. The outcome of pregnancy. Trop Geogr Med (1979) 1.08
Pertussis in a rural area of Kenya: epidemiology and a preliminary report on a vaccine trial. Bull World Health Organ (1978) 1.08
On standardization of the latex fixation test. Bull Rheum Dis (1976) 1.07
The incidence of hip fractures in independent and institutionalized elderly people. Osteoporos Int (1994) 1.06
Poliomyelitis: epidemiology and prophylaxis. 4. Serological and virological surveys conducted after a mass vaccination campaign for the control of a threatening poliomyelitis epidemic. Bull World Health Organ (1977) 1.06
A prospective sero-epidemiological study of visceral leishmaniasis in Baringo District, Rift Valley Province, Kenya. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (1996) 1.06
Pertussis: epidemiology and control. Bull World Health Organ (1986) 1.06
Sodium restriction and potassium supplementation in young people with mildly elevated blood pressure. J Hypertens (1987) 1.06
Rheumatoid arthritis in Lesotho. Ann Rheum Dis (1984) 1.05
Determinants of locomotor disability in people aged 55 years and over: the Rotterdam Study. Eur J Epidemiol (2001) 1.04
Streptococcal pharyngitis in the general population. I. A controlled study of streptococcal pharyngitis and its complications in the Netherlands. J Infect Dis (1971) 1.04
A five year prospective study of rheumatoid factor tests in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum (1967) 1.03
Differential birthweights and the clinical relevance of birthweight standards in a multiethnic society. Int J Gynaecol Obstet (1991) 1.03
The association of abnormalities on physical examination of the hip and knee with locomotor disability in the Rotterdam Study. Br J Rheumatol (1996) 1.02
Rheumatic disorders in the South African Negro. Part I. Rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis. S Afr Med J (1975) 1.00
Serum copper and zinc and the risk of death from cancer and cardiovascular disease. Am J Epidemiol (1988) 0.99
Time space distribution of childhood leukaemia in the Netherlands. J Epidemiol Community Health (1983) 0.99
Exercise testing in patients with chest pain to sumatriptan. Neth J Med (1998) 0.98
Metacarpal bone loss in middle-aged women: "horse racing" in a 9-year population based follow-up study. J Clin Epidemiol (1990) 0.98
Spondylitic disease without radiologic evidence of sacroiliitis in relatives of HLA-B27 positive ankylosing spondylitis patients. Arthritis Rheum (1985) 0.97
Terminal phalageal osteosclerosis. Ann Rheum Dis (1975) 0.96
Prevalence of radiographic osteoarthritis in two elderly European populations. Rheumatol Int (1992) 0.96
A genetic association study of the IGF-1 gene and radiological osteoarthritis in a population-based cohort study (the Rotterdam Study). Ann Rheum Dis (1998) 0.96
Raised blood pressure and plasma noradrenaline concentrations in teenagers and young adults selected from an open population. Br Med J (1979) 0.96
Q fever in the Netherlands: a sero-epidemiological survey among human population groups from 1968 to 1983. Epidemiol Infect (1987) 0.96
The epidemiology of gout and hyperuricemia in a rural population of Java. J Rheumatol (1992) 0.96
Incidence of childhood leukaemia in The Netherlands (1973-1980). Br J Cancer (1983) 0.95
The impact of measles in a rural area of Kenya. East Afr Med J (1977) 0.95
Determinants of bone mineral density and risk factors for osteoporosis in healthy elderly women. J Bone Miner Res (1993) 0.95
A population study on rheumatoid arthritis in Lesotho, southern Africa. Ann Rheum Dis (1986) 0.93
Increased blood pressure in schoolchildren related to high sodium levels in drinking water. J Epidemiol Community Health (1980) 0.92
[An epidemiological study of risk indicators for cardiovascular diseases (EPOZ). I. Blood pressure, serum cholesterol level, Quetelet-index and smoking habits in an open population aged 5 years and older]. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd (1980) 0.92
Serum selenium, vitamin antioxidants, and cardiovascular mortality: a 9-year follow-up study in the Netherlands. Am J Clin Nutr (1987) 0.92
The arthritis sufferer and the community: a comparison of arthritis sufferers in rural and urban areas. Ann Rheum Dis (1988) 0.92
Visceral leishmaniasis: use of the polymerase chain reaction in an epidemiological study in Baringo District, Kenya. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (1996) 0.92