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- Homocysteine and risk of ischemic heart disease and stroke: a meta-analysis. (2002) (1883)
- Prospective study of serum total homocysteine concentration and risk of stroke in middle-aged British men (1995) (931)
- Metabolic syndrome vs Framingham Risk Score for prediction of coronary heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. (2005) (688)
- Prospective study of risk factors for development of non-insulin dependent diabetes in middle aged British men (1995) (570)
- Changes in physical activity, mortality, and incidence of coronary heart disease in older men (1998) (556)
- Can metabolic syndrome usefully predict cardiovascular disease and diabetes? Outcome data from two prospective studies (2008) (499)
- ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SERUM ALBUMIN AND MORTALITY FROM CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, CANCER, AND OTHER CAUSES (1989) (417)
- Weight change and duration of overweight and obesity in the incidence of type 2 diabetes. (1999) (336)
- Smoking as a modifiable risk factor for type 2 diabetes in middle-aged men. (2001) (331)
- Serum creatinine concentration and risk of cardiovascular disease: a possible marker for increased risk of stroke. (1997) (321)
- Physical Activity and Mortality in Older Men With Diagnosed Coronary Heart Disease (2000) (318)
- Smoking cessation and the risk of stroke in middle-aged men. (1995) (315)
- Prospective Study of Serum γ-Glutamyltransferase and Risk of NIDDM (1998) (308)
- Decreased muscle mass and increased central adiposity are independently related to mortality in older men. (2007) (293)
- Overweight and obesity and weight change in middle aged men: impact on cardiovascular disease and diabetes (2005) (284)
- SOCIAL CLASS DIFFERENCES IN ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE IN BRITISH MEN (1987) (259)
- Impact of diabetes on cardiovascular disease risk and all-cause mortality in older men: influence of age at onset, diabetes duration, and established and novel risk factors. (2011) (257)
- Physical activity, metabolic factors, and the incidence of coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes. (2000) (253)
- Physical Activity in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (2001) (246)
- Serum urate and the risk of major coronary heart disease events. (1997) (217)
- HDL-Cholesterol, total cholesterol, and the risk of stroke in middle-aged British men. (2000) (207)
- Alcohol, body weight, and weight gain in middle-aged men. (2003) (204)
- Body fat distribution, body composition, and respiratory function in elderly men. (2005) (198)
- Prospective study of serum gamma-glutamyltransferase and risk of NIDDM. (1998) (192)
- Physical activity and risk of cancer in middle-aged men (2001) (179)
- Patterns of alcohol intake and risk of stroke in middle-aged British men. (1996) (179)
- Type of alcoholic drink and risk of major coronary heart disease events and all-cause mortality. (1999) (175)
- Reasons for intentional weight loss, unintentional weight loss, and mortality in older men. (2005) (173)
- Early influences on blood pressure: a study of children aged 5-7 years. (1989) (172)
- Alcohol consumption and the incidence of type II diabetes (2002) (148)
- GIVING UP SMOKING AND THE RISK OF HEART ATTACKS A report from The British Regional Heart Study (1986) (143)
- Genetic neutropenia in people of African origin. (1971) (142)
- Measures of adiposity in the identification of metabolic abnormalities in elderly men. (2005) (138)
- Weight change, weight fluctuation, and mortality. (2002) (137)
- The British Regional Heart Study 1975-2004. (2004) (125)
- Serum-cholesterol, diet, and coronary heart-disease in Africans and Asians in Uganda. (1959) (124)
- Alcohol and adiposity: effects of quantity and type of drink and time relation with meals (2005) (119)
- Adult height, stroke, and coronary heart disease. (1998) (119)
- Alcohol intake and mortality in middle aged men with diagnosed coronary heart disease (2000) (111)
- Chronic pancreatic disease and protein malnutrition. (1960) (111)
- Alcohol intake in middle age and risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality: accounting for intake variation over time. (2005) (111)
- The value of gamma-glutamyltransferase in cardiovascular risk prediction in men without diagnosed cardiovascular disease or diabetes. (2008) (111)
- Serum insulin and incident coronary heart disease in middle-aged British men. (1996) (108)
- Lifelong teetotallers, ex-drinkers and drinkers: mortality and the incidence of major coronary heart disease events in middle-aged British men. (1997) (107)
- Cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality in older men with diabetes and in men with coronary heart disease (2004) (107)
- Obesity and risk of incident heart failure in older men with and without pre-existing coronary heart disease: does leptin have a role? (2011) (103)
- Necropsy study of endomyocardial fibrosis and rheumatic heart disease in Uganda 1950-1965. (1968) (99)
- Modifiable Lifestyle Factors and the Metabolic Syndrome in Older Men: Effects of Lifestyle Changes (2006) (99)
- Overweight and obesity and the burden of disease and disability in elderly men (2004) (97)
- Factors determining case fatality in myocardial infarction "who dies in a heart attack"? (1995) (94)
- Malarial antibodies and autoantibodies to heart and other tissues in the immigrant and indigenous peoples of Uganda. (1968) (93)
- Locomotor disability in a cohort of British men: the impact of lifestyle and disease. (2000) (92)
- Physical Activity in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease An Epidemiological Perspective (2001) (90)
- The natural history of prevalent ischaemic heart disease in middle-aged men. (2000) (88)
- Circulating inflammatory and hemostatic biomarkers are associated with risk of myocardial infarction and coronary death, but not angina pectoris, in older men (2009) (86)
- Nonfasting serum glucose and insulin concentrations and the risk of stroke. (1999) (85)
- Characteristics of older men who lose weight intentionally or unintentionally. (2000) (81)
- Hypertension, serum insulin, obesity and the metabolic syndrome (1998) (79)
- Geographic variation in incidence of coronary heart disease in Britain: the contribution of established risk factors (2001) (78)
- Chest pain on questionnaire and prediction of major ischaemic heart disease events in men. (1998) (74)
- The obesity paradox in men with coronary heart disease and heart failure: The role of muscle mass and leptin (2014) (73)
- Endomyocardial fibrosis. (1968) (73)
- Trends in rates of different forms of diagnosed coronary heart disease, 1978 to 2000: prospective, population based study of British men (2005) (71)
- Serum albumin and risk of stroke, coronary heart disease, and mortality: the role of cigarette smoking. (2004) (70)
- Weight change, body weight and mortality: the impact of smoking and ill health. (2001) (70)
- Physical Activity and the Prevention of Stroke (1999) (69)
- Respiratory function and risk of stroke. (1995) (67)
- The J-shaped curve and changes in drinking habit. (1998) (67)
- SERUM LIPIDS IN THREE NOMADIC TRIBES OF NORTHERN KENYA. (1963) (66)
- Weight change and risk of heart attack in middle-aged British men. (1995) (66)
- Cigarette smoking and serum liver enzymes: the role of alcohol and inflammation (2010) (65)
- Socioeconomic status within social class and mortality: a prospective study in middle-aged British men. (1997) (64)
- Alcohol, Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke: An Examination of the J-Shaped Curve (1998) (62)
- Role of risk factors for major coronary heart disease events with increasing length of follow up (1999) (62)
- Haematocrit, hypertension and risk of stroke (1994) (62)
- Insulin resistance, haemostatic and inflammatory markers and coronary heart disease risk factors in Type 2 diabetic men with and without coronary heart disease (2004) (61)
- Taking up regular drinking in middle age: effect on major coronary heart disease events and mortality (2002) (58)
- North-South Gradients in Britain for Stroke and CHD: Are They Explained by the Same Factors? (2003) (58)
- Pipe and cigar smoking and major cardiovascular events, cancer incidence and all-cause mortality in middle-aged British men. (2003) (58)
- Mild hyponatremia, hypernatremia and incident cardiovascular disease and mortality in older men: A population-based cohort study (2016) (57)
- Modifiable lifestyle factors and the metabolic syndrome in older men: Effects of lifestyle changes. (2006) (56)
- Physical activity and cardiovascular disease. (2002) (54)
- Non-attendance at re-examination 20 years after screening in the British Regional Heart Study. (2002) (54)
- Serum sodium concentration and risk of stroke in middle‐aged males (1994) (53)
- &ggr;-Glutamyltransferase, Hepatic Enzymes, and Risk of Incident Heart Failure in Older Men (2012) (52)
- Hematocrit and Risk of NIDDM (1996) (48)
- Lung function and airway obstruction: associations with circulating markers of cardiac function and incident heart failure in older men—the British Regional Heart Study (2016) (47)
- Height loss in older men: associations with total mortality and incidence of cardiovascular disease. (2006) (47)
- Environmental factors in the development of essential hypertension. (1994) (46)
- Fibrinolysis and plasminogen levels in pregnancy and the puerperium. (1965) (45)
- Lifestyle and cardiovascular disease in middle-aged British men: the effect of adjusting for within-person variation. (2005) (45)
- Resting Electrocardiogram and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Middle-Aged British Men (1995) (43)
- Alcohol, the heart, and health. (1993) (43)
- Blood pressure measurement in children: the importance of cuff bladder size. (1989) (39)
- History of parental death from stroke or heart trouble and the risk of stroke in middle-aged men. (1996) (39)
- Serum potassium, cigarette smoking, and mortality in middle-aged men. (1997) (36)
- Immunological studies in endomyocardial fibrosis and other forms of heart-disease in the tropics. (1967) (34)
- Asymptomatic hyperglycaemia and major ischaemic heart disease events in Britain. (1994) (33)
- Haematocrit, hypertension and risk of stroke. (1995) (33)
- Adiposity, Adipokines, and Risk of Incident Stroke in Older Men (2013) (32)
- Plasma-lipids in an African tribe living on a diet of milk and meat. (1961) (30)
- RELATIVE WEIGHT AND MAJOR ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE EVENTS IN HYPERTENSIVE MEN (1989) (30)
- Fibrinolytic activity in pregnancy, during parturition, and in the puerperium. (1966) (29)
- Migration within Great Britain and cardiovascular disease: early life and adult environmental factors. (2002) (29)
- Endomyocardial fibrosis and rheumatic heart-disease. (1966) (29)
- THE TRIBAL DISTRIBUTION OF ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS IN UGANDA (1965) (28)
- Medicine in a Tropical Environment (1973) (25)
- Fibrinolysis in relation to body fatness, serum lipids and coronary heart disease in African and Asian men in Uganda. (1966) (25)
- Variability of angina symptoms and the risk of major ischemic heart disease events. (2001) (24)
- Mortality and alcohol consumption (1995) (23)
- Social class and height. (1988) (22)
- METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS WITH ESTIMATION OF SALT INTAKE (1981) (22)
- The geographical distribution of endomyocardial fibrosis. (1970) (19)
- INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS AND EMBOLISM IN ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS IN UGANDA (1963) (19)
- Serum true insulin concentration and the risk of clinical non-insulin dependent diabetes during long-term follow-up. (1999) (16)
- SERUM-CHOLESTEROL IN CAMEL-HERDING NOMADS (1962) (16)
- What's new in endomyocardial fibrosis? (1993) (16)
- Alcohol and mortality. (1991) (14)
- Cigarette smoking in British men and selection for coronary artery bypass surgery. (1996) (13)
- FATTY ACIDS AND ISCHÆMIC HEART-DISEASE (1978) (12)
- Annotation: hypertension in populations of African origin. (1997) (12)
- Serum total homocysteine and coronary heart disease in middle-aged (1996) (12)
- Plantain diets, serotonin, and endomyocardial fibrosis. (1967) (12)
- Alcohol intake and mortality (1994) (11)
- Reflections on the Seven Countries Study (1996) (9)
- Serum proteins and mortality (1990) (9)
- Relationship between free and total cholesterol values in human serum. (1965) (8)
- Alcohol consumption decreases with the development of disease. (2011) (8)
- Primary and secondary prevention trials in coronary heart disease (1976) (7)
- Measurement of blood pressure in children. (1989) (7)
- Albumin, Haemostasis and Cardiovascular Disease (1991) (7)
- Sporting Activity and Hyperglycemia in Middle-Aged Men (1993) (6)
- Serum-cholesterol, diet, and coronary heart-disease in Africans and Asians in Uganda: 1959. (2012) (6)
- INTERHEART. Authors' reply (2005) (5)
- ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS AND FILARIASIS (1966) (5)
- Localization of lesions in endomyocardial fibrosis. (1973) (5)
- Cortisone, corticotrophin, and infection. (1955) (5)
- Measuring the Prevalence of Disease in Middle-aged British Men (1999) (4)
- End points for predicting coronary risk must be clarified (2001) (4)
- STOPPING SMOKING AND RISK OF ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE (1989) (4)
- Society for Social Medicine annual meeting 2000 (2000) (4)
- The effects of different alcoholic drinks on haemostatic and inflammatory markers, lipids and insulin in older men: British Regional Heart Study (2003) (4)
- Heat-stable serum alkaline phosphatase of pregnancy in African women. (1969) (3)
- Drinking after a heart attack. (1999) (3)
- ŒSTROGENS, PROGESTERONE, AND PLATELETS (1968) (2)
- Commentary: personal reflection on 'serum-cholesterol, diet and coronary heart-disease in Africans and Asians in Uganda'. (2012) (2)
- Hypertension and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: a prospective study (1993) (2)
- SECONDARY PREVENTION OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE (1989) (2)
- PROTEIN MALNUTRITION AND THE PANCREAS (1958) (2)
- NATIONAL TRENDS IN MORTALITY FROM ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE: IMPLICATIONS FOR PREVENTION (1986) (1)
- Preservation of leucocytes for delayed counts. (1969) (1)
- Early influences on blood pressure:a studyofchildren aged5-7 (1989) (1)
- Alcohol and mortality (1991) (1)
- 6 Serum insulin, blood pressure and coronary heart disease in middle-aged British men (1994) (1)
- INTERHEART (2005) (1)
- Working group on epidemiology & prevention of the european society of cardiology (1998) (0)
- Platelet function. (1968) (0)
- Society for Social Medicine and the International Epidemiological Association European Group (2001) (0)
- Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease: Diet, Lifestyle and Risk Factors in the Seven Countries Study.Kromhout D, Menotti A, Blackburn H (eds). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, pp. 267, £90.00. ISBN: 1-4020-7123-X. (2003) (0)
- Overweight obesity and burden of disease and disability in elderly men (2004) (0)
- Alcohol problems in public health context (1987) (0)
- Prevention of coronary heart-disease. (1976) (0)
- The benefit of light or moderate activity in older men with coronary heart disease. (2000) (0)
- Stroke (1992) (0)
- Serum insulin and risk of coronary heart disease (1997) (0)
- Yes No chest pain Nonexertional chest pain Angina ( Q ) No chest pain Nonexertional chest pain Definite angina ( Q ) Possible angina ( Q ) No chest pain Nonexertional chest pain Grade I angina (2001) (0)
- [Oestrogens, progesterone, and platelets]. (1968) (0)
- Ischaemic heart disease: association with haematocrit intheBritish Regional HeartStudy (1994) (0)
- East African vs. American pancreatic and hepatic fibrosis. (1965) (0)
- GIVING UP SMOKING AND CONVERTING TO PIPE OR CIGARS (1987) (0)
- OP-IJEJ150142_cohort 0..7 (2015) (0)
- Royal academy of medicine in Ireland international conference on homocysteine metabolism from basic science to clinical medicine (1995) (0)
- Alcohol consumption in England and Wales. (1987) (0)
- Heart to Heart. The Twentieth Century Battle against Cardiac Disease. An Oral History. Allen B Weisse. N.J. USA and London: Rutgers University Press, 2002, pp. 415, US$35.00. ISBN: 0-8135-3157. (2003) (0)
- Wine and lifestyle: role in CVD and premature death (2002) (0)
- Localization of lesions in endomyocardial fibrosis 963 (0)
- Bloodlipids: therelationship withalcohol intake, smoking, andbodyweight (1992) (0)
- ALBUMIN, HEMOSTASIS AND CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE (1991) (0)
- MUMPS MENINGO-ENCEPHALITIS (1955) (0)
- 6.3 Hypertension, serum insulin, obesity and the metabolic syndrome (1997) (0)
- Fibrinolytic activity and clot strength in anemia. (1967) (0)
- ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS AND 5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE (1966) (0)
- Early influences on blood pressure: a study of 5-7-year-old children (1989) (0)
- Localization oflesions inendomyocardial fibrosis (1973) (0)
- Serum homocysteine concentration, blood pressure and risk of stroke (1995) (0)
- Metabolic abnormalities identified by anthropometric measures in elderly men - Reply to Esmaillzadeh et al (2006) (0)
- Reply to Esmaillzadeh et al (2006) (0)
- Dietary prevention at home and abroad. (1980) (0)
- IMPLICATIONS FORAGRICULTUREAND THE FOOD INDUSTRY (1980) (0)
- The metabolic syndrome as a predictor of coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes in older men (2006) (0)
- Stroke. Author's replies (1992) (0)
- Serum-cholesterol in camelherding nomads. (1962) (0)
- Losing weight in older age: why is there no apparent benefit? (2000) (0)
- Localization of lesions in endomyocardial fibrosis. (1973) (0)
- Serum sodium and risk of stroke in middle-aged men (1993) (0)
- Serumurateandtherisk ofmajor coronaryheart disease events (2011) (0)
- Does the Use of C-Reactive Protein Improve Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease or Cardiovascular Disease in Middle-Aged British Men? (2009) (0)
- Primary andsecondary prevention trials incoronary heart disease (2017) (0)
- PREVENTION OF CORONARY HEART-DISEASE (1976) (0)
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