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| 1 | Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis | Age and Ageing | 2019 | 7,635 |
| 2 | Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus: the thrifty phenotype hypothesis | Diabetologia | 1992 | 2,958 |
| 3 | WEIGHT IN INFANCY AND DEATH FROM ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE | Lancet, The | 1989 | 2,948 |
| 4 | Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hyperlipidaemia (syndrome X): relation to reduced fetal growth | Diabetologia | 1993 | 2,285 |
| 5 | Osteoporosis in the European Union: medical management, epidemiology and economic burden | Archives of Osteoporosis | 2013 | 2,018 |
| 6 | New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 2,014 |
| 7 | Growth in utero, blood pressure in childhood and adult life, and mortality from cardiovascular disease. | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1989 | 1,978 |
| 8 | European guidance for the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women | Osteoporosis International | 2013 | 1,623 |
| 9 | Developmental plasticity and human health | Nature | 2004 | 1,549 |
| 10 | Fetal and placental size and risk of hypertension in adult life. | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1990 | 1,500 |
| 11 | Common genetic determinants of vitamin D insufficiency: a genome-wide association study | Lancet, The | 2010 | 1,406 |
| 12 | Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 | Lancet, The | 2014 | 1,263 |
| 13 | Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity | Nature Genetics | 2008 | 1,187 |
| 14 | European guidance for the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women | Osteoporosis International | 2019 | 1,148 |
| 15 | Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 56 bone mineral density loci and reveals 14 loci associated with risk of fracture | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 1,120 |
| 16 | Use of Oral Corticosteroids and Risk of Fractures | Journal of Bone and Mineral Research | 2000 | 1,116 |
| 17 | A systematic review of hip fracture incidence and probability of fracture worldwide | Osteoporosis International | 2012 | 1,098 |
| 18 | The Epidemiology of Corticosteroid-Induced Osteoporosis: a Meta-analysis | Osteoporosis International | 2002 | 1,096 |
| 19 | Fetal nutrition and adult disease | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2000 | 1,085 |
| 20 | In utero programming of chronic disease | Clinical Science | 1998 | 1,055 |
| 21 | Obesity at the age of 50 y in men and women exposed to famine prenatally | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1999 | 1,042 |
| 22 | Catch-up growth in childhood and death from coronary heart disease: longitudinal study | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1999 | 994 |
| 23 | Associations of linear growth and relative weight gain during early life with adult health and human capital in countries of low and middle income: findings from five birth cohort studies | Lancet, The | 2013 | 985 |
| 24 | Being big or growing fast: systematic review of size and growth in infancy and later obesity | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2005 | 975 |
| 25 | Causes of the excess mortality of schizophrenia | British Journal of Psychiatry | 2000 | 958 |
| 26 | Markers of bone turnover for the prediction of fracture risk and monitoring of osteoporosis treatment: a need for international reference standards | Osteoporosis International | 2011 | 928 |
| 27 | Epidemiology of fractures in England and Wales | Bone | 2001 | 922 |
| 28 | Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies | Lancet, The | 2018 | 915 |
| 29 | Respiratory Viruses, Symptoms, and Inflammatory Markers in Acute Exacerbations and Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2001 | 913 |
| 30 | Osteoarthritis: Epidemiology | Best Practice and Research in Clinical Rheumatology | 2006 | 900 |
| 31 | Epidemiology and burden of osteoarthritis | British Medical Bulletin | 2013 | 894 |
| 32 | Temporal trends and patterns in heart failure incidence: a population-based study of 4 million individuals | Lancet, The | 2018 | 877 |
| 33 | Early growth and coronary heart disease in later life: longitudinal study | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2001 | 837 |
| 34 | Excess mortality following hip fracture: a systematic epidemiological review | Osteoporosis International | 2009 | 831 |
| 35 | Origins of lifetime health around the time of conception: causes and consequences | Lancet, The | 2018 | 821 |
| 36 | Fetal programming and adult health | Public Health Nutrition | 2001 | 809 |
| 37 | European guidance for the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women | Osteoporosis International | 2008 | 804 |
| 38 | Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 | Lancet, The | 2014 | 801 |
| 39 | The prevalence of vertebral deformity in European men and women: The european vertebral osteoporosis study | Journal of Bone and Mineral Research | 1996 | 794 |
| 40 | Grip Strength across the Life Course: Normative Data from Twelve British Studies | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 791 |
| 41 | Why is changing health-related behaviour so difficult? | Public Health | 2016 | 789 |
| 42 | Causal Relationship between Obesity and Vitamin D Status: Bi-Directional Mendelian Randomization Analysis of Multiple Cohorts | PLoS Medicine | 2013 | 775 |
| 43 | Before the beginning: nutrition and lifestyle in the preconception period and its importance for future health | Lancet, The | 2018 | 755 |
| 44 | Relation of birth weight and childhood respiratory infection to adult lung function and death from chronic obstructive airways disease. | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1991 | 744 |
| 45 | Secular trends in the incidence of hip and other osteoporotic fractures | Osteoporosis International | 2011 | 737 |
| 46 | Using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions: new Medical Research Council guidance | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health | 2012 | 726 |
| 47 | Maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy and childhood bone mass at age 9 years: a longitudinal study | Lancet, The | 2006 | 711 |
| 48 | Influence of maternal obesity on the long-term health of offspring | Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology,the | 2017 | 710 |
| 49 | Maternal nutrition, fetal nutrition, and disease in later life | Nutrition | 1997 | 703 |
| 50 | Thinness at birth and insulin resistance in adult life | Diabetologia | 1994 | 700 |
