| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Effect of four monthly oral vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) supplementation on fractures and mortality in men and women living in the community: randomised double blind controlled trial | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2003 | 1,090 |
| 2 | Endogenous Testosterone and Mortality Due to All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer in Men | Circulation | 2007 | 695 |
| 3 | Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 675 |
| 4 | Rare variants of large effect in BRCA2 and CHEK2 affect risk of lung cancer | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 360 |
| 5 | The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study | PLoS Genetics | 2015 | 331 |
| 6 | Seventy-five genetic loci influencing the human red blood cell | Nature | 2012 | 320 |
| 7 | Tea drinking and bone mineral density in older women | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2000 | 252 |
| 8 | A Prospective Study of the Association Between Quantity and Variety of Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Incident Type 2 Diabetes | Diabetes Care | 2012 | 181 |
| 9 | Sex hormones and bone mineral density in elderly men | Bone and Mineral | 1993 | 180 |
| 10 | Combined impact of healthy lifestyle factors on colorectal cancer: a large European cohort study | BMC Medicine | 2014 | 178 |
| 11 | Association Between Soft Drink Consumption and Mortality in 10 European Countries | JAMA Internal Medicine | 2019 | 169 |
| 12 | Population-based geographic variations in dxa bone density in Europe: The evos study | Osteoporosis International | 1997 | 148 |
| 13 | Healthy lifestyle choices: could sense of coherence aid health promotion? | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health | 2007 | 141 |
| 14 | Milk consumption and bone mineral density in middle aged and elderly women | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1994 | 135 |
| 15 | Anthropometric measures, endogenous sex steroids and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women: A study within the EPIC cohort | International Journal of Cancer | 2006 | 132 |
| 16 | Polymorphisms of genes coding for insulin-like growth factor 1 and its major binding proteins, circulating levels of IGF-I and IGFBP-3 and breast cancer risk: results from the EPIC study | British Journal of Cancer | 2006 | 115 |
| 17 | Genome-Wide Association Studies of Asthma in Population-Based Cohorts Confirm Known and Suggested Loci and Identify an Additional Association near HLA | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 111 |
| 18 | Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate and Mortality in Elderly Men and Women | Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism | 2001 | 106 |
| 19 | Serum C-peptide levels and breast cancer risk: Results from the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC) | International Journal of Cancer | 2006 | 104 |
| 20 | Resilience, misfortune, and mortality: evidence that sense of coherence is a marker of social stress adaptive capacity | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 2006 | 100 |
| 21 | Heterogeneity of Colorectal Cancer Risk Factors by Anatomical Subsite in 10 European Countries: A Multinational Cohort Study | Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology | 2019 | 99 |
| 22 | Effect of winter oral vitamin D3 supplementation on cardiovascular risk factors in elderly adults | European Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1995 | 96 |
| 23 | Metabolomic profiles of hepatocellular carcinoma in a European prospective cohort | BMC Medicine | 2015 | 93 |
| 24 | Functional health status, chronic medical conditions and disorders of mood | British Journal of Psychiatry | 2003 | 91 |
| 25 | C-peptide, IGF-I, sex-steroid hormones and adiposity: a cross-sectional study in healthy women within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) | Cancer Causes and Control | 2005 | 90 |
| 26 | How Predictive Is Breast Arterial Calcification of Cardiovascular Disease and Risk Factors When Found at Screening Mammography? | American Journal of Roentgenology | 2006 | 90 |
| 27 | Interrelation of vitamin C, infection, haemostatic factors, and cardiovascular disease | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1995 | 87 |
| 28 | Seasonal variation of blood pressure and its relationship to ambient temperature in an elderly population | Journal of Hypertension | 1993 | 87 |
| 29 | Serum androgens and prostate cancer among 643 cases and 643 controls in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition | International Journal of Cancer | 2007 | 80 |
| 30 | Prospective cohort study of hostility and the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality | International Journal of Cardiology | 2005 | 76 |
| 31 | A principal component meta-analysis on multiple anthropometric traits identifies novel loci for body shape | Nature Communications | 2016 | 74 |
| 32 | How many, how old, how soon? | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1999 | 71 |
| 33 | Risk of second primary malignancies in women with breast cancer: Results from the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC) | International Journal of Cancer | 2015 | 70 |
| 34 | Association of CRP genetic variants with blood concentrations of C‐reactive protein and colorectal cancer risk | International Journal of Cancer | 2015 | 69 |
| 35 | Prediagnostic Plasma Bile Acid Levels and Colon Cancer Risk: A Prospective Study | Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 2020 | 69 |
| 36 | Temperature and cardiovascular mortality | Lancet, The | 1995 | 68 |
| 37 | Seventeen year risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality associated with C-reactive protein, fibrinogen and leukocyte count in men and women: the EPIC-Norfolk study | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2013 | 67 |
| 38 | Pre-diagnostic concordance with the WCRF/AICR guidelines and survival in European colorectal cancer patients: a cohort study | BMC Medicine | 2015 | 66 |
| 39 | Self-reported Tooth Loss and Bone Mineral Density in Older Men and Women | Age and Ageing | 1995 | 64 |
| 40 | Seasonal Variation of Serum Lipids in an Elderly Population | Age and Ageing | 1993 | 60 |
| 41 | Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Using Proposed HbA1c Diagnostic Criteria in the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer–Norfolk Cohort | Diabetes Care | 2011 | 60 |
| 42 | Healthy aging | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1997 | 59 |
| 43 | Mastery is associated with cardiovascular disease mortality in men and women at apparently low risk. | Health Psychology | 2010 | 57 |
| 44 | Biomarker patterns of inflammatory and metabolic pathways are associated with risk of colorectal cancer: results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2014 | 56 |
| 45 | Obesity, confidant support and functional health: cross-sectional evidence from the EPIC-Norfolk cohort | International Journal of Obesity | 2004 | 51 |
| 46 | Sense of coherence, lifestyle choices and mortality | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health | 2008 | 50 |
| 47 | Single-dose cholecalciferol suppresses the winter increase in parathyroid hormone concentrations in healthy older men and women: a randomized trial | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1994 | 47 |
| 48 | Metabolic perturbations prior to hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis: Findings from a prospective observational cohort study | International Journal of Cancer | 2021 | 45 |
| 49 | Fasting Plasma Glucose Levels and Endogenous Androgens in Non-Diabetic Postmenopausal Women | Clinical Science | 1991 | 44 |
| 50 | Aged—associated Bone Loss in Men and Women and its Relationship to weight | Age and Ageing | 1994 | 44 |
