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| 1 | A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 | Lancet, The | 2012 | 9,596 |
| 2 | Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 | Lancet, The | 2014 | 9,364 |
| 3 | Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans | Nature | 2016 | 9,271 |
| 4 | The validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 2002 | 8,010 |
| 5 | Essential oils: their antibacterial properties and potential applications in foods—a review | International Journal of Food Microbiology | 2004 | 7,935 |
| 6 | Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis | Age and Ageing | 2019 | 7,635 |
| 7 | Measuring agreement in method comparison studies | Statistical Methods in Medical Research | 1999 | 7,543 |
| 8 | Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 | Lancet, The | 2012 | 7,201 |
| 9 | Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 | Lancet, The | 2012 | 6,546 |
| 10 | Multiple imputation using chained equations: Issues and guidance for practice | Statistics in Medicine | 2011 | 6,536 |
| 11 | NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease | Alzheimer's and Dementia | 2018 | 6,501 |
| 12 | Mendelian randomization with invalid instruments: effect estimation and bias detection through Egger regression | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2015 | 5,738 |
| 13 | An Ecological Perspective on Health Promotion Programs | Health Education Quarterly | 1988 | 5,472 |
| 14 | Effects of intensive blood-pressure lowering and low-dose aspirin in patients with hypertension: principal results of the Hypertension Optimal Treatment (HOT) randomised trial | Lancet, The | 1998 | 5,427 |
| 15 | Consistent Estimation in Mendelian Randomization with Some Invalid Instruments Using a Weighted Median Estimator | Genetic Epidemiology | 2016 | 5,165 |
| 16 | Propensity score methods for bias reduction in the comparison of a treatment to a non-randomized control group | Statistics in Medicine | 1998 | 4,754 |
| 17 | Global prevalence of dementia: a Delphi consensus study | Lancet, The | 2005 | 4,560 |
| 18 | Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-years for 32 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2015 | JAMA Oncology | 2017 | 4,441 |
| 19 | The MR-Base platform supports systematic causal inference across the human phenome | ELife | 2018 | 4,436 |
| 20 | Mild cognitive impairment – beyond controversies, towards a consensus: report of the International Working Group on Mild Cognitive Impairment | Journal of Internal Medicine | 2004 | 4,132 |
| 21 | Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology | Nature | 2015 | 3,992 |
| 22 | External review and validation of the Swedish national inpatient register | BMC Public Health | 2011 | 3,882 |
| 23 | Secondary prevention of macrovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes in the PROactive Study (PROspective pioglitAzone Clinical Trial In macroVascular Events): a randomised controlled trial | Lancet, The | 2005 | 3,873 |
| 24 | Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 3,872 |
| 25 | Statistics notes: Cronbach's alpha | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1997 | 3,731 |
| 26 | Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000–14 (CONCORD-3): analysis of individual records for 37 513 025 patients diagnosed with one of 18 cancers from 322 population-based registries in 71 countries | Lancet, The | 2018 | 3,697 |
| 27 | Assessing the Performance of Prediction Models | Epidemiology | 2010 | 3,548 |
| 28 | Colorectal cancer statistics, 2017 | Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians | 2017 | 3,409 |
| 29 | Mendelian Randomization Analysis With Multiple Genetic Variants Using Summarized Data | Genetic Epidemiology | 2013 | 3,399 |
| 30 | Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids | Nature | 2010 | 3,300 |
| 31 | Qualitative research: standards, challenges, and guidelines | Lancet, The | 2001 | 3,288 |
| 32 | Health literacy as a public health goal: a challenge for contemporary health education and communication strategies into the 21st century | Health Promotion International | 2000 | 3,183 |
| 33 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy | Autophagy | 2012 | 3,158 |
| 34 | Average Risks of Breast and Ovarian Cancer Associated with BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutations Detected in Case Series Unselected for Family History: A Combined Analysis of 22 Studies | American Journal of Human Genetics | 2003 | 3,148 |
| 35 | Statistics notes: Multiple significance tests: the Bonferroni method | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1995 | 3,095 |
| 36 | The Lancet Commission on pollution and health | Lancet, The | 2018 | 3,027 |
| 37 | The pollution of the marine environment by plastic debris: a review | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2002 | 3,023 |
| 38 | Burden and consequences of child maltreatment in high-income countries | Lancet, The | 2009 | 2,997 |
| 39 | No health without mental health | Lancet, The | 2007 | 2,840 |
| 40 | Toward discovery science of human brain function | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 2,753 |
| 41 | Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 2,742 |
| 42 | Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 2,676 |
| 43 | The Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative (ADNI): MRI methods | Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging | 2008 | 2,655 |
| 44 | C-Reactive Protein and Other Circulating Markers of Inflammation in the Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease | New England Journal of Medicine | 2004 | 2,634 |
| 45 | A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation | Nature Genetics | 2016 | 2,559 |
| 46 | A Genome-Wide Association Study of Type 2 Diabetes in Finns Detects Multiple Susceptibility Variants | Science | 2007 | 2,553 |
| 47 | Proposed minimal standards for the use of genome data for the taxonomy of prokaryotes | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 2018 | 2,541 |
| 48 | Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in 22 European Countries | New England Journal of Medicine | 2008 | 2,540 |
| 49 | A 2 year multidomain intervention of diet, exercise, cognitive training, and vascular risk monitoring versus control to prevent cognitive decline in at-risk elderly people (FINGER): a randomised controlled trial | Lancet, The | 2015 | 2,463 |
| 50 | The reproductive number of COVID-19 is higher compared to SARS coronavirus | Journal of Travel Medicine | 2020 | 2,453 |
