| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Smoking Cessation and Severity of Weight Gain in a National Cohort | New England Journal of Medicine | 1991 | 752 |
| 2 | Development of normalized curves for the international growth reference: historical and technical considerations | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1987 | 429 |
| 3 | Interpretation of Z-score anthropometric indicators derived from the international growth reference | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1987 | 270 |
| 4 | Altitude and birth weight | Journal of Pediatrics | 1987 | 160 |
| 5 | The Effect of Cigarette Smoking on Hemoglobin Levels and Anemia Screening | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1990 | 153 |
| 6 | The behavioral risk factor surveys: II. Design, methods, and estimates from combined state data | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 1985 | 145 |
| 7 | Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among 4th and 5th grade students: results from focus groups using reciprocal determinism | Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior | 1993 | 142 |
| 8 | Iron Nutrition Does Not Account for the Hemoglobin Differences between Blacks and Whites | Journal of Nutrition | 1992 | 141 |
| 9 | Weight Loss and Mortality in a National Cohort of Adults, 1971–1987 | American Journal of Epidemiology | 1992 | 134 |
| 10 | Is Maternal Obesity a Risk Factor for Anencephaly and Spina Bifida? | Epidemiology | 1996 | 130 |
| 11 | Birth weight and childhood growth | Pediatrics | 1988 | 127 |
| 12 | The roles of inflammation and iron deficiency as causes of anemia | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1988 | 117 |
| 13 | Alcohol and Fatal Injuries Among US Adults | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1988 | 91 |
| 14 | The 10-y incidence of obesity and major weight gain in black and white US women aged 30–55 y | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1991 | 83 |
| 15 | A comparison of alcohol sales data with survey data on self-reported alcohol use in 21 states. | American Journal of Public Health | 1990 | 71 |
| 16 | Trends in Alcohol Consumption by Pregnant Women | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1991 | 65 |
| 17 | Diet, smoking, and alcohol in cancer of the larynx: A case‐control study | Nutrition and Cancer | 1992 | 65 |
| 18 | Is race associated with weight change in US adults after adjustment for income, education, and marital factors? | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1991 | 64 |
| 19 | Effect of smoking on serum nutrient concentrations in African-American women | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1994 | 63 |
| 20 | Dietary glutathione intake in humans and the relationship between intake and plasma total glutathione level | Nutrition and Cancer | 1994 | 62 |
| 21 | Altitude and childhood growth | Journal of Pediatrics | 1988 | 58 |
| 22 | The effect of cigarette smoking on hemoglobin levels and anemia screening | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1990 | 58 |
| 23 | Macrosomia: Influence of maternal overweight among a low-income population | American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | 1990 | 49 |
| 24 | Perceptions of Tap Water and School Water Fountains and Association With Intake of Plain Water and Sugar‐Sweetened Beverages | Journal of School Health | 2014 | 47 |
| 25 | Precision of recumbent anthropometry | American Journal of Human Biology | 1993 | 45 |
| 26 | Obesity Among Mescalero Preschool Children | American Journal of Diseases of Children | 1991 | 44 |
| 27 | Associations between breast cancer, plasma triglycerides, and cholesterol | Nutrition and Cancer | 1991 | 42 |
| 28 | Assessing Consumption of High-Fat Foods: The Effect of Grouping Foods into Single Questions | Epidemiology | 1992 | 42 |
| 29 | Race and birth weight: the Chinese example | Pediatrics | 1991 | 42 |
| 30 | Improving Growth Status of Asian Refugee Children in the United States | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1992 | 39 |
| 31 | Estimates of costs and effects of screening for colorectal cancer in the united states | Cancer | 1992 | 39 |
| 32 | Trends and patterns in height and weight status of low‐income U.S. children | Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition | 1993 | 35 |
| 33 | High incidence of mild acute mountain sickness in conference attendees at 10 000 foot altitude | Wilderness and Environmental Medicine | 1990 | 34 |
| 34 | Use of the Confidence Interval function | Epidemiology | 1990 | 33 |
| 35 | Coordinated Strategies for Controlling Micronutrient Malnutrition: A Technical Workshop | Journal of Nutrition | 1993 | 32 |
| 36 | Weight Loss and Bulimic Eating Behavior: Changing Patterns Within a Population of Young Adult Women | Southern Medical Journal | 1991 | 28 |
| 37 | Intraindividual double burden of overweight or obesity and micronutrient deficiencies or anemia among women of reproductive age in 17 population-based surveys | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2020 | 27 |
| 38 | Serum cholesterol levels in a multiracial sample of 7,439 preschool children from Arizona | Preventive Medicine | 1992 | 25 |
| 39 | The Epidemiology of Drinking and Driving: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1986 | Health Education Quarterly | 1989 | 24 |
| 40 | Trends in alcohol consumption by pregnant women. 1985 through 1988 | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1991 | 24 |
| 41 | The behavioral risk factor surveys: I. State-specific prevalence estimates of behavioral risk factors | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 1985 | 24 |
| 42 | Cholesterol and coronary artery disease: Age as an effect modifier | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1992 | 22 |
| 43 | Tracking of serum cholesterol levels in a multiracial sample of preschool children | Pediatrics | 1992 | 22 |
| 44 | Trends in Anthropometric Measurements Among Mescalero Apache Indian Preschool Children | American Journal of Diseases of Children | 1992 | 20 |
| 45 | Infant Feeding and Long-Term Outcomes: Results From the Year 6 Follow-Up of Children in the Infant Feeding Practices Study II | Pediatrics | 2014 | 18 |
| 46 | Correlates of breast-feeding in a low-income population of whites, blacks, and Southeast Asians | Journal of the American Dietetic Association | 1991 | 18 |
| 47 | The High Cost and Low Efficacy of Weekly Viral Cultures for Pregnant Women with Recurrent Genital Herpes | Medical Decision Making | 1989 | 16 |
| 48 | Alcohol and fatal injuries among US adults. Findings from the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1988 | 16 |
| 49 | The contributions of income, education and changing marital status to weight change among US men | | 1990 | 14 |
| 50 | Predicting duration of breast feeding in a group of urban primiparae | Ecology of Food and Nutrition | 1984 | 13 |
