Infection, inflammation, height, and longevity

C-Reactive Protein and Other Circulating Markers of Inflammation in the Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease

2004 • 2,914 citations

Broken Limits to Life Expectancy

2002 • 2,691 citations

C-Reactive Protein Levels and Outcomes after Statin Therapy

2005 • 2,249 citations

Trade‐offs in evolutionary immunology: just what is the cost of immunity?

2000 • 2,006 citations

Low grade inflammation and coronary heart disease: prospective study and updated meta-analyses

2000 • 1,703 citations

Thematic review series: The Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis. Effects of infection and inflammation on lipid and lipoprotein metabolism mechanisms and consequences to the host

2004 • 1,358 citations

The molecular basis of skeletal muscle atrophy

2004 • 973 citations

Height. Weight and Mortality The Norwegian Experience

1984 • 882 citations

Plasma Concentration of C-Reactive Protein and Risk of Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack: The Framingham Study

2001 • 799 citations

Inflammatory Exposure and Historical Changes in Human Life-Spans

2004 • 759 citations

Are poor living conditions in childhood and adolescence an important risk factor for arteriosclerotic heart disease?

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Health and Welfare during Industrialization

1997 • 642 citations

The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100

2004 • 611 citations

Height, Health and History

1990 • 563 citations

The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World

2004 • 463 citations

Dyslipidemia and inflammation: an evolutionary conserved mechanism

2005 • 419 citations

Does childhood health affect chronic morbidity in later life?

2001 • 410 citations

Rising life expectancy: a global history

2002 • 400 citations

Causes of death : life tables for national populations

1972 • 382 citations

DEATH-RATES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND SWEDEN SOME GENERAL REGULARITIES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE

1934 • 358 citations

The developmental origins of well–being

2004 • 353 citations

Life history theory and the immune system: Steps toward a human ecological immunology

2003 • 342 citations

Impact of Infectious Burden on Extent and Long-Term Prognosis of Atherosclerosis

2002 • 338 citations

Intestinal permeability, mucosal injury, and growth faltering in Gambian infants

1991 • 332 citations

Rising Life Expectancy

2001 • 331 citations

Lipids, risk factors and ischaemic heart disease

1996 • 323 citations

Effects of total pathogen burden on coronary artery disease risk and C-reactive protein levels

2000 • 304 citations

PROTEIN TURNOVER WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MAN

1984 • 295 citations

Inflammatory pathways in atherosclerosis and acute coronary syndromes

2001 • 283 citations

Slow Mortality Rate Accelerations During Aging in Some Animals Approximate That of Humans

1990 • 272 citations

The fetal origins of atherosclerosis: maternal hypercholesterolemia, and cholesterol‐lowering or antioxidant treatment during pregnancy influence in utero programming and postnatal susceptibility to atherogenesis

2002 • 270 citations

The Decline of Mortality in Europe

1991 • 222 citations

Malaria and Pregnancy: Placental Cytokine Expression and Its Relationship to Intrauterine Growth Retardation

1999 • 209 citations

Population Distributions of C-reactive Protein in Apparently Healthy Men and Women in the United States: Implication for Clinical Interpretation

2003 • 201 citations

High-density lipoprotein-associated apolipoprotein A-I: the missing link between infection and chronic inflammation?

2002 • 198 citations

Understanding the twentieth-century decline in chronic conditions among older men

2000 • 196 citations

Airborne infectious diseases during infancy and mortality in later life in southern Sweden, 1766–1894

2003 • 188 citations

Risk factors associated with abdominal aortic aneurysm: A population-based study with historical and current data

2005 • 186 citations

C-Reactive Protein and Features of the Metabolic Syndrome in a Population-Based Sample of Children and Adolescents

2004 • 175 citations

The impact of ordinary illnesses on the dietary intakes of malnourished children

1980 • 173 citations

Impact of infection on the growth of children from 0 to 2 years in an urban West African community

1988 • 156 citations

C-Reactive Protein Enhances LOX-1 Expression in Human Aortic Endothelial Cells

2004 • 156 citations

Human C-Reactive Protein Increases Cerebral Infarct Size after Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion in Adult Rats

2004 • 140 citations

Muscle Undergoes Atrophy in Association with Increase of Lysosomal Cathepsin Activity in Interleukin-6 Transgenic Mouse

1995 • 139 citations

Endothelial Dysfunction in Childhood Infection

2005 • 127 citations

Impact of pathogen burden in patients with coronary artery disease in relation to systemic inflammation and variation in genes encoding cytokines

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On arterial lesions found in Egyptian mummies (1580 <scp>B.C.</scp>—525 <scp>A.D.</scp>)

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The metabolic cost of fever

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Macrophage uptake of low-density lipoprotein bound to aggregated C-reactive protein: possible mechanism of foam-cell formation in atherosclerotic lesions

2002 • 102 citations

Arteriosclerosis; A Survey of the Problem.

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Adiponectin, insulin resistance, and C-reactive protein in postpubertal Asian Indian adolescents

2004 • 80 citations

New aspects on the role of plasma lipases in lipoprotein catabolism and atherosclerosis

1996 • 73 citations

Elevated acute-phase protein in stunted Nepali children reporting low morbidity: different rural and urban profiles

2001 • 63 citations

Infant diarrhoea and subsequent mortality from heart disease and cancer.

1982 • 57 citations

Disease, Mortality and Population in Transition

1993 • 53 citations

Do high levels of C-reactive protein in Tanzanian children indicate malaria morbidity

1994 • 48 citations

Secular Changes in Sleep Position During Infancy: 1995–1998

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Atherosclerosis: humoral and cellular factors of inflammation

2005 • 38 citations

Serum procalcitonin and C‐reactive protein in children with diarrhoea of various aetiologies

2004 • 35 citations

Human immunodeficiency virus infection, diarrheal disease and sociodemographic predictors of child growth

2004 • 35 citations

Energy cost of growth during infancy

1989 • 28 citations

Arterial disease in antiquity

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Inflammation in Cardiovascular Disease

2002 • 23 citations

A prevalence survey of lipids abnormalities of rural area in Amphoe Phon, Khon Kaen.

1993 • 19 citations

Diarrhea Reduces the Rates of Cardiac Protein Synthesis in Myofibrillar Protein Fractions in Rats In Vivo

2001 • 17 citations

Response to Comment on "Inflammatory Exposure and Historical Changes in Human Life-Spans"

2005 • 13 citations

Sodium Balance During Acute Diarrhoea in Malnourished Children

1992 • 7 citations