Overweight, Obesity, Coronary Heart Disease and Mortality

Indices of relative weight and obesity

1972 • 1,967 citations

Variations in mortality by weight among 750,000 men and women

1979 • 1,200 citations

Relationship of blood pressure, serum cholesterol, smoking habit, relative weight and ECG abnormalities to incidence of major coronary events: Final report of the pooling project

1978 • 951 citations

Seven Countries

1980 • 856 citations

ISCHÆMIC HEART-DISEASE IN RELATION TO FASTING VALUES OF PLASMA TRIGLYCERIDES AND CHOLESTEROL

1972 • 770 citations

A Longitudinal Study of Coronary Heart Disease

1963 • 620 citations

Recommended Dietary Allowances

1991 • 592 citations

Multivariate prediction of coronary heart disease during 8.5 year follow-up in the western collaborative group study

1976 • 436 citations

Handbuch der Physiologie

2009 • 385 citations

Relation of body weight to development of ischemic heart disease in a cohort of young north American men after a 26 year observation period: The manitoba study

1977 • 349 citations

Mortality and Coronary Heart Disease Among Men Studied for 23 Years

1971 • 348 citations

Coronary Heart Disease among Minnesota Business and Professional Men Followed Fifteen Years

1963 • 295 citations

The Influence of Obesity on Health

1974 • 283 citations

Coronary artery disease in men eighteen to thirty-nine years of age

1948 • 275 citations

MYOCARDIAL ISCHÆMIA, RISK FACTORS AND DEATH FROM CORONARY HEART-DISEASE

1977 • 270 citations

Die Gesetze des Energieverbrauchs bei der Ernährung

1902 • 244 citations

The epidemiology of coronary heart disease

1965 • 239 citations

Coronary artery disease in men eighteen to thirtynine years of age

1948 • 234 citations

The interrelationship of serum cholesterol, hypertension, body weight, and risk of coronary disease

1964 • 219 citations

Risk factors for myocardial infarction and death due to ischemic heart disease and other causes

1975 • 173 citations

Relationship of relative weight and body mass index to 14-year mortality in the Chicago Peoples Gas Company study

1975 • 155 citations

Some Re-Evaluations of theBuild and Blood Pressure Study, 1959as Related to Ponderal Index, Somatotype and Mortality

1966 • 128 citations

Prognosis of acute myocardial infarction

1949 • 97 citations

The Influence of Obesity on Health

1974 • 93 citations

The differential effect of serum cholesterol, blood pressure and weight on the incidence of myocardial infarction and angina pectoris

1971 • 65 citations

OBESITY IN RELATION TO MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY FROM CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE1

1980 • 62 citations

The Use of Radioactive Xenon in Diagnostic Procedures for Pulmonary Disease

1972 • 61 citations

Report of a ten-year follow-up study of the San Francisco Longshoremen

1963 • 58 citations

THE YUGOSLAVIA CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE STUDY II. FACTORS IN THE INCIDENCE OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE

1976 • 56 citations

Coronary artery disease in men eighteen to thrity-nine years of age

1948 • 56 citations

Obesity and Degenerative Heart Disease

1954 • 54 citations

Cardiovascular Medicine

1978 • 51 citations

Obesity and heart disease

1955 • 32 citations

Dietary studies in New York city in 1896 and 1897 by W.O. Atwater and A.P. Bryant.

1902 • 7 citations