Alun Evans

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Best Publications

• Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

  Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  8465
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• Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

  Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  5734
  Citations

• Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

  Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  3430
  Citations

• Deletion polymorphism in the gene for angiotensin-converting enzyme is a potent risk factor for myocardial infarction.

  F Cambien;O Poirier;L Lecerf;A Evans

  2694
  Citations

• Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

  Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  2651
  Citations

• Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

  Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

  1713
  Citations

• Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis.

  J Danesh;S Lewington;S G Thompson;Lowe Gdo.

  1547
  Citations

• A century of trends in adult human height

  James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  1428
  Citations

• Estimation of contribution of changes in classic risk factors to trends in coronary-event rates across the WHO MONICA Project populations

  Kari Kuulasmaa;Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe;Annette Dobson;Stephen Fortmann

  1320
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• Functional Polymorphism in the Regulatory Region of Gelatinase B Gene in Relation to Severity of Coronary Atherosclerosis

  Baiping Zhang;Shu Ye;S.-M. Herrmann;P. Eriksson

  850
  Citations

• Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

  Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  778
  Citations

• Polymorphisms of the Transforming Growth Factor-β1 Gene in Relation to Myocardial Infarction and Blood Pressure: The Etude Cas-Témoin de l'Infarctus du Myocarde (ECTIM) Study

  François Cambien;Sylvain Ricard;Alain Troesch;Christine Mallet

  556
  Citations

• C-Reactive Protein, Interleukin-6, and Fibrinogen as Predictors of Coronary Heart Disease The PRIME Study

  Gérald Luc;Jean-Marie Bard;Irène Juhan-Vague;Jean Ferrieres

  547
  Citations

• Genome-wide haplotype association study identifies the SLC22A3-LPAL2-LPA gene cluster as a risk locus for coronary artery disease

  David-Alexandre Trégouët;Inke R König;Jeanette Erdmann;Alexandru Munteanu

  539
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• Apolipoprotein E, epsilon 4 allele as a major risk factor for sporadic early and late-onset forms of Alzheimer's disease: analysis of the 19q13.2 chromosomal region.

  Chartier-Harlin Mc;Parfitt M;Parfitt M;Legrain S;Pérez-Tur J

  500
  Citations

• β Fibrinogen Gene Polymorphisms Are Associated With Plasma Fibrinogen and Coronary Artery Disease in Patients With Myocardial Infarction The ECTIM Study

  Isabelle Behague;Odette Poirier;Viviane Nicaud;Alun Evans

  476
  Citations

• Interleukin-18 and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in European Men The Prospective Epidemiological Study of Myocardial Infarction (PRIME)

  Stefan Blankenberg;Gérald Luc;Pierre Ducimetière;Dominique Arveiler

  459
  Citations

• The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

  Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Teresa Ferreira;Daniel I. Chasman;Anne U. Jackson

  454
  Citations

• Contribution of 30 biomarkers to 10-year cardiovascular risk estimation in 2 population cohorts: the MONICA, risk, genetics, archiving, and monograph (MORGAM) biomarker project.

  Stefan Blankenberg;Tanja Zeller;Olli Saarela;Aki S. Havulinna

  424
  Citations

• The common 'thermolabile' variant of methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase is a major determinant of mild hyperhomocysteinaemia

  D.L. Harmon;J.V. Woodside;J.W.G. Yarnell;D. McMaster

  400
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