David A. Leon

Body-mass index and risk of 22 specific cancers: a population-based cohort study of 5·24 million UK adults

Krishnan Bhaskaran, Ian Douglas, Harriet Forbes et al. · The Lancet · 2014 · 1.7K citations · Full text

Medicine, Oncology, Cancer Epidemiology +16

Association of BMI with overall and cause-specific mortality: a population-based cohort study of 3·6 million adults in the UK

Krishnan Bhaskaran, Isabel dos‐Santos‐Silva, David A. Leon et al. · The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology · 2018 · 1.2K citations · Full text

Public Health, Population Health Sciences, Epidemiologic Methods +12

Reduced fetal growth rate and increased risk of death from ischaemic heart disease: cohort study of 15 000 Swedish men and women born 1915-29

David A. Leon, Hans Lithell, Denny Vågerö et al. · BMJ · 1998 · 812 citations · Full text

Public Health, Cardiology, Obstetrics +17

Huge variation in Russian mortality rates 1984–94: artefact, alcohol, or what?

David A. Leon, Laurent Chenet, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov et al. · The Lancet · 1997 · 788 citations

Social Sciences, Demography, Epidemiology +15

Relation of size at birth to non-insulin dependent diabetes and insulin concentrations in men aged 50-60 years

Hans Lithell, P. M. McKeigue, Lars Berglund et al. · BMJ · 1996 · 731 citations

Medicine, Endocrinology, Aging +12