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Disease Risk

Disease Risk is a probabilistic assessment of the likelihood and potential impact of an individual or population contracting a specific disease, distinguished from other health risks by its focus on pathogenic, environmental, and behavioral factors influencing disease incidence and spread.

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280.3K

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25.3K

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5.1K

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Social Conditions As Fundamental Causes of Disease

Bruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan · Journal of Health and Social Behavior · 1995 · 5.6K citations

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Persistent epigenetic differences associated with prenatal exposure to famine in humans

Bastiaan T. Heijmans, Elmar W. Tobi, Aryeh D. Stein et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · 3.1K citations · Full text

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Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, Lily Alexander, H Ross Anderson et al. · The Lancet · 2015 · 2.7K citations · Full text

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Rising prevalence of multiple sclerosis worldwide: Insights from the Atlas of MS, third edition

Clare Walton, Rachel King, Lindsay Rechtman et al. · Multiple Sclerosis Journal · 2020 · 2.5K citations · Full text

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Plasma homocysteine as a risk factor for vascular disease. The European Concerted Action Project.

Ian M. Graham · PubMed · 1997 · 1.8K citations

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Authors

25.3K

  1. RS
    Richard S. Ostfeld

    Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, United States

    18 publications · 4.9K citations

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  2. GD
    George Davey Smith

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    15 publications · 1.9K citations

    15

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  3. JL
    Jan Lubiński

    Pomeranian Medical University, Poland

    13 publications · 1.7K citations

    12

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  4. HB
    Hermann Brenner

    Heidelberg University, Germany

    12 publications · 4.5K citations

    12

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  5. PR
    Peter R. Carroll

    University of California, San Francisco, United States

    12 publications · 1.3K citations

    12

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Institutions

5.1K

  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    65 h-index

    525 publications

    60.6K citations

  2. Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Boston, United States

    48 h-index

    227 publications

    23.6K citations

  3. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    47 h-index

    375 publications

    57.5K citations

  4. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    47 h-index

    241 publications

    44.2K citations

  5. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    44 h-index

    367 publications

    88.8K citations

  6. University of California, San Francisco

    San Francisco, United States

    42 h-index

    251 publications

    39K citations

  7. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

    42 h-index

    230 publications

    29.8K citations

  8. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    42 h-index

    262 publications

    26.7K citations

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  1. American Journal of Epidemiology

    AJE · 73 publications · 10.1K citations

    48

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  2. PubMed

    Repository · 137 publications · 8.8K citations

    45

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  3. PLoS ONE

    136 publications · 6.4K citations

    44

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  4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 36 publications · 9K citations

    33

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  5. Nature Communications

    34 publications · 4.7K citations

    32

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