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List of works by Richard Peto

10 vs 5 years of adjuvant tamoxifen: exclusion of 1/402 centres in ATLAS.

scientific article

10-year stroke prevention after successful carotid endarterectomy for asymptomatic stenosis (ACST-1): a multicentre randomised trial

scientific article

20-Year Risks of Breast-Cancer Recurrence after Stopping Endocrine Therapy at 5 Years

scientific article published on November 2017

21st-century hazards of smoking and benefits of cessation in the United States

scientific article published in January 2013

A nationally representative case-control study of smoking and death in India

scientific article

A phenome-wide association study of a lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 loss-of-function variant in 90 000 Chinese adults

scientific article published on 14 June 2016

A premature mortality target for the SDG for health is ageist - Authors' reply

scientific article

Adiposity and Blood Pressure in 110 000 Mexican Adults

scientific article published on 21 February 2017

Adiposity and risk of ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke in 0·5 million Chinese men and women: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published in June 2018

Adiposity in relation to age at menarche and other reproductive factors among 300 000 Chinese women: findings from China Kadoorie Biobank study.

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Adult and child malaria mortality in India: a nationally representative mortality survey

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Age-specific association between blood pressure and vascular and non-vascular chronic diseases in 0·5 million adults in China: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published in June 2018

Age-specific relevance of usual blood pressure to vascular mortality: a meta-analysis of individual data for one million adults in 61 prospective studies

scientific article (publication date: 14 December 2002)

Alcohol and cause-specific mortality in Russia: a retrospective case-control study of 48,557 adult deaths

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Alcohol and mortality in Russia: prospective observational study of 151,000 adults

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Alcohol consumption and vascular disease: other points to consider - Authors' reply

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Alcohol consumption in 0.5 million people from 10 diverse regions of China: prevalence, patterns and socio-demographic and health-related correlates

scientific article published on June 2013

Alcohol consumption in 0.5 million people from 10 diverse regions of China: prevalence, patterns and socio-demographic and health-related correlates

scientific article published on 14 September 2017

Alcohol drinking and overall and cause-specific mortality in China: nationally representative prospective study of 220 000 men with 15 years of follow-up ⬇️

scientific article published on May 16, 2012

Alcohol poisoning is a main determinant of recent mortality trends in Russia: evidence from a detailed analysis of mortality statistics and autopsies

scientific article

Analyses of cancer data from three ezetimibe trials

scientific article

Article makes simple errors and could cause unnecessary deaths

scientific article (publication date: 19 January 2002)

Aspirin and the stomach

Aspirin in the primary and secondary prevention of vascular disease: collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data from randomised trials

scientific article

Aspirin in the primary prevention of vascular disease – ATT secretariat's reply

scientific article published in The Lancet

Association Between Diabetes and Cause-Specific Mortality in Rural and Urban Areas of China

scientific article published on January 2017

Association of Blood Pressure With Cause-Specific Mortality in Mexican Adults

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Association of CETP Gene Variants With Risk for Vascular and Nonvascular Diseases Among Chinese Adults.

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

Association of Physical Activity With Risk of Major Cardiovascular Diseases in Chinese Men and Women

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Association of Random Plasma Glucose Levels With the Risk for Cardiovascular Disease Among Chinese Adults Without Known Diabetes

scientific article

Association of childhood smoking and adult mortality: prospective study of 120 000 Cuban adults

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Associations of General and Central Adiposity With Incident Diabetes in Chinese Men and Women

scientific article published on 3 January 2018

Asymptotically Efficient Rank Invariant Test Procedures

Avoiding 40% of the premature deaths in each country, 2010-30: review of national mortality trends to help quantify the UN sustainable development goal for health

scientific article published on 18 September 2014

Benefits of thrombolysis

BMJ article

Better health statistics are possible

scientific article published in The Lancet

Blood cholesterol and vascular mortality by age, sex, and blood pressure: a meta-analysis of individual data from 61 prospective studies with 55,000 vascular deaths

scientific article

Blood pressure in relation to general and central adiposity among 500 000 adult Chinese men and women

scientific article

Body mass index and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease-related mortality: a nationally representative prospective study of 220,000 men in China

scientific article published on 16 April 2010

Body mass index and mortality from ischaemic heart disease in a lean population: 10 year prospective study of 220,000 adult men.

scientific article published on 28 October 2005

Body mass index and mortality from lung cancer in smokers and nonsmokers: a nationally representative prospective study of 220,000 men in China

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

Body mass index and mortality in China: a 15-year prospective study of 220 000 men.

scientific article

Body mass index, blood pressure, and mortality from stroke: a nationally representative prospective study of 212,000 Chinese men

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Body mass index, diet, physical inactivity, and the incidence of dementia in 1 million UK women

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

Body-mass index and all-cause mortality - Authors' reply

scientific article published on 01 June 2017

Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

scientific article

Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 prospective studies

scientific article

Body-mass index, blood pressure, and cause-specific mortality in India: a prospective cohort study of 500 810 adults

scientific article published in July 2018

Breast cancer and abortion: collaborative reanalysis of data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 83?000 women with breast cancer from 16 countries

scientific article

Burden of hypertension and associated risks for cardiovascular mortality in Cuba: a prospective cohort study

scholarly article by Nurys Armas Rojas et al published February 2019 in Lancet Public Health

COPD and its association with smoking in the Mainland China: a cross-sectional analysis of 0.5 million men and women from ten diverse areas

scientific article

COVID-19 vaccine trials should seek worthwhile efficacy

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

Causal associations of blood lipids with risk of ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage in Chinese adults

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Childhood Smoking, Adult Cessation, and Cardiovascular Mortality: Prospective Study of 390 000 US Adults

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

China Kadoorie Biobank of 0.5 million people: survey methods, baseline characteristics and long-term follow-up ⬇️

scientific article published on September 21, 2011

Cigarette prices, smuggling, and deaths in France and Canada

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Cohort Profile: the Chennai prospective study of mortality among 500,000 adults in Tamil Nadu, South India

scientific article published on 17 May 2007

Cohort Profile: the Cuba Prospective Study

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Cohort profile: the Kadoorie Study of Chronic Disease in China (KSCDC)

scientific article published on 30 August 2005

Cohort profile: the Mexico City Prospective Study

scientific article

Commentary: verbal autopsy procedure for adult deaths

scientific article

Considerations in boosting COVID-19 vaccine immune responses

scientific article

Contrasting male and female trends in tobacco-attributed mortality in China: evidence from successive nationwide prospective cohort studies

scientific article

Conventional and genetic evidence on alcohol and vascular disease aetiology: a prospective study of 500 000 men and women in China

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Depression, anxiety, and prevalent diabetes in the Chinese population: findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank of 0.5 million people

scientific article published on 05 October 2013

Diabetes and Cause-Specific Mortality in Mexico City

scientific article

Differences among the coloured, white, black, and other South African populations in smoking-attributed mortality at ages 35-74 years: a case-control study of 481,640 deaths

scientific article published in August 2013

Does happiness itself directly affect mortality? The prospective UK Million Women Study

scientific article (publication date: February 2016)

Drugs and harm to society

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

Effect of diabetes duration and glycaemic control on 14-year cause-specific mortality in Mexican adults: a blood-based prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Effect of temperature and light on the stability of fat-soluble vitamins in whole blood over several days: implications for epidemiological studies

scientific article published on 22 April 2004

Effects of Aspirin for Primary Prevention in Persons with Diabetes Mellitus

scientific article published on 26 August 2018

Effects of cholesterol-lowering with simvastatin on stroke and other major vascular events in 20536 people with cerebrovascular disease or other high-risk conditions

scientific article

Effects of deworming on malnourished preschool children in India: an open-labelled, cluster-randomized trial

scientific article

Effects of folic acid supplementation on overall and site-specific cancer incidence during the randomised trials: meta-analyses of data on 50,000 individuals

scientific article

Effects of homocysteine-lowering with folic acid plus vitamin B12 vs placebo on mortality and major morbidity in myocardial infarction survivors: a randomized trial

scientific article published in June 2010

Effects of lowering homocysteine levels with B vitamins on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and cause-specific mortality: Meta-analysis of 8 randomized trials involving 37 485 individuals

scientific article

Effects of n-3 Fatty Acid Supplements in Diabetes Mellitus

scientific article published on 26 August 2018

Effects of obesity and smoking on U.S. life expectancy

scientific article published in March 2010

Effects of tranexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events, and blood transfusion in trauma patients with significant haemorrhage (CRASH-2): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article

Emerging tobacco-related cancer risks in China: A nationwide, prospective study of 0.5 million adults

scientific article

Esophageal cancer and body mass index: results from a prospective study of 220,000 men in China and a meta-analysis of published studies

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Estimating the Risks of Breast Cancer Radiotherapy: Evidence From Modern Radiation Doses to the Lungs and Heart and From Previous Randomized Trials

scientific article

Excess risk of major vascular diseases associated with airflow obstruction: a 9-year prospective study of 0.5 million Chinese adults.

scientific article published on 8 March 2018

Exhaled carbon monoxide and its associations with smoking, indoor household air pollution and chronic respiratory diseases among 512,000 Chinese adults

scientific article published on 20 September 2013

Extending the age range for breast screening in England: pilot study to assess the feasibility and acceptability of randomization

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

Fibrinogen and coronary heart disease: test of causality by 'Mendelian randomization'

scientific article published on 26 July 2006

Fresh Fruit Consumption and Major Cardiovascular Disease in China

scientific article published on April 2016

Fresh fruit consumption and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank.

scientific article published on 24 April 2017

Fresh fruit consumption in relation to incident diabetes and diabetic vascular complications: A 7-y prospective study of 0.5 million Chinese adults

scientific article

Gene-environment interactions in 7610 women with breast cancer: prospective evidence from the Million Women Study

scientific article

General and Abdominal Adiposity and Mortality in Mexico City: Prospective Study of 150 000 Adults

scientific article published on 13 August 2019

Global effects of smoking, of quitting, and of taxing tobacco

scientific article

Halving premature death

scientific article published in Science

Happiness, health, and mortality - Authors' reply

scientific article published in July 2016

Health Effects of Tobacco Use: Global Estimates and Projections

Heterogeneous relationships of squamous and basal cell carcinomas of the skin with smoking: the UK Million Women Study and meta-analysis of prospective studies

Homocysteine and Coronary Heart Disease: Meta-analysis of MTHFR Case-Control Studies, Avoiding Publication Bias ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: February 2012)

Hormone therapy and ovarian cancer - Authors' reply

scientific article published on 01 September 2015

Incidence of Breast Cancer and Its Subtypes in Relation to Individual and Multiple Low-Penetrance Genetic Susceptibility Loci ⬇️

scientific article published on July 28, 2010

Incidence of heart disease in 35,000 women treated with radiotherapy for breast cancer in Denmark and Sweden

scientific article published in August 2011

Intensive lowering of LDL cholesterol with 80 mg versus 20 mg simvastatin daily in 12 064 survivors of myocardial infarction: a double-blind randomised trial ⬇️

scientific article published on 13 November 2010

Interpretation of the evidence for the efficacy and safety of statin therapy

scientific article

Lack of Effect of Lowering LDL Cholesterol on Cancer: Meta-Analysis of Individual Data from 175,000 People in 27 Randomised Trials of Statin Therapy ⬇️

scientific article published on January 19, 2012

Large-scale evidence that the cardiotoxicity of smoking is not significantly modified by the apolipoprotein E epsilon2/epsilon3/epsilon4 genotype

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

Lipid-related genes and myocardial infarction in 4685 cases and 3460 controls: discrepancies between genotype, blood lipid concentrations, and coronary disease risk

scientific article published on 15 July 2004

Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Metabolites and Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Stroke.

scientific article published in February 2018

Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A2 Loss-of-Function Variant and Risk of Vascular Diseases in 90,000 Chinese Adults

scientific article published on January 2016

Long-term effects of continuing adjuvant tamoxifen to 10 years versus stopping at 5 years after diagnosis of oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer: ATLAS, a randomised trial

scientific article published on March 2013

Long-term mortality from heart disease and lung cancer after radiotherapy for early breast cancer: prospective cohort study of about 300,000 women in US SEER cancer registries

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

Low cholesterol and coronary heart disease: Authors' reply.

scientific article published in October 1991

Lung cancer in never smokers in the UK Million Women Study

scientific article

Lymphotoxin-alpha gene and risk of myocardial infarction in 6,928 cases and 2,712 controls in the ISIS case-control study

scientific article (publication date: July 2006)

MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study of cholesterol-lowering with simvastatin in 5963 people with diabetes: a randomised placebo-controlled trial

scientific article

Menopausal hormone therapy and 20-year breast cancer mortality

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

Meta-analysis of breast cancer outcomes in adjuvant trials of aromatase inhibitors versus tamoxifen

scientific article published on 30 November 2009

Mortality and recurrent vascular events after first incident stroke: a 9-year community-based study of 0·5 million Chinese adults

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Mortality from cardiovascular disease more than 10 years after radiotherapy for breast cancer: nationwide cohort study of 90 000 Swedish women

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Mortality in relation to alcohol consumption: a prospective study among male British doctors

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Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years' observations on male British doctors

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Mortality reduction from quitting smoking in Hong Kong: population-wide proportional mortality study

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Night Shift Work and Breast Cancer Incidence: Three Prospective Studies and Meta-analysis of Published Studies

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2016)

Opposite Associations of Aortic Aneurysm With Blood Glucose and With Diabetes Mellitus

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Outdoor temperature, blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease mortality among 23 000 individuals with diagnosed cardiovascular diseases from China

scientific article published on 16 February 2015

Parenthood and the risk of cardiovascular diseases among 0.5 million men and women: findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank

scientific article published in February 2017

Passive smoking and breast cancer in never smokers: prospective study and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 10 June 2008

Patterns and socio-demographic correlates of domain-specific physical activities and their associations with adiposity in the China Kadoorie Biobank study

scientific article

Peak flow as a predictor of cause-specific mortality in China: results from a 15-year prospective study of ~170,000 men.

scientific article published in June 2013

Physical Activity, Sedentary Leisure Time, Circulating Metabolic Markers, and Risk of Major Vascular Diseases

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

Physical activity and sedentary leisure time and their associations with BMI, waist circumference, and percentage body fat in 0.5 million adults: the China Kadoorie Biobank study ⬇️

scientific article published on January 30, 2013

Placebo-Controlled Trials of Covid-19 Vaccines - Why We Still Need Them

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

Population deworming every 6 months with albendazole in 1 million pre-school children in north India: DEVTA, a cluster-randomised trial ⬇️

scientific article published on March 14, 2013

Prevalence and correlates of airflow obstruction in ∼317,000 never-smokers in China

scientific article

Prospective study of one million deaths in India: rationale, design, and validation results

scientific article

Quality of primary health care in China: challenges and recommendations

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Regional variations in the prevalence and misdiagnosis of air flow obstruction in China: baseline results from a prospective cohort of the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB)

scientific article

Relationship between smoking and risk of esophageal cancer in 103 areas in China: a large-scale case-control study incorporated into a nationwide survey of mortality

scientific article published in February 2006

Reliable measurement of glycated hemoglobin in frozen blood samples: implications for epidemiologic studies

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

Repurposed Antiviral Drugs for Covid-19 - Interim WHO Solidarity Trial Results

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

Repurposed antiviral drugs for COVID-19 –interim WHO SOLIDARITY trial results

scientific article published on 15 October 2020

Response

scientific article published in April 2017

Risk of ischemic heart disease in women after radiotherapy for breast cancer

scientific article published in March 2013

Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies

scientific article

Risks and Population Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases Associated with Diabetes in China: A Prospective Study of 0.5 Million Adults

scientific article

Seasonal variation in blood pressure and its relationship with outdoor temperature in 10 diverse regions of China ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2012

Serum cotinine level as predictor of lung cancer risk

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Sex differences in hospital mortality following acute myocardial infarction in China: findings from a study of 45 852 patients in the COMMIT/CCS-2 study

scientific article published on January 2011

Smoking and liver cancer in China: case-control comparison of 36,000 liver cancer deaths vs. 17,000 cirrhosis deaths

scientific article published on October 2003

Smoking and mortality from tuberculosis and other diseases in India: retrospective study of 43000 adult male deaths and 35000 controls

scientific article published on August 2003

Smoking and smoking cessation in relation to risk of diabetes in Chinese men and women: a 9-year prospective study of 0·5 million people

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

Smoking counts: experience of implementing questions on smoking on official death certification systems

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Smoking, drinking and incident tuberculosis in rural India: population-based case-control study

scientific article published on 4 June 2009

Social inequalities in male mortality, and in male mortality from smoking: indirect estimation from national death rates in England and Wales, Poland, and North America

scientific article published in July 2006

Social inequalities, tobacco chewing, and cancer mortality in south India: a case-control analysis of 2,580 cancer deaths among non-smoking non-drinkers

scientific article published on 17 February 2012

Solid Fuel Use and Risks of Respiratory Diseases. A Cohort Study of 280,000 Chinese Never-Smokers

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Stability of plasma analytes after delayed separation of whole blood: implications for epidemiological studies

scientific article published in February 2003

Stabilization of homocysteine in unseparated blood over several days: a solution for epidemiological studies

scientific article published in March 2003

Stages of the cigarette epidemic on entering its second century

scientific article published in March 2012

Suicide rates in rural Tamil Nadu, South India: verbal autopsy of 39 000 deaths in 1997-98.

scientific article published on 14 February 2007

Tamoxifen therapy for patients with breast cancer - Authors' reply.

scientific article published in June 2013

Temporal trends of main reproductive characteristics in ten urban and rural regions of China: the China Kadoorie biobank study of 300 000 women

scientific article

The 21st century hazards of smoking and benefits of stopping: a prospective study of one million women in the UK ⬇️

scientific article published on October 27, 2012

The Affordable Medicines Facility--malaria: killing it slowly

scientific article published on 31 October 2012

The Burden of Hypertension and Associated Risk for Cardiovascular Mortality in China

scientific article published on 14 March 2016

The Causes of Cancer: Quantitative Estimates of Avoidable Risks of Cancer in the United States Today

article

The MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study: preliminary results.

scientific article published in January 2002

The Magic of Randomization versus the Myth of Real-World Evidence

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

The exon 1–8C/G SNP in the PSMA6 gene contributes only a small amount to the burden of myocardial infarction in 6946 cases and 2720 controls from a United Kingdom population

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The first generation in which many women began smoking – Authors' reply ⬇️

scientific article published on April 27, 2013

The joint effects of apolipoprotein B, apolipoprotein A1, LDL cholesterol, and HDL cholesterol on risk: 3510 cases of acute myocardial infarction and 9805 controls

scientific article published on 11 June 2009

The prevalence of chronic diseases and major disease risk factors at different ages among 150,000 men and women living in Mexico City: cross-sectional analyses of a prospective study

scientific article

Tobacco smoking and the risk of Parkinson disease: A 65-year follow-up of 30,000 male British doctors

scientific article published on 05 May 2020

Tobacco use in 3 billion individuals from 16 countries: an analysis of nationally representative cross-sectional household surveys

scientific article

Trust the Blinded Randomized Evidence That Statin Therapy Rarely Causes Symptomatic Side Effects

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UK cancer survival statistics

scientific article

Uncommon CHEK2 mis-sense variant and reduced risk of tobacco-related cancers: case control study

scientific article

Use of drug treatment for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in urban and rural communities of China: China Kadoorie Biobank Study of 0.5 million people

scientific article published on 28 December 2013

Verbal autopsy of 48 000 adult deaths attributable to medical causes in Chennai (formerly Madras), India

scientific article

Verbal autopsy of 80,000 adult deaths in Tamilnadu, South India

scientific article

Vitamin A supplementation every 6 months with retinol in 1 million pre-school children in north India: DEVTA, a cluster-randomised trial ⬇️

scientific article published on March 14, 2013

Vitamin A supplementation in Indian children - Authors' reply

scientific article published in August 2013

[The China Kadoorie Biobank: related methodology and baseline characteristics of the participants]

scientific article published on 01 March 2012

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