S. Preston

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The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. Population Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, July 1975.
S. Preston
2007International Journal of Epidemiology191 citations Open access
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Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries
E. Crimmins, S. Preston, B. Cohen
2011189 citations
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Nutritional supplementation in girls influences the growth of their children: prospective study in Guatemala.
J. Behrman, M. C. Calderón, S. Preston, J. Hoddinott +2 more
2009American Journal of Clinical Nutrition189 citations Open access
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Contribution of Obesity to International Differences in Life Expectancy
S. Preston, A. Stokes
2011American Journal of Public Health164 citations Open access
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The role of obesity in exceptionally slow US mortality improvement
S. Preston, Y. Vierboom, A. Stokes
2018Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America151 citations Open access
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International Differences in Mortality at Older Ages: Dimensions and Sources
E. Crimmins, S. Preston, B. Cohen
2010141 citations
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A new method for estimating smoking-attributable mortality in high-income countries.
S. Preston, D. Glei, J. Wilmoth
2010International Journal of Epidemiology140 citations Open access
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An integrated approach to cause-of-death analysis: cause-deleted life tables and decompositions of life expectancy
H. Beltrán-Sánchez, S. Preston, V. Canudas-Romo
2008Demographic Research140 citations Open access
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Deaths Attributable to Diabetes in the United States: Comparison of Data Sources and Estimation Approaches
A. Stokes, S. Preston
2017PLoS ONE138 citations Open access
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COVID-19 and excess mortality in the United States: A county-level analysis
A. Stokes, Dielle J. Lundberg, I. Elo, K. Hempstead +2 more
2021PLoS Medicine136 citations Open access
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Forecasting United States mortality using cohort smoking histories
Haidong Wang, S. Preston
2009Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America117 citations Open access
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Smoking and Reverse Causation Create an Obesity Paradox in Cardiovascular Disease
A. Stokes, S. Preston
2015Obesity112 citations Open access
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Levels and Trends
E. Crimmins, S. Preston, B. Cohen
201097 citations
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Obesity Paradox
S. Preston, A. Stokes
2014Epidemiology93 citations Open access
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Projecting the Effect of Changes in Smoking and Obesity on Future Life Expectancy in the United States
S. Preston, A. Stokes, N. Mehta, Bochen Cao
2013Demography93 citations Open access
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The Role of Physical Activity
E. Crimmins, S. Preston, B. Cohen
201189 citations
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Revealing the burden of obesity using weight histories
A. Stokes, S. Preston
2016Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America87 citations Open access
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COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity in US Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas, March 2020 to February 2022
Dielle J. Lundberg, E. Wrigley-Field, A. Cho, R. Raquib +12 more
2023JAMA Network Open82 citations Open access
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Estimates of the Association of Dementia With US Mortality Levels Using Linked Survey and Mortality Records
A. Stokes, J. Weiss, Dielle J. Lundberg, Wu-Bin Xie +3 more
2020JAMA Neurology81 citations Open access
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Sources of Population Aging in More and Less Developed Countries
S. Preston, A. Stokes
2012Population and Development Review81 citations Open access
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Obesity Progression Between Young Adulthood and Midlife and Incident Diabetes: A Retrospective Cohort Study of U.S. Adults
A. Stokes, J. Collins, Bethany F. Grant, R. Scamuffa +5 more
2018Diabetes Care74 citations Open access
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Modeling Obesity Histories in Cohort Analyses of Health and Mortality
S. Preston, N. Mehta, A. Stokes
2013Epidemiology73 citations Open access
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Estimating the impact of drug use on US mortality, 1999-2016
D. Glei, S. Preston
2020PLoS ONE70 citations Open access
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The Role of Obesity
E. Crimmins, S. Preston, B. Cohen
201166 citations
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The unequal burden of the Covid-19 pandemic: Capturing racial/ethnic disparities in US cause-specific mortality
Anneliese N. Luck, S. Preston, I. Elo, A. Stokes
2021SSM: Population Health64 citations Open access
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Trends in Non‐Hispanic White Mortality in the United States by Metropolitan‐Nonmetropolitan Status and Region, 1990–2016
I. Elo, Arun S. Hendi, J. Ho, Y. Vierboom +1 more
2019Population and Development Review63 citations Open access
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The changing contribution of smoking to educational differences in life expectancy: indirect estimates for Finnish men and women from 1971 to 2010
P. Martikainen, J. Ho, S. Preston, I. Elo
2012Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health60 citations Open access
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County-level estimates of excess mortality associated with COVID-19 in the United States
Calvin A. Ackley, Dielle J. Lundberg, Lei Ma, I. Elo +2 more
2021medRxiv55 citations Open access
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Rising geographic inequality in mortality in the United States
Y. Vierboom, S. Preston, Arun S. Hendi
2019SSM: Population Health55 citations Open access
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Rapid changes in key ruminal microbial populations during the induction of and recovery from diet-induced milk fat depression in dairy cows
D. Rico, S. Preston, J. Risser, K. Harvatine
2015British Journal of Nutrition54 citations Open access
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Effects of categorization and self-report bias on estimates of the association between obesity and mortality
S. Preston, Ezra Fishman, A. Stokes
2015Annals of Epidemiology53 citations Open access
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Are Major Behavioral and Sociodemographic Risk Factors for Mortality Additive or Multiplicative in Their Effects?
N. Mehta, S. Preston
2016Social Science & Medicine (1967)46 citations Open access
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Evaluation of Age Patterns of COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity From March 2020 to October 2021 in the US
I. Elo, Anneliese N. Luck, A. Stokes, K. Hempstead +2 more
2022JAMA Network Open45 citations Open access
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Increases in BMI and chronic pain for US adults in midlife, 1992 to 2016
A. Stokes, Wu-Bin Xie, Dielle J. Lundberg, K. Hempstead +5 more
2020SSM: Population Health45 citations Open access
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Monthly excess mortality across counties in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, March 2020 to February 2022
E. Paglino, Dielle J. Lundberg, Zhenwei Zhou, Joe A Wasserman +7 more
2023Science Advances43 citations Open access
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Intrinsic Growth Rates and Net Reproduction Rates in the Presence of Migration
S. Preston, Haidong Wang
200741 citations
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Excess mortality in the United States in the 21st century
S. Preston, Y. Vierboom
2021Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America40 citations Open access
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Mortality of American Troops in the Iraq War
E. Buzzell, S. Preston
200739 citations
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Ethnic and religious differentials in Bulgarian mortality, 1993–98
Iliana V. Kohler, S. Preston
2011Population studies37 citations Open access
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How Dangerous Is Obesity? Issues in Measurement and Interpretation
A. Stokes, S. Preston
2016Population and Development Review36 citations Open access
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Anatomy of a Municipal Triumph: New York City's Upsurge in Life Expectancy
S. Preston, I. Elo
2013Population and Development Review35 citations Open access
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Continued Increases in the Relative Risk of Death From Smoking
N. Mehta, S. Preston
2012American Journal of Public Health35 citations Open access
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Prevalence and Trends in Lifetime Obesity in the U.S., 1988–2014
A. Stokes, Y. Ni, S. Preston
2017American Journal of Preventive Medicine34 citations Open access
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Assessing the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on US Mortality: A County-Level Analysis
A. Stokes, Dielle J. Lundberg, I. Elo, K. Hempstead +2 more
2020medRxiv33 citations Open access
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The Dynamics of Diabetes Among Birth Cohorts in the U.S.
Ezra Fishman, A. Stokes, S. Preston
2014Diabetes Care33 citations Open access
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Association of Health Care Factors With Excess Deaths Not Assigned to COVID-19 in the US
A. Stokes, Dielle J. Lundberg, J. Bor, I. Elo +2 more
2021JAMA Network Open32 citations Open access
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Association of Weight Loss Between Early Adulthood and Midlife With All-Cause Mortality Risk in the US
Wu-Bin Xie, Dielle J. Lundberg, J. Collins, Stephen S. Johnston +5 more
2020JAMA Network Open32 citations Open access
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Obesity and Incident Prescription Opioid Use in the U.S., 2000-2015.
A. Stokes, Dielle J. Lundberg, K. Hempstead, K. M. Berry +2 more
2020American Journal of Preventive Medicine31 citations Open access
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Effect of Diabetes on Life Expectancy in the United States by Race and Ethnicity
S. Preston, Daesung Choi, I. Elo, A. Stokes
2018Biodemography and Social Biology26 citations Open access
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PANEL ON UNDERSTANDING DIVERGENT TRENDS IN LONGEVITY IN HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES
E. Crimmins, S. Preston, B. Cohen
201126 citations
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