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Smoking and HIV: time for a change?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, January 2013
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Title
Smoking and HIV: time for a change?
Published in
BMC Medicine, January 2013
DOI 10.1186/1741-7015-11-16
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Authors

Nicola Petrosillo, Stefania Cicalini

Abstract

Cigarette smoking is one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in the general population, and is a well-recognized risk factor for a variety of serious clinical conditions, including cardiovascular diseases, pulmonary diseases and cancers. Smoking-related morbidity and mortality are of particular concern in patients with HIV infection, as the prevalence of current cigarette smoking is higher among HIV-positive patients than among the general population. In a study by De et al., it has been evidenced that smoking is a risk factor for bacterial pneumonia in HIV-positive patients and smoking cessation reduces this risk. HIV-positive patients who smoke have significantly increased mortality compared to those who have never smoked, indicating that smoking confers different mortality risk in HIV-positive as compared to HIV-negative patients, and lifestyle-related factors may pose a greater hazard to long-term survival of HIV-positive patients than those related to the HIV infection per se. The high prevalence of smoking among HIV population, the many health risks that can result from this behavior, and the proven efficacy of cessation interventions in HIV-positive patients should encourage HIV care providers to make smoking cessation a high priority.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 49 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 18%
Researcher 9 18%
Other 5 10%
Student > Bachelor 4 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 6%
Other 7 14%
Unknown 12 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 41%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 4%
Computer Science 2 4%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 15 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 January 2013.
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#13,880,538
of 22,693,205 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,848
of 3,400 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#162,301
of 279,188 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#73
of 77 outputs
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