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| Title |
Trends and risk factors of hyperglycemia and diabetes among Kuwaiti adults: National Nutrition Surveillance Data from 2002 to 2009
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, February 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-13-103 |
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| Authors |
Faruk Ahmed, Carol Waslien, Mona A Al-Sumaie, Prasanna Prakash, Ahmad Allafi |
| Abstract |
Current prevalence estimates for diabetes in Arabian Gulf countries are some of the world's highest, yet regional trends and contributing factors are poorly documented. The present study was designed to determine temporal changes in the prevalence of impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and diabetes and associated factors in Kuwaiti adults. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 85 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 83 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 12 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 6% |
| Researcher | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 15 | 18% |
| Unknown | 31 | 36% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 23 | 27% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 2% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 11 | 13% |
| Unknown | 34 | 40% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 01 August 2016.
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#6,387,185
of 22,694,633 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#6,710
of 14,769 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#69,957
of 282,906 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#118
of 282 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,694,633 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 14,769 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 53% of its peers.
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