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| Title |
Tackling overweight and obesity: does the public health message match the science?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, February 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-11-41 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Katherine Hafekost, David Lawrence, Francis Mitrou, Therese A O'Sullivan, Stephen R Zubrick |
| Abstract |
Despite the increasing understanding of the mechanisms relating to weight loss and maintenance, there are currently no validated public health interventions that are able to achieve sustained long-term weight loss or to stem the increasing prevalence of obesity in the population. We aimed to examine the models of energy balance underpinning current research about weight-loss intervention from the field of public health, and to determine whether they are consistent with the model provided by basic science. EMBASE was searched for papers published in 2011 on weight-loss interventions. We extracted details of the population, nature of the intervention, and key findings for 27 articles. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 74 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 12 | 16% |
| Netherlands | 10 | 14% |
| Saudi Arabia | 8 | 11% |
| United States | 8 | 11% |
| Canada | 3 | 4% |
| Australia | 3 | 4% |
| Spain | 2 | 3% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |
| Ireland | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 4 | 5% |
| Unknown | 22 | 30% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 44 | 59% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 15 | 20% |
| Scientists | 13 | 18% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 173 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Philippines | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 165 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 34 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 25 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 24 | 14% |
| Researcher | 14 | 8% |
| Other | 13 | 8% |
| Other | 34 | 20% |
| Unknown | 29 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 45 | 26% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 24 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 20 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 16 | 9% |
| Psychology | 13 | 8% |
| Other | 23 | 13% |
| Unknown | 32 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 73. 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 08 January 2019.
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#592,136
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#433
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#3,770
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#12
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So far Altmetric has tracked 4,067 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 45.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
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