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| Title |
Variation in ultraviolet radiation and diabetes: evidence of an epigenetic effect that modulates diabetics’ lifespan
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| Published in |
Clinical Epigenetics, April 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1868-7083-5-5 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
George E Davis, Walter E Lowell |
| Abstract |
Published research has shown that month-of-birth variations modulate the incidence of adult human diseases. This article explores diabetes type 2 as one of those diseases. This study uses the death records of approximately 829,000 diabetics (approximately 90% were type-2) born before the year 1945 (and dying between 1979 and 2005) to show that variations in adult lifespan vary with ultraviolet radiation (UVR) at solar cycle peaks (MAX, approximately a three-year period) with less at non-peaks (MIN, approximately an eight-year period). The MAX minus MIN (in years) was our measure of sensitivity (for example, responsiveness) to long-term variations in UVR. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 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 States | 4 | 36% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 18% |
| Canada | 1 | 9% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 3 | 27% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 64% |
| Scientists | 3 | 27% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 20 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 19 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 25% |
| Researcher | 4 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 15% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 10% |
| Professor | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 2 | 10% |
| Unknown | 3 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 20% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 20% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 10% |
| Engineering | 2 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 3 | 15% |
| Unknown | 4 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 07 July 2013.
All research outputs
#2,310,222
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Outputs from Clinical Epigenetics
#144
of 1,446 outputs
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#18,668
of 213,438 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Epigenetics
#1
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