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| Title |
Simvastatin is associated with a reduced incidence of dementia and Parkinson's disease
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, July 2007
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-5-20 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Benjamin Wolozin, Stanley W Wang, Nien-Chen Li, Austin Lee, Todd A Lee, Lewis E Kazis |
| Abstract |
Statins are a class of medications that reduce cholesterol by inhibiting 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase. Whether statins can benefit patients with dementia remains unclear because of conflicting results. We hypothesized that some of the confusion in the literature might arise from differences in efficacy of different statins. We used a large database to compare the action of several different statins to investigate whether some statins might be differentially associated with a reduction in the incidence of dementia and Parkinson's disease. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 185 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Brazil | 2 | 1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 177 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 32 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 18 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 12 | 6% |
| Other | 45 | 24% |
| Unknown | 39 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 50 | 27% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 22 | 12% |
| Neuroscience | 15 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12 | 6% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 10 | 5% |
| Other | 31 | 17% |
| Unknown | 45 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. 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 03 November 2022.
All research outputs
#1,160,613
of 23,033,713 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#813
of 3,456 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,938
of 68,006 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#2
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,033,713 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,456 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 43.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its peers.
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