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Cognitive function, social integration and mortality in a U.S. national cohort study of older adults

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Geriatrics, July 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (73rd percentile)

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Title
Cognitive function, social integration and mortality in a U.S. national cohort study of older adults
Published in
BMC Geriatrics, July 2009
DOI 10.1186/1471-2318-9-33
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Authors

Thomas O Obisesan, RF Gillum

Abstract

Prior research suggests an interaction between social networks and Alzheimer's disease pathology and cognitive function, all predictors of survival in the elderly. We test the hypotheses that both social integration and cognitive function are independently associated with subsequent mortality and there is an interaction between social integration and cognitive function as related to mortality in a national cohort of older persons.

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Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 51 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 51 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 18%
Student > Master 9 18%
Researcher 8 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 8%
Student > Postgraduate 3 6%
Other 9 18%
Unknown 9 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 14 27%
Psychology 9 18%
Social Sciences 5 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 6%
Neuroscience 3 6%
Other 6 12%
Unknown 11 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 11 July 2010.
All research outputs
#4,677,977
of 22,709,015 outputs
Outputs from BMC Geriatrics
#1,206
of 3,144 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#20,189
of 110,366 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Geriatrics
#6
of 13 outputs
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