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Title |
Diabetic retinopathy in sub-Saharan Africa: meeting the challenges of an emerging epidemic
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Published in |
BMC Medicine, July 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-11-157 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Philip I Burgess, Gerald Msukwa, Nicholas AV Beare |
Abstract |
Sub-Saharan Africa faces an epidemic of diabetes. Diabetes causes significant morbidity including visual loss from diabetic retinopathy, which is largely preventable. In this resource-poor setting, health systems are poorly organized to deliver chronic care with multiple system involvement. The specific skills and resources needed to manage diabetic retinopathy are scarce. The costs of inaction for individuals, communities and countries are likely to be high. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 6 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 3 | 50% |
Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 4 | 67% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 236 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Ethiopia | 1 | <1% |
Ghana | 1 | <1% |
Canada | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 233 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 42 | 18% |
Student > Postgraduate | 33 | 14% |
Researcher | 25 | 11% |
Student > Bachelor | 24 | 10% |
Other | 15 | 6% |
Other | 45 | 19% |
Unknown | 52 | 22% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 109 | 46% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 21 | 9% |
Social Sciences | 12 | 5% |
Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 6 | 3% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 2% |
Other | 30 | 13% |
Unknown | 53 | 22% |
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 11 October 2013.
All research outputs
#7,556,235
of 23,313,051 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,641
of 3,508 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#65,176
of 195,732 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#45
of 49 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,313,051 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 67th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,508 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 43.7. This one is in the 24th percentile – i.e., 24% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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