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Mapping amyotrophic lateral sclerosis lake risk factors across northern New England

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Health Geographics, January 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#36 of 654)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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1 blog
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Title
Mapping amyotrophic lateral sclerosis lake risk factors across northern New England
Published in
International Journal of Health Geographics, January 2014
DOI 10.1186/1476-072x-13-1
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Authors

Nathan Torbick, Sarah Hession, Elijah Stommel, Tracie Caller

Abstract

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disease with a lifetime risk of developing as 1 in 700. Despite many recent discoveries about the genetics of ALS, the etiology of sporadic ALS remains largely unknown with gene-environment interaction suspected as a driver. Water quality and the toxin beta methyl-amino-alanine produced by cyanobacteria are suspected environmental triggers. Our objective was to develop an eco-epidemiological modeling approach to characterize the spatial relationships between areas of higher than expected ALS incidence and lake water quality risk factors derived from satellite remote sensing as a surrogate marker of exposure.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 1 <1%
Unknown 110 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 18%
Researcher 18 16%
Student > Master 16 14%
Other 8 7%
Student > Bachelor 7 6%
Other 21 19%
Unknown 21 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 17 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 16 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 5%
Engineering 6 5%
Other 27 24%
Unknown 25 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. 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 09 January 2022.
All research outputs
#1,203,811
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Health Geographics
#36
of 654 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,998
of 319,354 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Health Geographics
#1
of 12 outputs
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