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Overweight and obesity in urban Africa: A problem of the rich or the poor?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, December 2009
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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5 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
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3 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages

Citations

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315 Dimensions

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604 Mendeley
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Title
Overweight and obesity in urban Africa: A problem of the rich or the poor?
Published in
BMC Public Health, December 2009
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-9-465
Pubmed ID
Authors

Abdhalah K Ziraba, Jean C Fotso, Rhoune Ochako

Abstract

Obesity is a well recognized risk factor for various chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The aim of this study was to shed light on the patterns of overweight and obesity in sub-Saharan Africa, with special interest in differences between the urban poor and the urban non-poor. The specific goals were to describe trends in overweight and obesity among urban women; and examine how these trends vary by education and household wealth.

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 <1%
Nigeria 3 <1%
South Africa 2 <1%
Cameroon 1 <1%
Morocco 1 <1%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
Ethiopia 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Other 5 <1%
Unknown 585 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 141 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 72 12%
Researcher 67 11%
Student > Postgraduate 59 10%
Student > Bachelor 51 8%
Other 84 14%
Unknown 130 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 159 26%
Social Sciences 72 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 62 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 58 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 16 3%
Other 80 13%
Unknown 157 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 57. 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 05 March 2024.
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#749,231
of 25,397,764 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#772
of 17,539 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,567
of 173,429 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#1
of 68 outputs
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