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A community programme to reduce salt intake and blood pressure in Ghana [ISRCTN88789643]

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, January 2006
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (80th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

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Title
A community programme to reduce salt intake and blood pressure in Ghana [ISRCTN88789643]
Published in
BMC Public Health, January 2006
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-6-13
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Authors

Francesco P Cappuccio, Sally M Kerry, Frank B Micah, Jacob Plange-Rhule, John B Eastwood

Abstract

In Africa hypertension is common and stroke is increasing. Detection, treatment and control of high blood pressure (BP) is limited. BP can be lowered by reducing salt intake. In Africa salt is added to the food by the consumer, as processed food is rare. A population-wide approach with programmes based on health education and promotion is thus possible.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 220 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Ghana 2 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 217 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 40 18%
Student > Bachelor 26 12%
Student > Postgraduate 24 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 10%
Researcher 20 9%
Other 41 19%
Unknown 47 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 68 31%
Nursing and Health Professions 26 12%
Social Sciences 16 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 3%
Other 37 17%
Unknown 54 25%
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 03 July 2015.
All research outputs
#5,907,715
of 24,393,299 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#5,792
of 16,119 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,150
of 161,561 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#8
of 27 outputs
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