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| Title |
Type 2 diabetes and health care costs in Latin America: exploring the need for greater preventive medicine
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, August 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-014-0136-z |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Armando Arredondo |
| Abstract |
Despite advances in medicine, health systems in Latin America are not coping with the challenges of chronic diseases. Incidence of disease and the economic burdens as a consequence have both increased in recent years. We have chosen Type 2 diabetes as an example to highlight the challenges posed by chronic diseases, in terms of the epidemiological transition and the economic burden of the demand for services to treat such problems. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 9 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chile | 3 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 33% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 11% |
| Brazil | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 1 | 11% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 22% |
| Scientists | 1 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 123 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 2 | 2% |
| Unknown | 121 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 22 | 18% |
| Researcher | 21 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 9% |
| Other | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 22 | 18% |
| Unknown | 26 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 40 | 33% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 11 | 9% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 6% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 18 | 15% |
| Unknown | 32 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 08 December 2014.
All research outputs
#2,685,407
of 25,311,095 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,741
of 3,982 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#26,507
of 242,596 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#28
of 65 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,311,095 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,982 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 45.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 56% of its peers.
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