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Obesity in primary care: prevention, management and the paradox

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, August 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
Obesity in primary care: prevention, management and the paradox
Published in
BMC Medicine, August 2014
DOI 10.1186/1741-7015-12-149
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Authors

David Haslam

Abstract

Government and societal efforts to combat obesity are aimed at prevention, although there is a generation for whom excess weight is the rule rather than the exception. Although measures to prevent a worsening of the current epidemic are important, management of obesity must also be prioritised. Obesity management is beset with problems ranging from attitudinal to clinical and pharmacological, and the individualisation of therapy.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Portugal 1 2%
Unknown 60 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 14 23%
Student > Bachelor 9 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 10%
Other 6 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 8%
Other 11 18%
Unknown 11 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 28 45%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 13%
Psychology 5 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Neuroscience 2 3%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 12 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 28 August 2014.
All research outputs
#3,945,985
of 22,761,738 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,987
of 3,413 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#40,538
of 236,352 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#43
of 69 outputs
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