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| Title |
The prevalence of underweight, overweight, obesity and associated risk factors among school-going adolescents in seven African countries
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, August 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-887 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Taru Manyanga, Hesham El-Sayed, David Teye Doku, Jason R Randall |
| Abstract |
The burden caused by the coexistence of obesity and underweight in Low and Middle Income Countries is a challenge to public health. While prevalence of underweight among youth has been well documented in these countries, overweight, obesity and their associated risk factors are not well understood unlike in high income countries. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 418 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 2 | <1% |
| Ghana | 2 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 412 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 83 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 55 | 13% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 38 | 9% |
| Researcher | 25 | 6% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 25 | 6% |
| Other | 56 | 13% |
| Unknown | 136 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 109 | 26% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 82 | 20% |
| Social Sciences | 29 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 18 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 2% |
| Other | 33 | 8% |
| Unknown | 138 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 29 August 2014.
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#14,199,380
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Outputs from BMC Public Health
#10,311
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#121,469
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#198
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