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Longitudinal analysis of the association between removal of dental amalgam, urine mercury and 14 self-reported health symptoms

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Health, November 2014
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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 (92nd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (73rd percentile)

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Title
Longitudinal analysis of the association between removal of dental amalgam, urine mercury and 14 self-reported health symptoms
Published in
Environmental Health, November 2014
DOI 10.1186/1476-069x-13-95
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Authors

Jennifer D Zwicker, Daniel J Dutton, John Charles Herbert Emery

Abstract

Mercury vapor poses a known health risk with no clearly established safe level of exposure. Consequently there is debate over whether the level of prolonged exposure to mercury vapor from dental amalgam fillings, combining approximately 50% mercury with other metals, is sufficiently high to represent a risk to health. The objective of our study is to determine if mercury exposure from amalgam fillings is associated with risk of adverse health effects.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 3%
Australia 1 1%
Austria 1 1%
Unknown 66 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 14 20%
Student > Master 9 13%
Other 7 10%
Student > Postgraduate 7 10%
Researcher 5 7%
Other 14 20%
Unknown 14 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 28 40%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 11%
Environmental Science 7 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 3%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 16 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. 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 01 April 2022.
All research outputs
#2,027,093
of 24,549,201 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Health
#402
of 1,563 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,032
of 373,028 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Health
#12
of 42 outputs
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