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Risk of valvular heart disease associated with use of fenfluramine

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, June 2003
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Title
Risk of valvular heart disease associated with use of fenfluramine
Published in
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, June 2003
DOI 10.1186/1471-2261-3-5
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Authors

Paul N Hopkins, Gerald I Polukoff

Abstract

Estimates of excess risk of valvular heart disease among prior users of fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine have varied widely. Two major forms of bias appear to contribute to this variability and also result in a systematic under-estimation of risk. The first, a form of nondifferential misclassification, is the result of including background, prevalent cases among both exposed and unexposed persons in calculations of risk. The second bias results from not considering the relatively short duration of exposure to drugs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 21 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 5 24%
Professor 2 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 10%
Researcher 2 10%
Student > Master 2 10%
Other 4 19%
Unknown 4 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 38%
Neuroscience 2 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 5%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 5 24%
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Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 04 May 2021.
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#7,453,827
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#422
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#16,812
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#1
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