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Heated indoor swimming pools, infants, and the pathogenesis of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a neurogenic hypothesis

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Health, October 2011
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Title
Heated indoor swimming pools, infants, and the pathogenesis of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a neurogenic hypothesis
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Environmental Health, October 2011
DOI 10.1186/1476-069x-10-86
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Marianne E McMaster

Abstract

In a case-control study a statistically significant association was recorded between the introduction of infants to heated indoor swimming pools and the development of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). In this paper, a neurogenic hypothesis is formulated to explain how toxins produced by chlorine in such pools may act deleteriously on the infant's immature central nervous system, comprising brain and spinal cord, to produce the deformity of AIS.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Nigeria 1 2%
Unknown 51 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 19%
Student > Master 5 10%
Other 4 8%
Researcher 3 6%
Other 9 17%
Unknown 10 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 31%
Sports and Recreations 10 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 6%
Environmental Science 3 6%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 9 17%
Attention Score in Context

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 17 February 2015.
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#7,409,093
of 22,653,392 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Health
#816
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Outputs of similar age
#45,182
of 132,933 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Health
#17
of 24 outputs
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