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| Title |
The body politic: the relationship between stigma and obesity-associated disease
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, April 2008
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-8-128 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Peter Muennig |
| Abstract |
It is commonly believed that the pathophysiology of obesity arises from adiposity. In this paper, I forward a complementary explanation; this pathophysiology arises not from adiposity alone, but also from the psychological stress induced by the social stigma associated with being obese. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 46 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 10 | 22% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 7% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 28 | 61% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 38 | 83% |
| Scientists | 3 | 7% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 4% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 4% |
| Unknown | 1 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 216 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 207 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 35 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 32 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 31 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 18 | 8% |
| Other | 15 | 7% |
| Other | 39 | 18% |
| Unknown | 46 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 56 | 26% |
| Social Sciences | 32 | 15% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 29 | 13% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 7% |
| Arts and Humanities | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 23 | 11% |
| Unknown | 54 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 57. 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 25 December 2023.
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#750,927
of 25,658,139 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#779
of 17,760 outputs
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#1,401
of 93,656 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#2
of 49 outputs
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