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Diabetes mellitus type 2 in urban Ghana: characteristics and associated factors

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, March 2012
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Title
Diabetes mellitus type 2 in urban Ghana: characteristics and associated factors
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BMC Public Health, March 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-12-210
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Authors

Ina Danquah, George Bedu-Addo, Karl-Johann Terpe, Frank Micah, Yaw A Amoako, Yaw A Awuku, Ekkehart Dietz, Markus van der Giet, Joachim Spranger, Frank P Mockenhaupt

Abstract

Sub-Saharan Africa faces a rapid spread of diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2) but its potentially specific characteristics are inadequately defined. In this hospital-based study in Kumasi, Ghana, we aimed at characterizing clinical, anthropometric, socio-economic, nutritional and behavioural parameters of DM2 patients and at identifying associated factors.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Ghana 5 1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 492 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 98 20%
Student > Master 81 16%
Student > Postgraduate 44 9%
Researcher 38 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 7%
Other 64 13%
Unknown 137 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 132 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 90 18%
Social Sciences 26 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 20 4%
Other 62 12%
Unknown 148 30%
Attention Score in Context

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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 25 March 2012.
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#14,725,323
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Outputs from BMC Public Health
#10,806
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#99,116
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#136
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