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Is low BMI Associated with Specific Drug Use Among Injecting Drug Users?

Overview of attention for article published in Substance Use & Misuse, October 2013
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Title
Is low BMI Associated with Specific Drug Use Among Injecting Drug Users?
Published in
Substance Use & Misuse, October 2013
DOI 10.3109/10826084.2013.841246
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Authors

Fairlie McIlwraith, Kim Steven Betts, Rebecca Jenkinson, Sophie Hickey, Lucinda Burns, Rosa Alati

Abstract

Body mass index (BMI) of a sample of people who regularly inject drugs (N = 781) was examined to gauge the impact of specific types of drug use. Cross-sectional interviews were undertaken in 2010 as part of a national monitoring program funded by the Australian Government. Latent class analysis identified three groups of drug users, with heroin users at 3.4 times the risk of being underweight compared with amphetamine users, and amphetamine users were at almost twice the odds of being obese compared with lower level morphine users. Nutrition should play a part in harm minimization.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 43 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 16%
Student > Bachelor 6 14%
Other 5 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Researcher 3 7%
Other 9 21%
Unknown 10 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 26%
Social Sciences 5 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 9%
Neuroscience 2 5%
Psychology 2 5%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 13 30%
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 23 September 2018.
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#12,884,409
of 22,725,280 outputs
Outputs from Substance Use & Misuse
#1,003
of 1,958 outputs
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#105,570
of 209,506 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Substance Use & Misuse
#12
of 34 outputs
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