↓ Skip to main content

Mortality and outcome of patients with brittle diabetes and recurrent ketoacidosis

Overview of attention for article published in The Lancet, September 1994
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (72nd percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (63rd percentile)

Mentioned by

policy
1 policy source
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

Citations

dimensions_citation
69 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
37 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Title
Mortality and outcome of patients with brittle diabetes and recurrent ketoacidosis
Published in
The Lancet, September 1994
DOI 10.1016/s0140-6736(94)92340-x
Pubmed ID
Authors

La Kent, G. Williams, G.V. Gill

Abstract

The long-term outlook of patients with brittle insulin-dependent diabetes is uncertain. We assessed the outcome of a group of young female patients with diabetes and recurrent ketoacidosis originally investigated in 1979-85 and reassessed after a mean of 10.5 (SD 1.4) years. 7 of the 33 patients could not be traced. 5 (19%) of the remaining 26 had died. Causes of death were not certain, but were probably ketoacidosis (2), hypoglycaemia (2), and renal failure (1). Of the 21 survivors, only 2 (10%) were still considered to have brittle diabetes. Diabetic complications were common (67%), and were more frequent than in a matched control group of stable patients with diabetes (25%). Brittle diabetic patients also had lower quality-of-life scores, more frequent psychosocial disruptions, and were on higher insulin doses (77 [39] vs 47 [15] U per day, p = 0.007) than controls. Pregnancy complications had occurred in 13 of 28 (46%) pregnancies in severely unstable patients compared with 2 of 27 (7%) in stable controls. Patients with brittle diabetes have a tendency to become more stable with time, but have a higher risk of death, more microvascular and pregnancy complications, and a poorer quality of life.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 37 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 3%
Portugal 1 3%
Germany 1 3%
Australia 1 3%
Unknown 33 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 11%
Student > Bachelor 4 11%
Other 3 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Other 9 24%
Unknown 11 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 41%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 14%
Psychology 2 5%
Linguistics 1 3%
Engineering 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 13 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 11 June 2016.
All research outputs
#5,446,994
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from The Lancet
#20,732
of 42,669 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,625
of 19,916 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Lancet
#36
of 117 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,374,647 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 75th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 42,669 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 67.9. This one is in the 46th percentile – i.e., 46% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 19,916 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 117 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% of its contemporaries.