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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease in Indigenous Populations
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Pediatric clinics of North America, December 2009
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.pcl.2009.09.011 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Andrew C. Steer, Jonathan R. Carapetis |
| Abstract |
Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease are diseases of socioeconomic disadvantage. These diseases are common in developing countries and in Indigenous populations in industrialized countries. Clinicians who work with Indigenous populations need to maintain a high index of suspicion for the potential diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever, particularly in patients presenting with joint pain. Inexpensive medicines, such as aspirin, are the mainstay of symptomatic treatment of rheumatic fever; however, antiinflammatory treatment has no effect on the long-term rate of progression or severity of chronic valvular disease. The current focus of global efforts at prevention of rheumatic heart disease is on secondary prevention (regular administration of penicillin to prevent recurrent rheumatic fever), although primary prevention (timely treatment of streptococcal pharyngitis to prevent rheumatic fever) is also important in populations in which it is feasible. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 102 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Israel | 1 | <1% |
| Ecuador | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 99 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 20 | 20% |
| Researcher | 10 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 10% |
| Other | 9 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 9% |
| Other | 22 | 22% |
| Unknown | 22 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 52 | 51% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 6% |
| Psychology | 3 | 3% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 3 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 10 | 10% |
| Unknown | 25 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 December 2017.
All research outputs
#2,330,083
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Pediatric clinics of North America
#98
of 1,242 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,506
of 176,944 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Pediatric clinics of North America
#1
of 6 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,242 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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