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Television viewing time and reduced life expectancy: a life table analysis

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Sports Medicine, September 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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25 news outlets
blogs
7 blogs
twitter
308 X users
facebook
34 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
googleplus
6 Google+ users
reddit
1 Redditor
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3 YouTube creators

Citations

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86 Dimensions

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Title
Television viewing time and reduced life expectancy: a life table analysis
Published in
British Journal of Sports Medicine, September 2012
DOI 10.1136/bjsports-2011-085662
Pubmed ID
Authors

J Lennert Veerman, Genevieve N Healy, Linda J Cobiac, Theo Vos, Elisabeth A H Winkler, Neville Owen, David W Dunstan

Abstract

Prolonged television (TV) viewing time is unfavourably associated with mortality outcomes, particularly for cardiovascular disease, but the impact on life expectancy has not been quantified. The authors estimate the extent to which TV viewing time reduces life expectancy in Australia, 2008.

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 2%
United States 3 2%
France 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 177 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 30 16%
Researcher 27 14%
Student > Master 27 14%
Student > Bachelor 22 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 18 9%
Other 41 21%
Unknown 27 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 43 22%
Sports and Recreations 26 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 16 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 7%
Psychology 11 6%
Other 35 18%
Unknown 47 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 517. 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 30 July 2023.
All research outputs
#49,291
of 25,504,429 outputs
Outputs from British Journal of Sports Medicine
#140
of 6,541 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#183
of 190,424 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Journal of Sports Medicine
#2
of 88 outputs
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