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Safety of regular formoterol or salmeterol in children with asthma: an overview of Cochrane reviews

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, October 2012
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Title
Safety of regular formoterol or salmeterol in children with asthma: an overview of Cochrane reviews
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, October 2012
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd010005.pub2
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Authors

Christopher J Cates, Marta Oleszczuk, Elizabeth Stovold, L. Susan Wieland

Abstract

Two large surveillance studies in adults with asthma have found an increased risk of asthma-related mortality in those who took regular salmeterol as monotherapy in comparison to placebo or regular salbutamol. No similar sized surveillance studies have been carried out in children with asthma, and we remain uncertain about the comparative safety of regular combination therapy with either formoterol or salmeterol in children with asthma.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 2 1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Peru 1 <1%
Unknown 136 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 16%
Researcher 14 10%
Student > Bachelor 12 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 7%
Student > Postgraduate 8 6%
Other 18 13%
Unknown 56 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 41 29%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 9%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 6 4%
Social Sciences 4 3%
Psychology 4 3%
Other 9 6%
Unknown 64 46%
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 26 October 2016.
All research outputs
#6,265,283
of 25,457,297 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#7,568
of 11,499 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#46,196
of 193,432 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#144
of 224 outputs
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