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Does initial breastfeeding lead to lower blood cholesterol in adult life? A quantitative review of the evidence

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, August 2008
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (84th percentile)

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blogs
1 blog
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
3 X users
patent
13 patents
reddit
1 Redditor
guideline
3 clinical guideline sources

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mendeley
167 Mendeley
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Indonesia 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 158 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 23 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 13%
Student > Master 21 13%
Student > Bachelor 11 7%
Professor 10 6%
Other 35 21%
Unknown 46 28%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 42 25%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 25 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 19 11%
Social Sciences 7 4%
Chemistry 4 2%
Other 14 8%
Unknown 56 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 40. 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 August 2026.
All research outputs
#1,316,277
of 34,545,128 outputs
Outputs from American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
#2,470
of 15,425 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,898
of 136,474 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
#15
of 98 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,545,128 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 15,425 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 41.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its peers.
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 136,474 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 98 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.