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| Title |
Health surveillance of deployed military personnel occasionally leads to unexpected findings
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, October 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-10-126 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Alexander C McFarlane |
| Abstract |
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be caused by life threatening illness, such as cancer and coronary events. The study by Forbes et al. made the unexpected finding that military personnel evacuation with medical illness have similar rates of PTSD to those evacuated with combat injuries. It may be that the illness acts as a nonspecific stressor that interacts with combat exposures to increase the risk of PTSD. Conversely, the inflammatory consequence of systemic illness may augment the effects to traumatic stress and facilitate the immunological abnormalities that are now being associated with PTSD and depression. The impact of the stress on cytokine systems and their role in the onset of PTSD demands further investigation. Military personnel evacuated due to physical illness require similar screening and monitoring for the risk of PTSD to those injured who are already known to be at high risk. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 6 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 2 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 17% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 23 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 23 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 30% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 13% |
| Other | 2 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 9% |
| Researcher | 2 | 9% |
| Other | 2 | 9% |
| Unknown | 5 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 8 | 35% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 13% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 9% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 8 | 35% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 10 December 2012.
All research outputs
#6,755,067
of 22,684,168 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,451
of 3,398 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#51,666
of 183,365 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#45
of 58 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,684,168 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 69th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,398 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 43.6. This one is in the 27th percentile – i.e., 27% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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