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Incidence of Childhood Obesity in the United States

Overview of attention for article published in New England Journal of Medicine, January 2014
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Title
Incidence of Childhood Obesity in the United States
Published in
New England Journal of Medicine, January 2014
DOI 10.1056/nejmoa1309753
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Authors

Solveig A. Cunningham, Michael R. Kramer, K.M. Venkat Narayan

Abstract

Although the increased prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States has been documented, little is known about its incidence. We report here on the national incidence of obesity among elementary-school children.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 12 1%
Mexico 3 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 829 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 144 17%
Student > Bachelor 124 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 91 11%
Researcher 87 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 73 9%
Other 204 24%
Unknown 132 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 276 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 104 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 76 9%
Social Sciences 63 7%
Psychology 32 4%
Other 132 15%
Unknown 172 20%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 847. 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 01 June 2023.
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#19,128
of 23,978,283 outputs
Outputs from New England Journal of Medicine
#836
of 31,480 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#112
of 314,403 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New England Journal of Medicine
#5
of 297 outputs
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