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| Title |
Why Industry Propaganda and Political Interference Cannot Disguise the Inevitable Role Played by Human Exposure to Aluminum in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Including Alzheimer’s Disease
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Neurology, October 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fneur.2014.00212 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Christopher Exley |
| Abstract |
In the aluminum age, it is clearly unpalatable for aluminum, the globe's most successful metal, to be implicated in human disease. It is unpalatable because for approximately 100 years human beings have reaped the rewards of the most abundant metal of the Earth's crust without seriously considering the potential consequences for human health. The aluminum industry is a pillar of the developed and developing world and irrespective of the tyranny of human exposure to aluminum it cannot be challenged without significant consequences for businesses, economies, and governments. However, no matter how deep the dependency or unthinkable the withdrawal, science continues to document, if not too slowly, a burgeoning body burden of aluminum in human beings. Herein, I will make the case that it is inevitable both today and in the future that an individual's exposure to aluminum is impacting upon their health and is already contributing to, if not causing, chronic diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. This is the logical, if uncomfortable, consequence of living in the aluminum age. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 64 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 States | 12 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 11% |
| Malaysia | 3 | 5% |
| Netherlands | 3 | 5% |
| Germany | 2 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Finland | 1 | 2% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 3% |
| Unknown | 31 | 48% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 57 | 89% |
| Scientists | 4 | 6% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 65 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 64 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 22% |
| Researcher | 8 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 9% |
| Professor | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 16 | 25% |
| Unknown | 10 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 17% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 12% |
| Neuroscience | 6 | 9% |
| Chemistry | 6 | 9% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 9% |
| Other | 17 | 26% |
| Unknown | 11 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 104. 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 07 March 2024.
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#408,152
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#132
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#4,196
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#2
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Altmetric has tracked 25,476,463 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
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