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The global burden of liver disease: a challenge for methods and for public health

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, September 2014
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Title
The global burden of liver disease: a challenge for methods and for public health
Published in
BMC Medicine, September 2014
DOI 10.1186/s12916-014-0159-5
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Peter Byass

Abstract

New Global Burden of Disease estimates for liver cirrhosis, published in BMC Medicine, suggest that cirrhosis caused over a million deaths in 2010, with a further million due to liver cancer and acute hepatitis. Cause-specific mortality data were very sparse for some regions, particularly in Africa, with no relevant mortality data for 58/187 countries. Liver disease involves infectious, malignant and chronic aetiologies with overlapping symptoms. Where available mortality data come from verbal autopsies, separating different types of liver disease is challenging. Cirrhosis is a disease of rich and poor alike; key public health risk factors such as alcohol consumption play an important role. Risk-reduction strategies such as controlling the price of alcohol are being widely discussed. Since these estimates used alcohol consumption as a covariate, they cannot be used to explore relationships between alcohol consumption and cirrhosis mortality. There is hope: coming generations of adults will have been vaccinated against hepatitis B, and this is envisaged to reduce the burden of fatal liver disease. But more complete civil registration globally is needed to fully understand the burden of liver disease.Please see related article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/12/145/abstract.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Egypt 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 337 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 56 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 11%
Researcher 36 10%
Student > Bachelor 34 10%
Student > Postgraduate 26 8%
Other 61 18%
Unknown 94 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 104 30%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 24 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 19 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 16 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 4%
Other 54 16%
Unknown 112 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 395. 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 18 November 2022.
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