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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

The medical use of cannabis for reducing morbidity and mortality in patients with HIV/AIDS

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, April 2013
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Title
The medical use of cannabis for reducing morbidity and mortality in patients with HIV/AIDS
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, April 2013
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd005175.pub3
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Authors

Elizabeth E Lutge, Andy Gray, Nandi Siegfried

Abstract

The use of cannabis (marijuana) or of its psychoactive ingredient delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) as a medicine has been highly contested in many settings.There have been claims that smoked or ingested cannabis, either in its natural form or artificial form (pharmaceutically manufactured drug such as dronabinol), improves the appetites of people with AIDS, results in weight gain and lifts mood, thus improving the quality of life.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 476 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 77 16%
Researcher 65 14%
Student > Bachelor 58 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 41 9%
Student > Postgraduate 36 7%
Other 85 18%
Unknown 119 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 144 30%
Psychology 33 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 30 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 27 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 5%
Other 82 17%
Unknown 142 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 123. 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 17 September 2023.
All research outputs
#357,562
of 26,367,306 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#571
of 13,215 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,287
of 206,582 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#13
of 263 outputs
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