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Newborn screening for homocystinuria

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, October 2015
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Title
Newborn screening for homocystinuria
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Cochrane database of systematic reviews, October 2015
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd008840.pub4
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John H Walter, Nikki Jahnke, Tracey Remmington

Abstract

Homocystinuria is a rare inherited disorder due to a deficiency in cystathionine beta synthase. Individuals with this condition appear normal at birth but develop serious complications in childhood. Diagnosis and treatment started sufficiently early in life can effectively prevent or reduce the severity of these complications. This is an update of a previously published review. To determine if newborn population screening for the diagnosis of homocystinuria due to cystathionine beta synthase deficiency leads to clinical benefit compared to later clinical diagnosis. We searched the Cochrane Cystic Fibrosis and Genetic Disorders Group's Inborn Errors of Metabolism Trials Register.Date of the most recent search of the Inborn Errors of Metabolism Register: 08 June 2015. Randomised controlled trials and controlled clinical trials assessing the use of any neonatal screening test to diagnose infants with homocystinuria before the condition becomes clinically evident. Eligible studies compare a screened population versus a non-screened population. No studies were identified for inclusion in the review. No studies were identified for inclusion in the review. We were unable to identify eligible studies for inclusion in this review and hence it is not possible to draw any conclusions based on controlled studies; however, we are aware of uncontrolled case-series which support the efficacy of newborn screening for homocystinuria and its early treatment. Any future randomised controlled trial would need to be both multicentre and long term in order to provide robust evidence for or against screening and to allow a cost effectiveness analysis to be undertaken.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 96 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 18%
Student > Bachelor 13 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 6%
Researcher 6 6%
Other 20 21%
Unknown 27 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 25 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 5%
Psychology 4 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 3%
Other 14 15%
Unknown 35 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 13 October 2015.
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#3,815,396
of 25,457,858 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#6,323
of 11,842 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#49,628
of 287,075 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#179
of 289 outputs
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