Which medical research caught the public imagination in 2013?

Altmetric take a look back at 2013, with a review of the medical matters papers that received the most attention online - and the conversations that happened around them.

Diet and obesity were the most popular themes amongst medical papers this year. The most popular paper was one that reported the benefits of the "Mediterranean Diet". The success of this paper also carried over to another that reported on the virtues of eating nuts (which, incidentally, are part of the Mediterranean Diet).

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