Increasing utility of Google Trends in monitoring cardiovascular disease
| Autor: | Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Conor Senecal, Madeline K. Mahowald, Lilach O. Lerman, Amir Lerman |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Digital Health Digital Health, Vol 7 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2055-2076 |
| Popis: | Introduction Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Patients are increasingly using internet search to find health-related information, including searches for cardiovascular diseases and risk factors. We sought to evaluate the change in the state by state correlation of cardiovascular disease and risk factors with Google Trends search volumes. Methods Data on cardiovascular disease hospitalizations and risk factor prevalence were obtained from the publically available Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website from 2006 to 2018. Google Trends data were obtained for matching conditions and time periods. Simple linear regression was performed to evaluate for an increase in correlation over time. Results Hospitalizations for six separate cardiovascular disease conditions showed moderate to strong correlation with online search data in the last period studied (heart failure (0.58, p Conclusion The prevalence of and hospitalizations for cardiovascular conditions in the United States strongly correlate with online search volumes in the United States when analyzed by state. This relationship has progressively strengthened or been strong and stable over recent years for these conditions. Google Trends represents an increasingly valuable tool for evaluating the burden of cardiovascular disease and risk factors in the United States. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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