Association of Search Engine Queries for Chest Pain With Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Online search for symptoms is common and may be useful in early identification of patients experiencing coronary heart disease (CHD) and in epidemiologically studying the disease.

Objective

To investigate the correlation of online symptom search for chest pain with disease prevalence of CHD.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective study used Google Trends, a publicly available tool that provides relative search frequency for queried terms, to find searches for chest pain from January 2010 to June 2017 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. For the United States, results were obtained by state. These data were compared with publicly available prevalence data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of CHD hospital

SUBMITTER: Senecal C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6583097 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature