ArticleAnnals of family medicine2016
Seasonality of Ankle Swelling: Population Symptom Reporting Using Google Trends.
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- Assessing the Methods, Tools, and Statistical Approaches in Google Trends Research: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Pooled it
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- Seasonal and Weather Effects on Rheumatoid Arthritis: Myth or Reality?Pain research & management · 2020Article
- Quality of warfarin management in primary care: Determining the stability of international normalized ratios using a nationally representative prospective cohort.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2019Article
- Seasonality of bruxism: evidence from Google Trends.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2019Observational
- Seasonal variation in the internet searches for gout: an ecological study.Clinical rheumatology · 2019Observational
- Chronic lifestyle diseases display seasonal sensitive comorbid trend in human population evidence from Google Trends.PloS one · 2018Article
- Seasonality of cellulitis: evidence from Google Trends.Infection and drug resistance · 2018Article
- Warmer Weather as a Risk Factor for Cellulitis: A Population-based Investigation.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2017Article
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Abstract
In our experience, complaints of ankle swelling are more common in summer, typically from patients with no obvious cardiovascular disease. Surprisingly, this observation has never been reported. To objectively establish this phenomenon, we sought evidence of seasonality in the public's Internet searches for ankle swelling. Our data, obtained from Google Trends, consisted of all related Google searches in the United States from January 4, 2004, to January 26, 2016. Consistent with our expectations and confirmed by similar data for Australia, Internet searches for information on ankle swelling are highly seasonal (highest in midsummer), with seasonality explaining 86% of search volume variability.
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