Internet search volume for chest pain during the COVID-19 pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a reduction in hospital admissions for acute myocardial infarction. This manuscript presents the analysis of Google Trends meta-data and shows a marked spike in search volume for chest pain that is strongly correlated with COVID-19 case numbers in the Unit...

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Autores principales: Ciofani, Jonathan L, Han, Daniel, Allahwala, Usaid K, Asrress, Kaleab N, Bhindi, Ravinay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7525246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33010246
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2020.09.005
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description During the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a reduction in hospital admissions for acute myocardial infarction. This manuscript presents the analysis of Google Trends meta-data and shows a marked spike in search volume for chest pain that is strongly correlated with COVID-19 case numbers in the United States. This raises a concern that fear of contracting COVID-19 may be leading patients to self-triage using internet searches.
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spelling pubmed-75252462020-09-30 Internet search volume for chest pain during the COVID-19 pandemic Ciofani, Jonathan L Han, Daniel Allahwala, Usaid K Asrress, Kaleab N Bhindi, Ravinay Am Heart J Research Letter During the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a reduction in hospital admissions for acute myocardial infarction. This manuscript presents the analysis of Google Trends meta-data and shows a marked spike in search volume for chest pain that is strongly correlated with COVID-19 case numbers in the United States. This raises a concern that fear of contracting COVID-19 may be leading patients to self-triage using internet searches. Elsevier Inc. 2021-01 2020-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7525246/ /pubmed/33010246 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2020.09.005 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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