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Temporal Trends and Interest in Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring Over Time: An Infodemiology Study
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate interest in coronary artery calcium (CAC) among the general public during the past 17 years and to compare trends with real-world data on number of CAC procedures performed. METHODS: We used Google Trends, a publicly available database, to access search query data in a systema...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8105517/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33997641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2021.02.010 |
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author | Dzaye, Omar Berning, Philipp Adelhoefer, Siegfried Duebgen, Matthias Blankstein, Ron Mahesh, Mahadevappa Nasir, Khurram Blumenthal, Roger S. Mortensen, Martin Bødtker Blaha, Michael J. |
author_facet | Dzaye, Omar Berning, Philipp Adelhoefer, Siegfried Duebgen, Matthias Blankstein, Ron Mahesh, Mahadevappa Nasir, Khurram Blumenthal, Roger S. Mortensen, Martin Bødtker Blaha, Michael J. |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To evaluate interest in coronary artery calcium (CAC) among the general public during the past 17 years and to compare trends with real-world data on number of CAC procedures performed. METHODS: We used Google Trends, a publicly available database, to access search query data in a systematic and quantitative fashion to search for CAC-related key terms. Search terms included calcium test, heart score, calcium score, coronary calcium, and calcium test score. We accessed Google Trends in January 2021 and analyzed data from 2004 to 2020. RESULTS: From 2004 to December 31, 2020, CAC-related search interest (in relative search volume) increased continually worldwide (+201.9%) and in the United States (+354.8%). Three main events strongly influenced search interest in CAC: reports of a CAC scan of the president of the United States led to a transient 10-fold increase in early January 2018. American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guideline release led to a sustained increase, and lockdown after the global pandemic due to COVID-19 led to a transient decrease. Real-world data on performed CAC scans showed an increase between 2006 and 2017 (+200.0%); during the same time period, relative search volume for CAC-related search terms increased in a similar pattern (+70.6%-1511.1%). For the search term coronary calcium scan near me, a potential representative of active online search for CAC scanning, we found a +28.8% increase in 2020 compared with 2017. CONCLUSION: Google Trends, a valuable tool for assessing public interest in health-related topics, suggests increased overall interest in CAC during the last 17 years that mirrors real-world usage data. Increased interest is seemingly linked to reports of CAC testing in world leaders and endorsement in major guidelines. |
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spelling | pubmed-81055172021-05-14 Temporal Trends and Interest in Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring Over Time: An Infodemiology Study Dzaye, Omar Berning, Philipp Adelhoefer, Siegfried Duebgen, Matthias Blankstein, Ron Mahesh, Mahadevappa Nasir, Khurram Blumenthal, Roger S. Mortensen, Martin Bødtker Blaha, Michael J. Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes Original Article OBJECTIVE: To evaluate interest in coronary artery calcium (CAC) among the general public during the past 17 years and to compare trends with real-world data on number of CAC procedures performed. METHODS: We used Google Trends, a publicly available database, to access search query data in a systematic and quantitative fashion to search for CAC-related key terms. Search terms included calcium test, heart score, calcium score, coronary calcium, and calcium test score. We accessed Google Trends in January 2021 and analyzed data from 2004 to 2020. RESULTS: From 2004 to December 31, 2020, CAC-related search interest (in relative search volume) increased continually worldwide (+201.9%) and in the United States (+354.8%). Three main events strongly influenced search interest in CAC: reports of a CAC scan of the president of the United States led to a transient 10-fold increase in early January 2018. American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guideline release led to a sustained increase, and lockdown after the global pandemic due to COVID-19 led to a transient decrease. Real-world data on performed CAC scans showed an increase between 2006 and 2017 (+200.0%); during the same time period, relative search volume for CAC-related search terms increased in a similar pattern (+70.6%-1511.1%). For the search term coronary calcium scan near me, a potential representative of active online search for CAC scanning, we found a +28.8% increase in 2020 compared with 2017. CONCLUSION: Google Trends, a valuable tool for assessing public interest in health-related topics, suggests increased overall interest in CAC during the last 17 years that mirrors real-world usage data. Increased interest is seemingly linked to reports of CAC testing in world leaders and endorsement in major guidelines. Elsevier 2021-04-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8105517/ /pubmed/33997641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2021.02.010 Text en © 2021 [Author/Employing Institution] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Original Article Dzaye, Omar Berning, Philipp Adelhoefer, Siegfried Duebgen, Matthias Blankstein, Ron Mahesh, Mahadevappa Nasir, Khurram Blumenthal, Roger S. Mortensen, Martin Bødtker Blaha, Michael J. Temporal Trends and Interest in Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring Over Time: An Infodemiology Study |
title | Temporal Trends and Interest in Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring Over Time: An Infodemiology Study |
title_full | Temporal Trends and Interest in Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring Over Time: An Infodemiology Study |
title_fullStr | Temporal Trends and Interest in Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring Over Time: An Infodemiology Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Temporal Trends and Interest in Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring Over Time: An Infodemiology Study |
title_short | Temporal Trends and Interest in Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring Over Time: An Infodemiology Study |
title_sort | temporal trends and interest in coronary artery calcium scoring over time: an infodemiology study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8105517/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33997641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2021.02.010 |
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