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Mediterranean Diet Social Network Impact along 11 Years in the Major US Media Outlets: Thematic and Quantitative Analysis Using Twitter

Background: Media outlets influence social attitudes toward health. Thus, it is important that they share contents which promote healthy habits. The Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) is associated with lower cardiovascular disease risk. Analysis of tweets has become a tool for understanding perceptions o...

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Autores principales: Alvarez-Mon, Miguel Angel, Fernandez-Lazaro, Cesar I., Llavero-Valero, Maria, Alvarez-Mon, Melchor, Mora, Samia, Martínez-González, Miguel A., Bes-Rastrollo, Maira
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8775755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35055605
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020784
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author Alvarez-Mon, Miguel Angel
Fernandez-Lazaro, Cesar I.
Llavero-Valero, Maria
Alvarez-Mon, Melchor
Mora, Samia
Martínez-González, Miguel A.
Bes-Rastrollo, Maira
author_facet Alvarez-Mon, Miguel Angel
Fernandez-Lazaro, Cesar I.
Llavero-Valero, Maria
Alvarez-Mon, Melchor
Mora, Samia
Martínez-González, Miguel A.
Bes-Rastrollo, Maira
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description Background: Media outlets influence social attitudes toward health. Thus, it is important that they share contents which promote healthy habits. The Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) is associated with lower cardiovascular disease risk. Analysis of tweets has become a tool for understanding perceptions on health issues. Methods: We investigated tweets posted between January 2009 and December 2019 by 25 major US media outlets about MedDiet and its components as well as the retweets and likes generated. In addition, we measured the sentiment analysis of these tweets and their dissemination. Results: In total, 1608 tweets, 123,363 likes and 48,946 retweets about MedDiet or its components were analyzed. Dairy (inversely weighted in MedDiet scores) accounted for 45.0% of the tweets (723/1608), followed by nuts 19.7% (317/1608). MedDiet, as an overall dietary pattern, generated only 9.8% (157/1608) of the total tweets, while olive oil generated the least number of tweets. Twitter users’ response was quantitatively related to the number of tweets posted by these US media outlets, except for tweets on olive oil and MedDiet. None of the MedDiet components analyzed was more likely to be liked or retweeted than the MedDiet itself. Conclusions: The US media outlets analyzed showed reduced interest in MedDiet as a whole, while Twitter users showed greater interest in the overall dietary pattern than in its particular components.
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spelling pubmed-87757552022-01-21 Mediterranean Diet Social Network Impact along 11 Years in the Major US Media Outlets: Thematic and Quantitative Analysis Using Twitter Alvarez-Mon, Miguel Angel Fernandez-Lazaro, Cesar I. Llavero-Valero, Maria Alvarez-Mon, Melchor Mora, Samia Martínez-González, Miguel A. Bes-Rastrollo, Maira Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: Media outlets influence social attitudes toward health. Thus, it is important that they share contents which promote healthy habits. The Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) is associated with lower cardiovascular disease risk. Analysis of tweets has become a tool for understanding perceptions on health issues. Methods: We investigated tweets posted between January 2009 and December 2019 by 25 major US media outlets about MedDiet and its components as well as the retweets and likes generated. In addition, we measured the sentiment analysis of these tweets and their dissemination. Results: In total, 1608 tweets, 123,363 likes and 48,946 retweets about MedDiet or its components were analyzed. Dairy (inversely weighted in MedDiet scores) accounted for 45.0% of the tweets (723/1608), followed by nuts 19.7% (317/1608). MedDiet, as an overall dietary pattern, generated only 9.8% (157/1608) of the total tweets, while olive oil generated the least number of tweets. Twitter users’ response was quantitatively related to the number of tweets posted by these US media outlets, except for tweets on olive oil and MedDiet. None of the MedDiet components analyzed was more likely to be liked or retweeted than the MedDiet itself. Conclusions: The US media outlets analyzed showed reduced interest in MedDiet as a whole, while Twitter users showed greater interest in the overall dietary pattern than in its particular components. MDPI 2022-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8775755/ /pubmed/35055605 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020784 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Alvarez-Mon, Miguel Angel
Fernandez-Lazaro, Cesar I.
Llavero-Valero, Maria
Alvarez-Mon, Melchor
Mora, Samia
Martínez-González, Miguel A.
Bes-Rastrollo, Maira
Mediterranean Diet Social Network Impact along 11 Years in the Major US Media Outlets: Thematic and Quantitative Analysis Using Twitter
title Mediterranean Diet Social Network Impact along 11 Years in the Major US Media Outlets: Thematic and Quantitative Analysis Using Twitter
title_full Mediterranean Diet Social Network Impact along 11 Years in the Major US Media Outlets: Thematic and Quantitative Analysis Using Twitter
title_fullStr Mediterranean Diet Social Network Impact along 11 Years in the Major US Media Outlets: Thematic and Quantitative Analysis Using Twitter
title_full_unstemmed Mediterranean Diet Social Network Impact along 11 Years in the Major US Media Outlets: Thematic and Quantitative Analysis Using Twitter
title_short Mediterranean Diet Social Network Impact along 11 Years in the Major US Media Outlets: Thematic and Quantitative Analysis Using Twitter
title_sort mediterranean diet social network impact along 11 years in the major us media outlets: thematic and quantitative analysis using twitter
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8775755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35055605
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020784
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