Google Trends on Obesity, Smoking and Alcoholism: Global and Country-Specific Interest
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
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- Alcohol keywords: “Alcohol”, “beer”, “drinking”, “cerveza”, “botellón”, “alcol”, and “birra”.
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- Smoking keywords: “Smoking”, “tobacco”, “cigarette”, “fumar”, “cigarro”, “fumo”, and “tabacco”
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- Obesity keywords: “Obesity”, “fast food”, “calories”, “obesidad”, “calorías”, “sedentarismo”, and “calorie”.
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Categories | English Terms | Spanish Terms | Italian Terms |
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Alcohol keywords | Alcohol, beer, drinking, binge drinking | Alcohol, cerveza, borracho, botellón | Alcol, birra, ubriaco, binge drinking |
Smoking keywords | Smoking, tobacco, cigarette, vaping | Fumar, tabaco, cigarro, vapeo | Fumo, tabacco, sigaretta, svapo |
Obesity keywords | Obesity, fast food, calories, sedentarism | Obesidad, comida basura, calorías, sedentarismo | Obesità, fast food, calorie, sedentarietà |
Categories | RSVs for Alcohol | RSVs for Smoking | RSVs for Obesity |
---|---|---|---|
RSVs for alcohol | 1 | −0.728 * | 0.327 * |
RSVs for smoking | −0.728 * | 1 | −0.217 * |
RSVs for obesity | 0.327 * | −0.217 * | 1 |
Obesity | Italy–GT | Spain–GT | UK–GT | USA–GT |
---|---|---|---|---|
Italy–WHO | 0.848 ** | |||
Spain–WHO | 0.659 * | |||
UK–WHO | 0.824 ** | |||
USA–WHO | 0.044 | |||
Smoking | ||||
Italy–WHO | −0.829 * | |||
Spain–WHO | −0.943 ** | |||
UK–WHO | 0.371 | |||
USA–WHO | 0.486 | |||
Alcohol | ||||
Italy–WHO | −0.066 | |||
Spain–WHO | −0.269 | |||
UK–WHO | −0.622 * | |||
USA–WHO | 0.748 ** |
ENGLISH | RSVs for Alcohol | RSVs for Smoking | RSVs for Obesity |
---|---|---|---|
RSVs for alcohol | 1 | −0.696 * | 0.254 * |
RSVs for smoking | −0.696 * | 1 | -0.068 |
RSVs for obesity | 0.254 * | −0.068 | 1 |
SPANISH | |||
RSVs for alcohol | 1 | -0.585 * | 0.421 * |
RSVs for smoking | −0.585 * | 1 | −0.193 * |
RSVs for obesity | 0.421 * | −0.193 * | 1 |
ITALIAN | |||
RSVs for alcohol | 1 | 0.098 | −0.452 * |
RSVs for smoking | 0.098 | 1 | −0.157 * |
RSVs for obesity | −0.452 * | −0.157 * | 1 |
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Fabbian, F.; Rodríguez-Muñoz, P.M.; López-Carrasco, J.d.l.C.; Cappadona, R.; Rodríguez-Borrego, M.A.; López-Soto, P.J. Google Trends on Obesity, Smoking and Alcoholism: Global and Country-Specific Interest. Healthcare 2021, 9, 190. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9020190
Fabbian F, Rodríguez-Muñoz PM, López-Carrasco JdlC, Cappadona R, Rodríguez-Borrego MA, López-Soto PJ. Google Trends on Obesity, Smoking and Alcoholism: Global and Country-Specific Interest. Healthcare. 2021; 9(2):190. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9020190
Chicago/Turabian StyleFabbian, Fabio, Pedro Manuel Rodríguez-Muñoz, Juan de la Cruz López-Carrasco, Rosaria Cappadona, María Aurora Rodríguez-Borrego, and Pablo Jesús López-Soto. 2021. "Google Trends on Obesity, Smoking and Alcoholism: Global and Country-Specific Interest" Healthcare 9, no. 2: 190. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9020190