Anomalous asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Google Trends patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sousa-Pinto, Bernardo; Heffler, Enrico; Antó, Aram; Czarlewski, Wienczyslawa; Bedbrook, Anna; Gemicioglu, Bilun; Canonica, G. Walter; Antó, Josep M.; Fonseca, João Almeida; Bousquet, Jean

doi:10.1186/s13601-020-00352-9

Clinical and Translational Allergy

Table 1 Observed and predicted maximum values for Google Trends (GT) on five chronic diseases (January–May 2020)

From: Anomalous asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Google Trends patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic

	Asthma		COPD		Diabetes mellitus		Hypertension		Crohn’s disease
	Maximum GT observed value (2020)	Maximum GT predicted value (2020)	Maximum GT observed value (2020)	Maximum GT predicted value (2020)	Maximum GT observed value (2020)	Maximum GT predicted value (2020)	Maximum GT observed value (2020)	Maximum GT predicted value (2020)	Maximum GT observed value (2020)	Maximum GT predicted value (2020)
Europe
Austria	67	33	42	38	73	94	45	49	21	28
Belgium	67	32	33	24	83	91	41	47	28	32
Bulgaria	30	28	17	18	93	100	78	78	11	19
Czech Republic	37	35	30	18	87	92	32	35	30	43
Denmark	87	30	26	31	84	93	13	14	18	16
Finland	76	38	15	17	75	86	31	28	18	20
France	100	27	24	13	68	61	51	44	28	31
Germany	87	30	53	39	79	89	41	44	18	24
Greece	52	20	27	15	86	100	34	37	17	34
Hungary	34	20	100	14	64	68	50	47	16	20
Ireland	100	36	45	31	84	78	49	43	29	28
Italy	41	29	11	12	100	32	74	68	32	33
Netherlands	64	22	27	23	64	82	34	37	14	18
Norway	100	35	17	27	58	70	49	32	20	25
Poland	28	18	11	9	70	79	25	33	20	12
Portugal	50	25	9	15	59	75	28	31	16	24
Romania	19	22	7	10	100	97	42	31	6	11
Russia	26	32	9	10	68	97	34	41	7	10
Spain	62	21	15	23	57	62	66	67	17	59
Sweden	41	15	14	15	100	44	37	20	7	8
Switzerland	100	26	28	22	56	59	62	35	14	21
Ukraine	24	25	10	8	91	100	39	47	11	11
United Kingdom	100	13	35	13	58	43	30	18	12	14
Africa
Egypt	16	8	3	4	87	86	13	15	69	4
South Africa	32	22	10	11	70	72	75	55	9	9
North America
Canada	69	24	31	24	96	100	47	55	18	24
USA	60	28	28	27	99	100	61	66	16	22
Latin America
Argentina	21	10	7	9	30	37	30	32	3	100
Brazil	52	29	11	9	87	96	72	65	8	29
Chile	49	28	12	19	69	87	73	74	8	12
Colombia	26	25	35	20	52	63	100	81	4	25
Ecuador	23	23	12	12	56	71	75	58	9	8
Mexico	19	21	12	12	76	87	69	67	4	5
Peru	42	33	7	9	76	89	74	60	5	6
Venezuela	31	32	13	12	54	63	71	71	5	10
Asia
Hong Kong	25	33	14	16	87	100	47	63	8	14
India	24	20	10	11	78	79	37	34	3	6
Indonesia	53	54	7	10	95	100	93	100	2	2
Iran	78	82	1	2	20	72	16	19	45	4
Israel	27	22	10	11	85	98	23	29	23	25
Japan	70	48	12	9	90	94	29	34	6	11
Malaysia	36	45	11	13	90	100	71	80	4	5
Pakistan	36	42	17	21	100	100	69	77	8	7
Philippines	87	61	20	23	90	100	100	91	6	9
Saudi Arabia	13	16	3	4	86	84	9	12	46	5
Singapore	20	22	7	10	61	81	37	86	4	7
South Korea	17	23	12	13	80	93	29	45	32	13
Taiwan	27	29	9	13	95	100	59	68	4	5
Thailand	18	21	10	12	96	100	58	62	3	3
Turkey	65	35	100	26	65	79	46	31	7	10
UAE	22	21	6	9	64	82	30	34	12	9
Vietnam	18	20	6	9	100	89	34	36	2	2
Pacific
Australia	77	53	28	25	88	94	46	47	17	24
New Zealand	91	42	39	27	76	100	34	52	35	28

Maximum predicted values correspond to the maximum values of the upper bound of the 95% confidence intervals for predicted asthma GT. Numbers in italic indicate cases in which maximum GT observed values were higher than maximum predicted values
COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, UAE United Arab Emirates, USA United States of America

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