Bragazzi Nicola Luigi, Dini Guglielmo, Toletone Alessandra, Brigo Francesco, Durando Paolo
School of Public Health, Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Via Antonio Pastore 1, Genoa 16132, Italy.
Department of Health Sciences, Postgraduate School in Occupational Medicine, University of Genoa and Occupational Medicine Unit, I.R.C.C.S. University Hospital San Martino - IST National Institute for Cancer Research, Genoa, Italy.
Data Brief. 2016 Nov 13;10:457-464. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.11.021. eCollection 2017 Feb.
This article reports data concerning silicosis-related web-activities using Google Trends (GT) capturing the Internet behavior in the USA for the period 2004-2010. GT-generated data were then compared with the most recent available epidemiological data of silicosis mortality obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the same study period. Statistically significant correlations with epidemiological data of silicosis (=0.805, -value <0.05) and other related web searches were found. The temporal trend well correlated with the epidemiological data, as well as the geospatial distribution of the web-activities with the geographic epidemiology of silicosis.
本文报告了与矽肺病相关的网络活动数据,这些数据是利用谷歌趋势(GT)获取的2004年至2010年期间美国的互联网行为。然后将GT生成的数据与同一研究期间从疾病控制与预防中心获得的矽肺病死亡率的最新可用流行病学数据进行比较。发现与矽肺病的流行病学数据(=0.805,-值<0.05)以及其他相关网络搜索存在统计学上的显著相关性。时间趋势与流行病学数据以及网络活动的地理空间分布与矽肺病的地理流行病学密切相关。