Department of Cardiology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Am Heart J. 2021 Jan;231:157-159. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2020.09.005. Epub 2020 Sep 30.
During the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a reduction in hospital admissions for acute myocardial infarction. This manuscript presents the analysis of Google Trends meta-data and shows a marked spike in search volume for chest pain that is strongly correlated with COVID-19 case numbers in the United States. This raises a concern that fear of contracting COVID-19 may be leading patients to self-triage using internet searches.
在 COVID-19 大流行期间,因急性心肌梗死而住院的人数有所减少。本文分析了谷歌趋势(Google Trends)元数据,结果表明,与美国 COVID-19 病例数密切相关的胸痛搜索量明显增加。这引发了人们的担忧,即对感染 COVID-19 的恐惧可能导致患者通过互联网搜索来自我分诊。