Table 7.
Facebook “Likes” by health condition and content—General Support, Patient Support, and Information/Awareness.
| Google Insights ranking | Health condition | Total Likes | General support, n (%) |
Patient support, n (%) |
Information, n (%) |
| 1 | cancer | 10,228,611 | 3,996,203 (39.07) | 372,880 (3.65) | 905,348 (8.85) |
| 2 | diabetes | 986,868 | 207,285 (21.00) | 71,482 (7.24) | 559,877 (56.73) |
| 3 | stomach | 28,620 | 6466 (22.59) | 2022 (7.06) | 8439 (29.49) |
| 4 | herpes | 46,778 | 32 (0.07) | 0 (0.00) | 3772 (8.06) |
| 5 | back pain | 15,165 | 0 (0.00) | 1567 (10.33) | 3662 (24.15) |
| 6 | human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) | 249,468 | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 28,815 (11.55) |
| 7 | blood pressure | 9711 | 0 (0.00) | 992 (10.22) | 3868 (39.83) |
| 8 | thyroid | 75,539 | 0 (0.00) | 4700 (6.22) | 22,761 (30.13) |
| 9 | breast cancer | 9,055,455 | 3,537,360 (39.06) | 503,709 (5.56) | 888,712 (9.81) |
| 10 | arthritis | 106,565 | 2124 (1.99) | 30,204 (28.34) | 42,929 (40.28) |
| 11 | acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) | 1,014,419 | 214,308 (21.13) | 0 (0.00) | 19,297 (1.90) |
| 12 | lupus | 241,286 | 231 (0.10) | 37,287 (15.45) | 79,861 (33.10) |
| 13 | diarrhea | 6215 | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 1433 (23.06) |
| 14 | pneumonia | 6952 | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 4455 (64.08) |
| 15 | spine | 38,213 | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 22,885 (59.89) |
| 16 | flu symptoms | 43 | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) |
| 17 | human papillomavirus (HPV) | 5371 | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 121 (2.25) |
| 18 | asthma | 24,890 | 319 (1.28) | 1460 (5.87) | 7927 (31.85) |
| 19 | anemia | 11,887 | 0 (0.00) | 101 (0.85) | 1240 (10.43) |
| 20 | stroke | 39,577 | 0 (0.00) | 32,502 (82.12) | 0 (0.00) |
| Total | 22,191,633 | 7,964,328 (35.87) | 1,058,906 (4.77) | 2,605,402 (11.73) | |