Table 8.
Facebook “Likes” by health condition and content—Wikipedia, Marketing, Other, and Blank.
| Google Insights ranking | Health condition | Total Likes | Wikipedia, n (%) |
Marketing, n (%) |
Other, n (%) |
Blank, n (%) |
| 1 | cancer | 10,228,611 | 20,428 (0.20) | 4,932,796 (48.23) | 0 (0.00) | 956 (0.01) |
| 2 | diabetes | 986,868 | 36,875 (3.74) | 110,731 (11.22) | 618 (0.06) | 0 (0.00) |
| 3 | stomach | 28,620 | 2232 (7.80) | 2868 (10.02) | 5387 (18.82) | 1206 (4.21) |
| 4 | herpes | 46,778 | 1412 (3.02) | 40,495 (86.57) | 810 (1.73) | 257 (0.55) |
| 5 | back pain | 15,165 | 2726 (17.98) | 4701 (31.00) | 364 (2.40) | 2145 (14.14) |
| 6 | human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) | 249,468 | 8966 (3.59) | 211,687 (84.86) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) |
| 7 | blood pressure | 9711 | 1320 (13.59) | 3023 (31.13) | 504 (5.19) | 4 (0.04) |
| 8 | thyroid | 75,539 | 9313 (12.33) | 19,883 (26.32) | 18,850 (24.95) | 32 (0.04) |
| 9 | breast cancer | 9,055,455 | 1757 (0.02) | 4,123,917 (45.54) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) |
| 10 | arthritis | 106,565 | 9021 (8.47) | 17,782 (16.69) | 4505 (4.23) | 0 (0.00) |
| 11 | acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) | 1,014,419 | 25,327 (2.50) | 751,491 (74.08) | 3996 (0.39) | 0 (0.00) |
| 12 | lupus | 241,286 | 0 (0.00) | 114,832 (47.59) | 9075 (3.76) | 0 (0.00) |
| 13 | diarrhea | 6215 | 2436 (39.20) | 321 (5.16) | 1956 (31.47) | 69 (1.11) |
| 14 | pneumonia | 6952 | 1705 (24.53) | 605 (8.70) | 167 (2.40) | 20 (0.29) |
| 15 | spine | 38,213 | 0 (0.00) | 15,328 (40.11) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) |
| 16 | flu symptoms | 43 | 13 (30.23) | 27 (62.79) | 1 (2.33) | 2 (4.65) |
| 17 | human papillomavirus (HPV) | 5371 | 790 (14.71) | 4329 (80.60) | 7 (0.13) | 124 (2.31) |
| 18 | asthma | 24,890 | 8279 (33.26) | 5134 (20.63) | 1771 (7.12) | 0 (0.00) |
| 19 | anemia | 11,887 | 4103 (34.52) | 6273 (52.77) | 170 (1.43) | 0 (0.00) |
| 20 | stroke | 39,577 | 2129 (5.38) | 4946 (12.50) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) |
| Total | 22,191,633 | 138,832 (0.63) | 10,371,169 (46.71) | 48,181 (0.22) | 4815 (0.02) | |