Table 6.
Precursor search categories and queries associated with the analyzed medical conditions (at FDR rate of 0.05). Queries related to interest in specific people afflicted with the medical condition were manually removed from the list.
| Condition | Precursor behaviors | Category or query | Relative hazard |
| Pregnancy | |||
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Pregnancy symptoms | Query | 3.33 |
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Birth control | Category | 2.74 |
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Fertility | Category | 2.58 |
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Pregnancy with abortive outcome | Category | 2.07 |
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Medical emergencies | Category | 1.84 |
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Teen pregnancy in film and television | Category | 1.59 |
| Allergy | |||
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Petco | Query | 3.88 |
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Pet stores | Category | 3.34 |
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Crops originating from the Americas | Category | 2.88 |
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PetSmart | Query | 2.07 |
| Eating disorder | |||
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Image search | Category | 8.14 |
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Bipolar spectrum | Category | 8.01 |
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Depression | Category | 6.66 |
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Barnes and Noble (Web-based book store) | Query | 4.54 |
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English child actors | Category | 3.85 |
| Herpes simplex | |||
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WorldStarHipHop (multimedia website) | Query | 6.12 |
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Web-based real estate companies | Category | 3.50 |
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Real estate valuation | Category | 3.50 |
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Military brats (children of parents serving full time in the US Armed forces) | Category | 2.52 |
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Plenty of Fish (dating website) | Query | 2.34 |
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Yahoo | Query | 2.13 |
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Zillow (real estate website) | Query | 2.06 |
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Query | 2.03 | |
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Walmart | Query | 1.94 |
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Redtube | Query | 1.49 |
| HIV | |||
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Xtube | Query | 5.50 |
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Same sex online dating | Category | 3.54 |
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Adam4Adam | Query | 3.42 |
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Video game franchises | Category | 3.14 |
| Myocardial infarction | |||
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Fast-food hamburger restaurants | Category | 5.28 |
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Theme restaurants | Category | 4.22 |
| Post-traumatic stress disorder | |||
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Homelessness | Query | 14.52 |
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Rape | Query | 14.52 |