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. 2015 Jan 27;17(1):e29. doi: 10.2196/jmir.4082

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

Pregnancy symptoms Query 3.33

Birth control Category 2.74

Fertility Category 2.58

Pregnancy with abortive outcome Category 2.07

Medical emergencies Category 1.84

Teen pregnancy in film and television Category 1.59
Allergy

Petco Query 3.88

Pet stores Category 3.34

Crops originating from the Americas Category 2.88

PetSmart Query 2.07
Eating disorder

Image search Category 8.14

Bipolar spectrum Category 8.01

Depression Category 6.66

Barnes and Noble (Web-based book store) Query 4.54

English child actors Category 3.85
Herpes simplex

WorldStarHipHop (multimedia website) Query 6.12

Web-based real estate companies Category 3.50

Real estate valuation Category 3.50

Military brats (children of parents serving full time in the US Armed forces) Category 2.52

Plenty of Fish (dating website) Query 2.34

Yahoo Query 2.13

Zillow (real estate website) Query 2.06

Google Query 2.03

Walmart Query 1.94

Redtube Query 1.49
HIV

Xtube Query 5.50

Same sex online dating Category 3.54

Adam4Adam Query 3.42

Video game franchises Category 3.14
Myocardial infarction

Fast-food hamburger restaurants Category 5.28

Theme restaurants Category 4.22
Post-traumatic stress disorder

Homelessness Query 14.52

Rape Query 14.52