Table 1.
Characteristics of the study sample: tweet data and user data.
| Disease | Message count, n | Correction factor, % | Corrected message count, n | Users, n | |
| Cancer | |||||
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Breast cancer | 39,169 | 100 | 39,156 | 19,960 |
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Leukemia | 9129 | 95.1 | 8682 | 5855 |
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Lung cancer | 5745 | 92.6 | 5317 | 3719 |
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Lymphoma | 5276 | 93.4 | 4927 | 2758 |
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Ovarian cancer | 3063 | 99.9 | 3060 | 1212 |
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Pancreatic cancer | 3231 | 100 | 3231 | 1189 |
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Prostate cancer | 4487 | 100 | 4487 | 2311 |
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Skin cancer | 7866 | 99.9 | 7859 | 4048 |
| Chronic lung disease | |||||
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Asthma | 18,082 | 92.6 | 16,742 | 10,185 |
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 2137 | 77.1 | 1648 | 726 |
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Diabetes | 41,615 | 96.6 | 40,217 | 16,321 |
| Heart disease | |||||
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Heart disease | 14,740 | 92.7 | 13,669 | 7992 |
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Hypertension | 18,404 | 93.7 | 17,245 | 12,203 |
| Stroke | 53,858 | 15.1 | 8141 | 34,298 | |