Volume 114, Nº 4, April 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20190768
VIEWPOINT
Internet Search Trends and Regional Mortality Tendencies: The Case of Oral Anticoagulants and Stroke
Roberto Muniz Ferreira
Ísis da Capela Pinheiro
João Roquette Fleury da Rocha
Figure 1 – Annual ischemic stroke-related deaths and mean Google Trends scores for anticoagulants. After 2011, an increase in the online popularity of rivaroxaban was accompanied by a decrease in the number of ischemic stroke related-deaths in Brazil.
Keywords: Stroke/prevention and control; Myocardial Ischemia/prevention and control; Pharmaceutical Services, Online/trends; Anticoagulants/therapeutic use; Varfarin; Dabigatran; Rivaroxaban; Mortality/trends.