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Volume 114, Nº 4, April 2020

   

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20190768

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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.