TY - JOUR T1 - Interest regarding CDC-specified risk factors of severe COVID-19: a Google Trends analysis JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.congress-2021.PA532 VL - 58 IS - suppl 65 SP - PA532 AU - Miguel Trigueiro Rocha Barbosa AU - Cláudia Sabina AU - Rita Aguiar AU - Mário Morais-Almeida Y1 - 2021/09/05 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/58/suppl_65/PA532.abstract N2 - Introduction: Google Trends (GT) may provide deep insight into population behavior and health-related phenomena, monitoring online queries and using big data.Objective: GT analysis of GT topics related to the risk factors of severe COVID-19 described by the United States of America Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Factors included asthma, diabetes, hypertension, kidney failure, liver failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), obesity, immunodeficiency, and elderly.Methods: A visual analysis was conducted of the relative search volume (RSV) over time lines in the past 4 years (May 2016 till May 2020), and the RSV timelines of the searches related to Coronavirus in the first 4 months of the pandemic (11th February 2020 till 11th June 2020). In addition, we compared the worldwide median-RSV of the GT topics in the first months of the pandemic with the median-RSV in the same period of 2019. A Wilcoxon-test was used for statistical analysis. The following regions were selected to the GT search: Worldwide, USA, Brazil, Germany and Spain.Results: Asthma, COPD and Immunodeficiency had a visual peak and a significant increase in median-RSV.Conclusions: Asthma gained more online interest in the first two months of the pandemic, above other risk factors that have been continuously stated as important risk factors, such as advanced age, obesity and diabetes.FootnotesCite this article as: European Respiratory Journal 2021; 58: Suppl. 65, PA532.This abstract was presented at the 2021 ERS International Congress, in session “Prediction of exacerbations in patients with COPD”.This is an ERS International Congress abstract. No full-text version is available. Further material to accompany this abstract may be available at www.ers-education.org (ERS member access only). ER -