TY - JOUR T1 - Assessing population interest in interstitial lung diseases in the United States using Google trends JF - ERJ Open Research JO - erjor DO - 10.1183/23120541.00092-2022 SP - 00092-2022 AU - Niranjan Jeganathan AU - Essam K. Nagori AU - Matheni Sathananthan Y1 - 2022/01/01 UR - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/early/2022/05/05/23120541.00092-2022.abstract N2 - The term interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) encompasses several different conditions that are characterized by inflammation and/or fibrosis of the pulmonary interstitium [1]. ILDs are associated with significant morbidity and mortality [2]. Patients receive a significant amount of health information on the internet and adoption of the internet has been steadily increasing [3]. Google is the most popular search engine with over 90% of the total online searches in the U.S. performed utilizing it [4]. An estimated 7% of all internet searches on Google are health-related, corresponding to 70,000 health-related searches occurring each minute [5]. In this study, we used Google's analysis tool, Google Trends (GT) [6], and the objective was to evaluate the public interest in ILD compared to common pulmonary diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer.FootnotesThis manuscript has recently been accepted for publication in the ERJ Open Research. It is published here in its accepted form prior to copyediting and typesetting by our production team. After these production processes are complete and the authors have approved the resulting proofs, the article will move to the latest issue of the ERJOR online. Please open or download the PDF to view this article.Conflict of interest: Niranjan Jeganathan has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Essam K. Nagori has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Matheni Sathananthan has nothing to disclose. ER -