TY - JOUR T1 - Assessing population interest in interstitial lung diseases in the USA using Google Trends JF - ERJ Open Research JO - erjor DO - 10.1183/23120541.00092-2022 VL - 8 IS - 2 SP - 00092-2022 AU - Niranjan Jeganathan AU - Essam K. Nagori AU - Matheni Sathananthan Y1 - 2022/04/01 UR - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/8/2/00092-2022.abstract N2 - The term interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) encompasses several different conditions that are characterised 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 USA performed utilising 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 with common pulmonary diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonry disease (COPD) and lung cancer.Google Trends is a useful tool for evaluating the public interest in interstitial lung diseases (ILD). The interest in ILD is much lower compared to lung cancer although both conditions are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. https://bit.ly/38QzPce ER -